It may be noted, as a coincidence or not, that the number of shellt seized on Saturday (390) corres ponds within ten of the number missing in connexion with the Niel sen case in the French Concession.
It is recalled that the chauffeur employed by Nielsen testified before the French Mixed Court that he} had taken to the house at 44 French Sicawei Road cases supposed to have contained 600 shells and that only 200 were found in the pond: in Nielsen's garden. The remaining 400 shells have been looked for by the police of the two settlements since the sensational discovery it in Nielsen premises, and the question is, Have the Municipal Police now found them t The Hong List discloses that Dr. H. Limr er is German Vice-Consul at Tientsin, while the name Mr. F. Sommer appears as of the firm of Telge & Schroeter. Tientsin, and also a8 Vice Consul for Norway. H. Thomson, of No. 1 Vu Yuen Road, Burg 8B 011M 8.044. connected with Schnal Ca., Shanghai.
From an authoritative Chinese source which, for obvious reasons cannot be disclosed but which is a source that has always proved reliable, it is learned that the local Chinese naval officials early last week received @ telegram from the Board of Navy, Peking, instructing them to receive four guns and 49 certain amount of ammunition to fit each. They were to receive, the instructions stated, two.37mm. machine guns and two 53 min. field guns, from the Tientsin firm of Telge & Schroeter.
Shortly after the receipt -of the telegram Mr. F, Sommer, who is apparently manager for the Ties tsin firm in question, arrived in Shanghai with his compradore, and he is a guest at the Grand Hotel Kalee. On Thursday of last week Mr. Sommer called at Admiralty House, the local naval headquarters at the Kiangnan Dock, which, though adjacent, to the Arsen no connexion with it being nal separate department. There at the naval headquarters Mr. Sommer arranged to deliver the four guns and the ammunition to an agent to be sent by the naval authorities. The delivery was to be made at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, launch and an officer and three uniformed men being sent to Ferry Road, on the Soochow Creek.
The launch returned to the Dock having found nothing to do as the Shanghai Municipal Police had seized the cargo which the launch was to tow. In all probabi the Chinese permit, which Sommer possessed, was " genuine one, but an interesting point is brought to light and that is this:
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