Story of Russian Gang of Criminals Victimizing Tsingtao: Some Said to Have Come to Shanghai: Foreigners the Usual Victims: Bold Burglaries Follow Murder Tsingtao, Aug. 18. pretences, having represented hima Teingtao's unprecedented crime! cit to b¢ am agent of am American wave still goes on. Close upon the! oil company and on the strength Kees of the murder of Mr Car!|of thnt having obtained loans from Fisher have come bold burglaries at gullible foreigners and. Chinese, to, the tailoring shop of Mr. Pater it is said, also a member of the Haensel, right on Shantang Road, Harbin fraternity. Tela the main thoroughfare, and. at the! moreover, that he is. the "master residence of Mr. Fervell Adams, ely mind of he gan two squares away, There have also] qyingtao has simply sweltered in been cases of pocket-picking at the he heat the past two weeks. Never races and in shore." Never before before has the summer season been 80 prosperous. Every hotel and victimized such as this year. pension is filled to overflowing and It is rumoured that an associa-'Tsingtao seems to be the mecca for tion of robbers, known as the "Har-vacationists from all over the Far bin Society of 1,000," is now strony East. This year, however, Tsingly represented in Tsingtao, a number tao's traditional mild summer failed of its members having slipped into to hold good, In addition there have the city undetected bythe police. been many' torrential rains, The Thoto by Kobsa
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