Two Chinese boys in their early teens who were charged with smuggling opium into the Settlement were dealt with leniently yesterday by Judge Fu in the First Special District Court. The judge acquitted them but ordered, however, that they be sent to the reformatory where they will have to stay for ten months. Two other boys were declared not guilty, but Hsiao Ching-cheng, the eldest in the group, was sentenced to one year and six months' imprisonment charged with assisting in the sale of opium.
One of the boys sent to the reformatory was first arrested last week by the Chengtu Road police while he was travelling in a bus. On his person four pounds of opium were found and through his confession the Settlement branch office of a western district opium hong located at 641 Hankow Road was raided. The boy had been sent by his employer to carry the contraband to the branch office.
Subsequent investigations enabled the police to arrest the other boys. The sentencing of the boys has sealed the fate of at least one branch of the western district opium hong in the Settlement, The Favourite Resort of Discriminating People invite your ing Japanese fishing-boats with warships when the annual trip north would take place in April.
Mr. Wang Ching-wei, ousted Chairman of the Central Political Council, left Hanoi on March 24 aboard a The mutual concessions made by Russia and Japan prove the common desire of the two countries to settle in friendly manner all their differences;\ the British observers concluded.—Havas. specially chartered plane en route to Saigon, says a Hongkong Chinese message to the "Wen Wei Pao." Other reports stated that Mr. Wang is en roue to Siam, according to Hanoi messages.
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