$4,000,000 Going on Empress of Japan To-day Shanghai, Oct. 8.
Approximately $4,000,000" in silver will be taken to Hongkong by the Canadian Pacife Empress of when she sails this afternoon Ata Into hour last night, motor lorries conveyed the money in wooden cases to the Customs Jelty, where it was unloaded into barges under an armed guard furnished by the Shanghat Municipal Police, The barges went down river to the Hongkew Whart under a River Police escort, The exact amount shipped could not be ascertained last night, but approximately #00 boxes, containing, '$5,000 each, wore to be loaded on the Empress of Japan. Most of this came from the vaults of the National Industrial Banke of China,
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