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On Thursday, a Chinese newspaper called "Microscope" printed an ac~ count of extraordinary proceedings alleged lately to have been carrier on at a pleasure garden on the Nat tao side some 20 i from Shanghai. The writer of the article presum: ably refers to foreigners in his description of "gentlemen with top hats and walking sticks" who motor from Shanghai and, arriving at the rendezvous, alight and proceed into the garden" with heavy tread." This ast delicate descriptive touch sug gests Police Constables, though, we Delieve, the majority of them do not ordinarily sport "toppers."
The proceedings within the gar-don, where, itis ¢aid, Russian women. are engaged to dance, are described in such detail as would make a mem-dor of the Moral Welfare League weep. The story is fantastic enough, but there may be some truth in it, Perhaps the authorities will make discreet inquiries, espec= laily as, Intterly, a notice is said to have been displayed: "Foreigners only admitted."
Accused to Be Tried by Naval Court.
The- two men, Pierre Renuck and Jean George, of the Angers, were brought up at the French Mixed Court on Tuesday, and an order was made that the volvers and ammunition be bande over to the French police headquarters, that a fall report of the case be forwarded to the French Con sulate, and that a date be fixed for trial of the—nccused by a Naval Court on board a French man-of-war.
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