The old P, & O, flagstaff, recently removed from The Bund and deposited, somewhat forlorn-looking, on the baseball section of the Race Course grounds, has been turned over to @ gang of painters, wht luring the week-end were busily chipping and painting, preparatory to the "big stick' erection on 'a new site, trade, The men were apprehended. tu a raid in the Bubbling Well district and two raids on houses in the French Concession, and it ts believed their arrest nipped in the bud a carefully-arrangéti looting in Chinese territory, possibly at Wusih, All seven. were brought before the First Special District Court on Dec. 10 and were remanded for "i week.
In recent months the gang had been traced from Tienisin to Shanghhal, back to Tientsin and then, last month, back to Shanghai. again, 'Towards the end of November' the
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