Shanghai, May 12.
For selling spurious Spring Race Champion sweep tickets, five Chinese were sentenced to imprisonment terms ranging from eighteen months to four months by the First Special District Court yesterday morning.
The first accused, Ting Zang-ling, was arrested recently in the Central District where he attempted to sell these tickets in business offers. The other four were arrested in supe sequent raids on tea-houses in Hupeh Road and Pakhoi Road. Over 50 fake tickets together with $52, Lelieved to be the proceeds "of the sales of the spurious tickets, were seized.
'Tsung Sung-daring, said to be the cader of the gang, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment; Loh Chi-sung, one year, and, the' rest Ting Zang-ling, Doong Chung-ching and Tsang Ts-yuen, were each given four months' jail term,
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