"Voluntary Contributions To Exchequer "has. approved of the cly of its full "in conjuneof the business the meeting concerned itself entirely with' discussing quin, connected with war measures. cee cee, toe committee regards the newly established War
already placed their organization disposal of the War Savings tee, and are prepared to assist time to the Council. the establishment of at nary in every district "has been mapped Our Ones! has stated in every way. "phe BRA. are acting in conjunction
Association onthe question of Chee of, Commerce and voluntary contributions to the Exchequer from British subjects in China, and: it is expected that these bodies will be in a position to make some announcement shortly. It-was decided to issue a special circular to all members of the association on the subject of war measures and activities, to ask members to ce-operate in rive for increased membership, as it Was strongly felt that at this time British resident should, as a join this association.
"It was further decided to set up a war efforts committee. The wing were elected to serve on ittee:—Mr. J. Haynes-Wilson, m.c, Mr. K, W. Johnstone, Mr. R. J. E. Price and Mrs. V; Arnold-Jones, with power. to ce-opt other "he general committee of the assoed a ciation will meet fortnightly until further notice.
Bent on extorting a large sum of money irom their former victim, two men who were some time ago sentenced by the First Special District Court, charged with attempted extortion, have been arrested again and are being detained by the Same tribunal, together with their alleged new accomplice, a former defective Chang Deli-shun. The two Old offenders, Tai Hsien-fang and Suh Shi-tien, will face the court again next Tuesday, charged with extortion' and forgery. The former detective will be their ce-defendant.
"The intended victim in the new case is again "Wang Hsiang-lin, manager of à cotton shop located in Room 108, the Hardoon Building, in Nanking" Road. Chang and Tai tried to extort money from him some time ago, alleging that Wang was ' dealing in Japanese goods, but they were arrested, tried, and given suspended prison sentences. It was alleged in court that they were so determined to extort money that after'being released from the court detention quarters they connived with the accused former detective, repeating the same trick, this time trying to trap their victim after failing in their extortion attempt.
The accused were alleged by the police to have recently tried to wrt $7,500 from Wang, saying that latter" had been dealing in Japanese goods under the label of a big Chinese cotton mill. Negotiations aiming of collecting the. money failed, and they then reported the matter to the cotton mill which in turn informed the Bubbling Well police. As a result, the cotton shop manager. and intended victim was himself arrested and many forged Consolidated: Tax Bureau receipts were. also seized. Police evidence later proved that the forged documents had been sent to Wang's place secretly. by the extortioners in order io. trap him. The suspects were eventually arrested later and in their prd it was alleged, other erged tex bureau documents and leas for making them were ized.
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