Owing to the trained observance of an alert foreign constable, the police of the Gordon Road station seized eight cases of artillery shellt and eighteen cases of pistol ammunition shortly after nine o'clock on Saturday morning, just as they were about to be loaded on a boat in the Soochow Creek at Ferry Road. Five Chinese were arrested, and two foreigners, one of whom accompanied the shipment, were taken to the Gordon Road station and there questioned though not arrested. The Chinese will be brought up for a hearing before the Mixed Court this morning.
At nine o'clock Saturday morning @ boat was moored in the Soochow Creek at the foot of Ferry Road, and on the deck stood a Chinese sailor in full uniform. A foreign constable, attached to the Gordon Road station, who happened to visit the creek-side while patrolling his beat, noticed the junk and immediately thought it was rather a strange thing that a Chinese bluejacket in uniform should be on a stationary boat in such @ location, so he asked the man what he was doing there.
"Waiting for some guns for the Arsenal," was the sailor's reply, and anything about "guns" in these times is sufficient to set anyone into action, especially " foreign police: man, The oticer at once telephon ed to the station and Inspector Young was on the spot in a very short time. While waiting for the Inspector to arrive the constable saw approaching from the south loaded four-wheeled cart drawa by pony. Accompanying the cart were five Chinese, and walking in the rear were two foreigners. While the cart was still at a distance one of the foreigners turned back, but the other continued with the cart until it was stopped.
"You had better look and replied the foreigner when he wat asked what was in the cart, but the police did not need his advice. A burried examination was sufficient to satisfy the officers that the cart contained a number of wooden
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