Finding nothing more in the Grand Hotel, the raiding party quickly made its way to the Far Eastern Hotel at 10 pin. half an hour after the start of the raid. Here the same procedure was carried out and after a few minutes' searching more opium smoking paraphernalia had been seized. Unfortuhately the owners of the apparatus lizd fled and so there were no arrests.
A "North-China Daily News" reporter, who accompanied the police on both raids, saw the painstaking efforts taken by the detectives and uniformed men taking part, every nook and cranny coming under their gaze during the duration of the raid.
Just before 10.30 the last room in the hotel had been searched and the detectives left the establishment, entering the waiting police cars outside, which conveyed them to their respective stations. The members of the Russian Regiment boarded their lorries and soon afterwards the hosteries were doing a roaring trade as "crowds of Chinese, who had gathered as soon as the raids had commenced, made their way inside to see "what it was all about."
The raids were carried out under the supervision of Mr. H. D. M. Robertson, Assistant Commissioner, while other high officials -present i cluded Supt. J. Mason, Inspector S. V. Gash and Detective-Inspector G. J.
Bennett.
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