The raid was the result of information furnished to Police Inspector Kong Sai Wing who at once went to the Central Police Station and reported the matter to the Police Commissioner Tang Shi-tang. The Police Commissioner ut two detectives, Li Hon Ying ud Kung Hing-ching, in civil clothes to investigate. By means of some very adroit work the detectives. gained entrance into the den and say what was going on. The counterfeiters were entirely _unaware that their visitors were Government officers and accepted them as bona fide merchants coming to bay bad money from them. The detectives then went back and reported what they had seen to the Police Commissioner, who at once gave the order for the raid.
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