Thinking back, he recalled having purchased the forms at the reason: able price of one cent for two sheets from a hawker who appeared at the hop for the first time about a month ago and after two or three more visits prevailed upon the shopmen to buy part of a large consignment of waste paper which he carried in a basket. The compradore had reason to believe that the hawker made similar sales to other compradore shops.
No, the hawker did not say where he got the forms from, and, indeed, ihe compradore did not trouble to examine the paper, merely putting it all in his store of parce; s wrappings. He would, however, keep an eye open for the hawker, who seemed to come around at regular intervals, and would then question him All the forms in the shop, incidentally, were filled out in 1933 by arrivals who had every reason to believe that the information they were giving would be kept a secret. There is no Passport Office in Shanghai at the moment, so. exactly who authorized the sales of these forms cannot be ascertained at the moment.
But, as the police say, "enquiries are proceeding."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.