Both fish merchants and drug addiels have been prominent in the news during the last few days, and by tome odd coincidence, both Agur~ separate proceedings in the Second Special District Court ast Wednesday, when judgments in ce! nection with various crimes were delivered, Th the frst case, Zeng Sie-tso, Tai Sie-tse, Vai Ah-dah, Ho Zeng-20, and Ho Tsang-song were all sentenced to six years and eight months imprisonment for an armed robbery committed on April 10 last, when a Ash merchant at 13 Rue de Y'Est, lost the sum of $1600. The men were ai rested on Sunday after what was termed by the French Police yesterday ax a "particularly dificult Investigation:
Two other cases dealt with by the Court yesterday were in connection with drug addicts. N, V. Cheveleft and J. M. Hogan, Russians, and Ping Yang-ching, received sentences of one year and six months. imprisonment, two years and six months, and tone year and six months for being morphine addicts. "In addition, all three were deprived of citizen's rights for six months, In the other case, Kuo Teo-chi, who was convicted of an incitement to murder and sen-{enced to fifteen years imprisonment, was sentenced yesterday to a further eight months imprisonment for having smoked opium in the detention ward of the St, Marie Hospital,
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