Safety has ordered the Shanghai and Woosung Police to take steps to suppress the sale of lottery tickets and the Shanghai District authorit~ es have forbidden the sale of antiopium pills and other noxious drugs.
Ar 6.25 a.m. on Thursday, it was reported to Bubbling Well Police station that the body of a murdered man had been found on Great Western Road. Detectives, commanded by Det-Sub-Inspr. Henry, investigated and ascertained that he, a well-dressed Chinese, had been shot, the spent cartridge being near by. "Although the man has not been identified, the police have concluded that he is the victim of the notorious gang of Shaohsing kidnappers, who, their demand for ransom being un~ heeded, decided to do away with him.
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