Swindlers Who Impose on Hankow's Generosity Prom Out OWN Contesrownexr Hankow, Oct. 25, The Hankow foreign community is noted for its generosity and it has probably been rooked as_man times as any other community the Far East by Armenian, Syi Kussian and Chinese collectors for charitable institutions of all sorts, A blind man recently got his fare Chinese rates from Hankow to Shanshai and from Hankow to Changsha from two different pore sons. A few days later he tried to raise capital we start a small sweet, stall in Mankow, but unfortunately. one of the tioned hig deed of charity, Now Messrs. Tang and Mo, ex-Pedients of a more legitimate kind for paying thie rice-bille failed, decide to help the victims of the recent fires by going out collecting. An imitation of the collecting books in use by the Chinese Benevolent Institutions did not cost. much, and a flourish of the pen headed the lis: with the name' of the Garrison Commander. The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs added a genus The Telegraph was not as generous, but its dollars wore good ones.
The score now stood at $120 and the next victim was to be the head of one of the Tax Bureaux. But for some reason the Commissioner had become suspicious and had sent 8 description "f the men by. tele-prone. Tang and Mo were Setained inthe Anti-Opium police foam the S.A.D.2 ted them to And from there the gentlemen went to fse Use Chinese City Court.
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