The word "alleged" is used in this connexion because, although the men carried what purported to be revolvers with which they had threatened the lives of innocent citizens, they were really not armed at all. Their "weapons" were simply imitations of the simplest sort, and imitations made not in Germany, but in Shanghai. One of weapons,"" and the cleverest, is a home-made thing of tin, being nothing else than one piece of metal cut from an oil tin and rolled into " tube to represent the barrel
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