The Archive · 1938

Japanese Businessmen

Shanghai, June 12, OMcials and business men of Na-sasaki, Nagoya and Osaka Municipal offices and 21 boy bus conductors were mong the passengers in the Shani hai Maru arriving here on June 10, the "Nippo" said yesterday.

The officials are My, Tokusaburo Theda and Mr. Takahiko Shimazaki, Fespectively Director of the Water: works Bureau of the Nagoya municipality and Director of the Water~ Works Bureau at Osaka; Mr, Misao Kataoka, Director of the General Affairs Bureau of the Nagasaki munlcipality; Mr. Tomiro Nagase," President of the Kao Soap Manufacturing Ca.: Mr. Masaaki Ishiguro, exeetttive of the Nikko Cotton Spinning Weaving Ca, and Vice-Admirat Teijito Sugisaka, advisor to the Orientat Development Company, ployed here by the Hsing Chung The boy bus conductors willie em-Kungssu, "Some of them will work fu bus lines to Nanking and Hang= chow after undergoing training here, Cigarettes Seized Shangha!, June 10 ction of counterfeit "Pirate" cigars A further case involving. the pro-

cites came to. light yesterday after hoon in"Htongkew, when the Sette. ment Police and. the Japanese Con: fular Police nided the Tuishowa Blackwood shop. and godown, 250 Woosung Road, anc 1 Hanbury Road, respectively. They. condseated Zo cases of bogus "Pirate" cigarettes, each ease containing 50,000 cigarettes, and me amply cises bearing" the "irate" brand markings.

Fresls were made at the time fof the raid, but it is understood that the Japanese Consular Police are Proceeding ayainst the operators of the counterfeiting enterprise, In recent months Settlement Headquarters Detectives have been engaged in racing other large quantities of bogus "Pirate" cigarettes: pro: Jduced in other parts of Shanghai, Three Pistols Seized Shanghai, June 12, Two men were arrested and three automatic pistols were seized by ves from the French Police lay during a raid which formed Part of the investigation opened in connection with the armed robbery eeently of a Chinese house in Passage 221, Rue Motard. 'The two. men, believed to have' been the authors of robbery, were arrested In Toon" 77 of the An San Hotel, Rue Palikao.

They were taken into custody b6- fore they had even had time to realise that the police had broken into their room, Three pistols anda number of cartridges were seized and. the French Police are now looking for ether members of the alleged gang.

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