Lebon, which arrived on Friday night with M. Merlin, Governor-eral of Cochin China on. board, the officials on Saturday afternoon turned their attention to the funnel casings. Hidden behind them were 116 suspicious looking bags, containing 60 pistols and approximately 220,000 rounds pistol ammunition.
While the search' party was making the big seizure, Customs Officer Carver was on duty on the gangway of the vessel, and intereepted one of. the vessel's stewards going ashore, whom he searched and found to be in possession of two automatics, Mr. Carver. handed the man over to the Water Police who handed him over with three others arrested Jater to the French Police.
At about half-past seven o'clock the same evening three more of the vessel's stewards were arrested by two Chinese water policemen in a sampan. Both parties were in sampans. The mon were found to he in possession of nine automatics, and it is alleged that they offered the police a bribe to let them go. They, also, were handed over to the French Police, and all four sill be tried in the French Court in due Mr. Sheng Chu-hso, chairman the Chinese Bankers" Association of Shanghai, returned to Shanghai form "Peking on Tuesday after. attending the National Bankers" Conference. "Mr. Sheng i local manager of the Bank of Communications.
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