The Archive · 1938

Meeting to-day's demand

with Roisa Mihai, aged 21, and Luba Mihai, aged 16, Gypsy dancers, were ordered by the First Special District Court yesterday morning to be detained for a week for further investigations, The two dancers were first arrested in Hongkew by the Japanese military authorities on Thursday afternoon. They were alleged to have stolen a wallet belonging to a Japanese soldier at the Asahi Cafe} in Hongkew.

According to. the complaint, they visited the cafe to entertain patrons with their dances. A Japanese soldier asked them to sit with him to take some food but five minutes after their departure from the table, the soldier found his wallet missing it was reported.

The two dancers were arrested the next afternoon when they visited {he cafe again. The were later handed over {o the Settlement

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