'The Commissioner of, Police of the Shanghai Municipal Council states in his report for' September that the total of 1,250 cases of reported crime shows' a decrease of 140 in comparison with that for august and is 99 Jess than for the corresponding month of 1033. Ar-Fests for crime committed during the month show a decrease as compared with August and an increase over the figure for July, 1,498 having been apprehended in September as against 1860 in August and 1,108 in July. Tu addition, 45 persons were taken Into custody for crimes committed fa previous "months. Seventy-eight persons were arrested on behalf other authorities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.