In connection with the charges! against J. J. Alvarez and J. Si tana of operating public gambling houses or of permitting public gambling houses to be operated on premises occupied by them, at 151C Bubbling Well Road and 6 Yates Road, und the subsequent orders by the Provisional Court for the holding of all the paraphernalia seized in the raids together with the at~ tachment of about $60,000, some of which was seized during the raids and the balance in Shanghai bunks, fan application was made in the Provisional Court, on Tuesday, to Judge Liang by Capt, W. G. Clarke, Director of Criminal Intelligence, for the withdrawal of all proceed: ings and the cancellation of the Court Orders relating to the charges.
Capt. W. G. Clarke's appl: reads as follows:
"Application is hereby molle for the withdrawal of proceedings pend. ing in the Provisional Court age the gambling dens at 151C Bubbling. Well Road, 20 Love Lane and 5A Yates Road also the cancellation of orders on the Commercial Bank of China, sri examination of the docu. monte seized on the premises named having disclosed that the owners!
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