'A Chinese was charged before Judge Hsiung and Mr. Stevens, Senior Consul's Deputy, in the Pronal Court, on Thursday morning, fon four charies of altering bank Rotes of the $10 denomination, issued the Mercantile Bank of India, and substituting "$100" for "$10 and "Shanghai" for "Hongkong."
Complainants in the ease were the Indo-China Steam Navigation Ca, the Oriental Hotel, and the Sun Sun Hotel, "The Communist menace in Shang. hai is growing to proportions which] toxlay onused the Chinese press to] iscloxe the renewed activity of score of micro of prominent Bolsh vis, alleged to have come here the Inst month and to he carey jon secret operations in the so-call Russian Club, on Haskell Road. his place, hed as a vent: fable nest of Red Propaganda _and Come Mr. A. G. Jacobs of the L-C.S.N, ©o,, testified that, on the attern: of November 1, accused came to office and tendered a $100 note for passage to Tsingtao. The shraf suspected that there was something! wrong, and, when the note was taken Back to accused, it way found that the had disappeared, ess. des. cribed how the words had been changed.
'Mr. G. IL Wright, prosecuting for Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Ca. described' the alterations as being "extremely clever."
Mr. Jacobs, continuing, said that when he went aboard the str. Kung-we that evening, he found that accused had tendered a §100 note for passage to Kiukiang and received his change. Witness was on guard, and inspected the note carefully, He found that it was similar to the one handed in to his office earlier in the day. Questioned as to where he Got the notes, accused said that a friend who owed him $200 gave them '0 him. He did not know the whereabouts of this man. The police were!
Accoring to Chinese} intort has been reopened, "It is reported that daily plotting} against organized government down and in the includes several Jupanese and Koreans who are known to be high up in Red he main business of these agents, it is alleged, is to collect secret information from official sources of foreign governments—British, American, French and so on—regarding anti-communist measures. In a word, they are paid spies.
"One of these operators is said to have stated confidently that they already are familiar with governmental plans to deal with Communism, including plans of the Chinese' Government, as they have bribed officials to secure documents.
This alleged-statement is discounted by authority
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