'Thinking back, he recalled having purchased the forms at the reason' able price of one cent for two sheets froma hawker who appeared at the shop for the first time about a month ago and after two or three more visits prevailed upon the shopmen to Duy part of a large consignment of waste paper which he carried in a Dasket, The compradore had reason to believe that the hawker made similar sales to other compradore shops, No, the hawker did not say where got the forms from, and, indeed, the compradore did not trouble to examine the paper, merely putting it all In his store of parcels 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 fied out in 1933 by arrivals who had every reason to be-Heve that the information they were giving would be Kept a secret: There is no Passport Office In Shanghai at the -monient, s0 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.