Several of the pistols the Settlement police seized recently had been brought to the foreign area by Chic ese officers after. their withdrawal from Nantao. "A case of such seizure Was heard by Judge. Feng' inthe First Special District Court. on Dec "The. prisoner inthe case Was Tseng Hsueh-ching who was arrested detectives of Lowza Police Sto tion at. 725/22 oochow Read, The detectives frst found. some. opium find. arrested two. women at" the address. Continuing their search, the detectives found a Matiser pistol Inthe drawer of a table. an avlometie. pistol in a coat pocket and' Demon. pistol under the pillow of 2 bed, 178 rounds of ammunition were also found under the bed.
Arraigned before the Court, Tseng war aeoned Of potsssion of exe plum smoking, but other women war sidered released for Inck of evidence, Tseng told the Judge he was an ex-Paoantul officer, The seized pistols were received from Chang Kung-long, attached te the former Shang-hal Garrison Commander's office, as Chang found it very inconvenient to bring the weapons to Tungchow fater the Chinese forces withdrew. from Nantao. The prisoner said he was told to keep the weapons tem~ porarily, but admitted having failed fo register the weapons with the foreign area authorities.
'Judge Feng reserved his decision (i) 'Thursday' next.
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