Admission by Daw Who Says Money Lost in Gambling Alfred Joseph Daw, 25-year old unrecognized Briton, was charged i the First Special District Court ye: terday with having misappropriated 53%4 bags of rice of the Nantao Refugee zone. The rice was valued at river $856.
Daw made a full confession ana told Judge Feng that he removed the rice from a godown in the Settlement under the pretext that he was to take it to the refugee zone. He then sold it below the market price to a number of men, six of whom, all Cantonese, were taken into ci tody and charged with receiving and disposing of stolen property.
Daw continued that he obtained about $500 as a result of the deal, but the money was not in his possession very long because, within a few days after he had sold the rice, he lost all the money in gambling with the other accused, one of whom, according to the police, was wanted for having conducted public gambling.
Mr. G. Findlay Andrew, represent-Ing the Nantao Refugee Zone Supervisory Committee, stated they had about 4000 bags of rice donated for ces and stored in the Bank a godown in the Settlement would not store so large a of the cereal in Nantao.
There were two keys for the godown where in rice was stored, one of h kept by Daw. Witness r as he knew, Daw took out the rice on January 5 and 6, although the witness, surer of the Committee, instructions to him same on those day Six other prisoners accused of receiving stolen property having been questioned, the Judge ved decision till Tuesday next. Mr. Paul Y. Ru, prosecuting, said 31 bags of the rice had been recovered. stal sailings to-day include the C.N. s. Wusueh, which is to leave the French Bund at 8 o'clock this morning for Tungchow. To-morrow will be a much heavier sailing than to-day according to present schedules, no less than seven ships being listed to leave port on Thursday.
At 6 a.m. to-morrow, the L-C. Fooshing will sail from the Roosevelt Terminal for Chefoo, Tientsin and Chinwangtao, and the C.N. s. Tsinan will leave the French Bund for Am:
Swatow and Hongkong. An hour later, at 7 o'clock, the C.N, s. Liang-chow sails for Wenchow, and the I.-C.
Siangwo, from the Peking Road for Tungchow.
10 o'clock to-morrow morning, the C.N, s. Shengking is expected to sail from the French Bund, bound for Tsingtao, Weihaiwei, Chefoo and Tientsin, while at 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon the C.N. s. Shantung will aving the French Bund for Foo-Hongkong and Canton. Another sailing to-morrow will be that of the Keilan Mining Administration s. Kaiping, Captain J. B. Struth in command, which is bound for Chinwangtao direct.
Among in Shanghai ye: Kailan Mining on board the Administration Kaipi Mrs.
Nazer, Mr. and Mrs Tchou and party Our duties to family and society and perhaps also towards a profession, are certainly difficult racked by pi but if in addition we are in then we fully realise how important it is to have a prompt remedy available.
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