Putting up at the Ping An hot for several days, they perfected their piracy scheme and finally boarded the Tungelow, which was to carry 0 children to school in Chefoo, Ace cording to Fan Shurai's alleged confession, the gang first seized nine~ board. the Tungchow believed to have met success in seizing ships because of their thorough knowledge of the arrangement, condition, and habils of coastal vessels—Reuter, 'A Shanghai Plot Considerable interest was aroused at least five Shanghai hotels bearing the same name of Ping An, last Wednesday, following receipt of the report thai one of the Tungchow pirates had confessed to the gang] having perfected their scheme in a hotel of this name after their arrival the s. Yochow from the south on January 24. Interest particularly ran high in the Ping An Hotel in Rue Chu Pao San, where ascertained that, among more than {forty guests who registered there on that day, 21 arrived in the s. Yochow. Of this number, twelve wore uniforms and claimed tobe mi.itary policemen travelling from Canton to Nanking. The party lett the same night. The remaining nine guests came in four Gifferent groups and occupied four separate rooms, Two left the hotel on January 28 and returned for 2 brief slay" after two days. The remaining seven left on January 25.
When a representative of the *North-China Herald" visited this hotel, none could give a description of the nine guests and their movements. It was said, however, that the majority spoke a southern
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