'Shanghai, May 8, Imprisonment terms. ranging' from ten years to three years were passed fon six Chinese convicted on charges of white slave gramme by the First Special District Court" yesterday morning, The six accused, arrested by thi French Police, belonged to, the same gang of ten Chinese rounded up by the Settlement Police in a raid on the Chung Chow Hotel in Shantung Road. Thirteen women, found ina room in the hotel, were prevented by the police from being transported toa brothel in Hongkew.
The activities of the gang of traMickers wore revealed when a member of the gang and a woman had a heated quarrel outside the Great World amusement resort Avenue Edward VII, corner of Boule vari de Montigny. "They were taken to a police station in the French Concession, where the woman ale Joged that the man was trying to sell her to a brothel in Hongkew.
Settlement Police raided the hotel, arresting ten members of the gang, while the French Police arrested six, who were extradited {0 the Settle. ment.
'Tsang Foo-sung, said to be the Jeader of the gang, and Yang Foh-Keung were given teh years' imprisonment each; Tseu Poh-kung and Ching Yoong-fah, seven years' imprisonment each, while Sion Ling-kung and Yang Ching-foh received five years and three years respectively.
'The ten others were sentenced by the First Special District Court about two weeks' ago.
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