Made by: Soviet Consul The Shanghai Municipal. Police, hoaded.by Chief Detective Inspector P, Givens, surrounded the offices} of the Far Eastern Bank, better Aeiown as the Dalbank, at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning and; producing a search warrant issued by the Protional Court, entered the building and for four hours made a detailed search of the drawers, count books, and practic the papers in the bank, At 7 o'clock on the same night they returned and placed a seal of.the Special Provisional Court on the door.
Although the incident caused. much excitement, it-was so quietly managed that there were practical) no outward indications of what w going. on inside.
Although the police on Sunday refused, to give apy, official statement about the raid, it was learned that in the party of police which entered. the. building, were, besides the chief detective, a Captain Chow, representing. General, Yang. Hu,' the Jocal Defence Commissioner, several well-known White Russians in tho} employ of the police department, several plain-clothes officers in the office of the Criminal Intelligence Department, and uniformed foreign officers.
As soon as all avenues of, exit and entrance into the bank" had een closed by the police, Inspector Givens entered and presented the search warrant and took charge of the operations.
Taken by Surprise No resistance was offered by the officials or other employees of the bank and the right of the police to] search was inno Way questioned. Evidently the bank officials had been taken completely off their guard. Yet there was such an absence of Datbor that a_visitor to. the bank nat. knowing. the police by sight, would not have known anything ceptional occurring. Business) Was not interrupted, Until between two and three o'clock in the afternoon a systematic search was made under the direction of the Chief Inspector, who directed his Russian assistants where to search and for what to look.
Tt is understood thit none of the Papers were either destroyed or removed from the bank, but a detailed account was made and it being in-doxad of all the bank's paper It is said that the drawers of the desks were frst gone. through ani all thei documents noted. The ageount books were also examined carefully, after which the safes were opened and gone through three]
Besides these all the private accounts, current accounts, ete, were thoroughly inspected and copy rade of the bank's eypher.
was first reported that the raid was instigated by Mr. Huang Fu, Mayor of Grea hai, but on Saturday his secretary gave out the statement that this was wrong. Interviewed by journalist Saturday night, Mr. Quo Tal. the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, declared that he was not back of the raid. The Commissioner said that the first that he knew of the affair was after the Soviet Consular officials had protested against the action. In this protest they are said to have branded it as an "out age."
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