Two constables, suspicious of an innocent-looking riesha full of brooms, stopped the vehicle allow the puller to given an explanation of where he was bound.
the more curious of the officers lifted one of the brooms, find it heavier than the ordinary imple ment," He broke it, open. The handle was packed with opium, At the station, where ho was tairen at once, the. puller deity bya patron, who. appeare ha! been. engaged atthe" Guntoms have cow from the str Wahu. Ho was di veted to an address in the French "Concession, Further Investigations at Central disclosed that the lot of brooms, 41 in-nam-Ser, "contained the." contraband. Weighed they were found to. con. sist of 38 Ib," The" owner, "whom the police believe must have" wit-bessed the confiscation Bund, has not claimed his goods.
Dunino the week ending Septemder 10 there were 13 deaths amongst the foreign community of the International Settlement and 181 amongst the Chinese in comparison with 13 and 209, respectively, during the previous week. There' were only 28 cases of cholera (¢wo among foreigners), four being fatal. The cholera situation shows a further decided improvement, the figures for the previous week being, being 42 cases, of which four were fatal. Typhoid showed 12. cases, with nine deaths,
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