Finding nothing more in the Grand Hotel the raiding party quickly made tig woy to the Far Eastern 'Hotel at 10 pin, halt'an hour after the start of the raid. Hero the same procedure was carried out and after a few minutes' searching more" opium stucking paraphernalia had "been seized. "Unfortunately the owners of the apparatus had fled and so there wore no arrests.
'A. "North-China Dally News" reporter, who accompanied the police on both "raids, saw. the painstaking efforts taken by the detectives and funiformed nen" taking pert, every nook and cranny coming under their gaze during the duration of the raid.
Just afore 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 te has teries were doing a roaring trade as crowds of Chinese, who had gathered fas goon as the raids had commenced, made their way inside to see "what Ttewas all about"
'The raids were carried out under the "supervision of Mr. H. D. M. Robertson, Assistant Commissioner, while other high ofliciais present in duced Supt. J. Mason, Inspector Gash and' Detective-inspector G. J. Bennett, Asoxe the passengers who sailed in the s. Empress of Japam on March 8 for Hongkong were—Mr. F. S. Gibbings, Managing" Director Dunlop Rubber Ca, (China) Ltd, Me, and Mrs. Harry Catlin and Messrs, T. J. Fenwick and J. MeNeil
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