Sixty-eight pistols. and revolvers have been handed in for destruction since the proclamation was issued. These weapons are defective.
"Besides, about 170 guns of various descriptions have been submitted to the licensing office for safe-They include a small automatic pistol which was presented, in a handsome fed leather case, by Herr Adolf Hitler, Germany's Fuehrer, to a Eh nese mission worker when he visited Berlin. There are several firing military Mausers and also tiny. pistols and revolvers of the type carried by mysterious ladies in spy novels, Besides the fire-arms, bayonets have been turned over to the Police—souvenirs of the recent fighting" about Shanghai.
Over the New Year period, 187. pistol licences have been cancelled at the request of the owners of the weapons, Detective-Sergt, H. J. Oakley, charge of the Arms Licensing Section. altogether has experienced the busiest time since his connection with the office started, It may be true, the newspaper declares, that the Central Bank of China have been called upon to make up the quota of the foreign debt service seized in Tientsin and else-
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