Ballistic experts of the Arms {Identification Section of the Shanghat Munlelpal Police are busy ex-Jamining a fresh quantity of arms Jand ammunition seized by the Settloment Police.
The - firearms consist ct three /Mausers, one Furor automatic pistol, tone Danton pistol, one Rheumstall pistol, one Spanish-make" automatic pistol, one PB. pistol, one Brown-ug, and five 32 calibre automatic pistols, ammunition magazines and about {00 rounds of ammunition, The fourteen pistols and ammunition were found on May 31 In a series of raids - conducted by Chinese Detective Constable 161 Jand party. Six suspects were arrested Jand remanded by the First Special [District Court on a writ of detention.
None of the' suspects offered any' resistance when the police raided their premises and seized the arms Tibetans Remanded Shanghai, June 1.
Following the finding of a Chinese who speaks Tibetan, the case against {wo "Tibetans, suspected to have stolen a quantity "of valuables be-Tonging to the late Panchan Lama, "Living Buddha" of Tibet, were re~ sumed in the First Special. District (Court yesterday, 'According {0 the police prosecution, the we accused, Labsang and Danain, had confessed to, the. theft of the' Jewels, They wanted to re-{urn to Tibet, "but lacked money. After discussions with one named Lai-ting in Peiping in carly February, they decided to leave Peiping wilh the" valuables. They ad aso solen Peiping. some gold bars which were sold in
"Through an interpreter; Lobsang fold'the Court that after the death of the Panchan Lama, his eom= anion and he himself were maitre Sted by. the lamas who became ministrators of the Panchan Lama's fate, He then decided to leave Pel ing with the Jewels, is companion, Danzin, did not take any part in the "Appearing with the two Tibetans were two watchmen. charged with having extorted $1,000 from them, "The two men dented the charges, ing the money had been given them by the Tibetans for their "services", "The case was adjourned until next weeks, "Meanwhile, word was being waited by the Settlement authorities from Peiping, "Vice Dens'
Shanghai June 1.
Thirty-four men and women, rounded up by detectives of Louza Station, were either jailed or fined. by. the Pirst Special District Court Yesterday on charges of conducting irl guides establishments.
The arrests were made between 8 and 1130 pin. on May 30. More arrests are expected as the police continue their" drive against "vice 'Of the 34 persons, twelve were named conductors of' the establishments, while the 22 others were girls employed by them.
Yang Kwoh Fei was the first girt guides bureau visited by the police. Five men and one woman operators of the place together with seven titis were arrested, They were each ranted a $15 bail.
'Other arrests were made in different rooms in the Oriental Hotel in the Sincere building in Nanking Road. Two men and five girls were arrested in Room 318 occupied by conductors of one of these joints, The men were sentenced to ten days' Imprisonment each, while the girls were each given a' $5 bail.
'The poice party next raided Room 384, where one man and two girls Were arrested on same charges of operating unlicensed singsong houses and entertaining guests without Ucences. The man was given. ten cys' jail while the girls were fined. The police further raided Rooms 322, 524 and 431.
The heaviest sentence was passee on 'Tsang Tset-dee, a conductor of one of the places raided by the police. He claimed 'Japanese citizenship, but when a Japanese constable was called to Court, he said he was a Chinese. 'The Judge sentenced him to two weeks' imprisonment instead ten days as given to other accused appearing in the sime court. on similar charges.
June 4.
Céntinuing their drive against Jnvice dens," detectives of Louza [Station raided two rooms in the Yangtsze Hotel and a house in }Kiukiang Road, where two men and 2 woman together with six girls! Jwere arrested on charges of operat jing unlicensed singsong houses and Jentertaining guests" without licences. The two men were fined $20 each, the woman, $16, while five of the six girls were each fined $5. 'The! other girl was acquitted by the First [Special District Court—yesterday'
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