Five Chinese, including one we; an, participated in an armed robbe in the French Concession yesterday morning at seven o'clock, breaking into a house in Passage 85 Rue Soeur Allegro. While one of the gang who was armed with a pistol kept a lookout on the ground floor, the remainder went upstairs, ransacking the rooms, and making off with about $200 in notes. and jewellery of gan equal value. No shots were fired Several members camp! terly of the exorbitant cha by storage companies in deviated ports and also in Shanghai: further that the coastal shipping companies based their freight rates on measurement—ton instead of weight—ton, which meant, that the freight rates on paper from Hongkong amounted to more than £2 per ton. Protests from individual firms had been of no avai and apparently the merchants' mis fortunes do not concern either ship: ping or storage companies—at any rate not for the present.
Several other matters of common interest were discussed, and the meeting terminated at 8 pin
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