Wheel, Money and Chips Seized in North Szechuen Road Raiding a shop at 104 North Szechuen Road at 9.20 o'etock on Friday night a party of police under command of Major Wainwright made a good haul, taking to th station $7,840 in cash, as well a numerous chips, cheque-books, a roulette wheel and all the accom:
equipment. Opium and were also found in the house, Having obtained a Mixed Court and Portuguese Consular warrant, with U, 8. Court auction, the party had no difficulty raiding the den, Of the 12 arrested, four have been detained without bail, while the remainder were permitted to secure bail at $50, They will appear at the Mixed Court this morning.
There was much crime in Shange hai over the week-oad, On Friday: morning just after seven o'clock, kang of five men, three of whom carried pistols, raided premises in an alleyway off North Szechuen Road. After thoroughly cowing the inmates and herding them into. a room, they made off with $1,000 in cash and valuables, At 10am. 10 men called on a contractor the Wayside district and invited him to a tea shop. He went with them. At the shop they demanded that he pay them $500. On refusal and. subsequent conversation being. fruitless, they lragged him into the rond and heat him, Managing to escape, the frightened victim ran off with all specd but one of the band fired four times at him. Since then three men have been arrested, who are alleged (0 belong to the rang.
At8.30 pam. on Friday four armed n stopped a pedestrian on Point wd, near Paotingfu Road, They took $40 from him, No arrests.
On Saturday Det-Sub-Insp. MacDermott, attached to. Hongkew Station, arrested three Chinese in the French Concession, whom charged with having counterfeited bank notes, A large amount of equipment was also found, Two other armed robberies com= plete the toll of crime for the end, Ir is reported that another consignment of 500 cases of opium is expected to arrive in Shanghai early this month, according to the "Shanghai Journal of Commerce."—Thi stock is said to be from Pei Soon after its arrival at Woosung harbour it will Kuochongmiao under a gunboat, AccEPTING an invitation from the Department of Railways and a group of Japanese interested in the transportation systems of Japan, Dr. Emory R. Johnson, Dean of the College of Eeonomy and Commerce in the University of Pennsylvania, an expert on transportation, was' ex-reeted to arrive on Monday, by the str. President MeKin! The steamer will also bring Dr. Olde, who ly keenly interested in old Jupanere art and architecture,
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