"Arrest" in Avenue Road Without Telling A Chinese named Zau Li-sz, engaged in the local transportation business, was yesterday in the custody of the Japanese military aut! orities in the "New Shanghai Hotel, North Szechuen Road, where he h been taken on Thursday morning. The hotel was formerly the Derring Apartments.
It was learned that a group con-isting of two Japanese end ten Chinese "arrested" Zau on Thursday morning at his residence in a lane off Avenue Road, opposite Majestic Road. The group is believed to have taken this action without having sought the advice or ce-operation of the Settlement Police, which have jurisdiction.
Even last night, the reasons for Zau's detention were not plain to the Settlement authorities, although was believed that it had so 2 ing on transportation fons to obtain the man's release h. proved n a late hour Opium Dealer Slain in "Ta Tao" Territory Traffickers' Row Causes Murder Off Brefian Rd.
Another murder reflecting the lawless conditions existing in the western extra- Settlement district under "Ta Workmen at Wusueh repairing the 2,500 feet of Yangtze River dyke which was destroyed by Chinese troops during August, 1938. Seven hundred labourers have been employed by the Peace Preservation Commission to make the repairs. in time to prevent spring floods.
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