The French police were busy during the week-end looking after the gamblers and opium dealers of the Concession. The first of a series of raids took place at No. 107 Avenue Edward VII, where as many as 25 people were found gambling in a room which the police discovered in spite of "its excellent camouflage. The players seemed to think that in their well lit and comfortably appointed premises they were safe to carry on their games of chance, but even the fact that they were three storeys up did not prove sufficient protec tion. The entry of the police took them entirely by surprise, and the authorities had no trouble in effecting arrests and seizing the stakes, amounting to $203 and the gaming paraphernalia. The gamblers were liberated on $5 bail each, while the master of ceremonies, who was brought up at the Mixed Court, was fined $300, the Court ordering confiscation of the material seized.
At 4 a.m, on Sunday the police also descended on a house at No. 302 Boulevard des deux Repub-cliques, where gamblers to the number of 29 and stakes to the value were seized. The gamblers berated on bail of $2, while at the Mixed Court the tenant of the premises was fined $200, with confiscation of his gambling apparatus,
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