Information was received by the River Police on the 11th instant to the effect that the N.D.L, steamer Holstein had four stowaways on board when she arrived in Shanghai. Police immediately went on board and took them under arrest. At the Mixed Court the following morning before Mr. Mead and the Chinese Assessor, the four prisoners were brought up, but were remanded to be dealt with at the Senior Court. They were again charged last Friday afternoon at the Mixed Court by the Russian Assessor with leaving Siberia without passports or passage money and travelling from Vladivostok to Shanghai. They produced passports, however, in court, which were found to lack the usual visa, hut they were unable to pay their passage money.
Four nationalities were represented, one being Russian, one a Pole, one a Lett, and one a Czecho-Slovak. A representative of the Hebrew Association offered to he responsible for one of the prisoners, who was a Jew, if the Court would release him. This the Court agreed to do if the passage money were forthcoming; otherwise, it was decreed that the four prisoners return to Vladivostok at the expense of N.D.L. Ca.
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