"Inside Looking Out" all him the "King 6¢ the and to suggest that he ever worked "would be lose-majesty.
He is Hans Hansen, a self-styled Latvian, and the number of times hie has been arrested is between sone and two hundred. Probably. nearer the latter Agure, He just keeps coming back, does Hans, and no number of gaol senences can persuade him to chan hhis'mode of living, which doesn't include even a nodding acquaintance with work: Ten days at Amoy Road fg Hans's usual term, and when he comes out again he just starts in the old rut: begging from. foreigners in the Settlement.
Ho is not listed in the Almanach de Gotha, but for years hho has been the undisputed "King of the Beggars."
Early en. Friday afternoon the Municipal Police encountered Hans begging in Nanking Road and politely but firmly told him to get off the street, Shortly afterwards he was found stopping foreigners on the Customs Jetty and this time he was sent straight to the Police
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