The Archive · 1938

Faked Train Tickets

Shanghai, May 24.

For having sold counterfeit. train tickets to twelve Chinese who wanted to go to Nanking, three Chinese were sentenced by the First. Special District Court yesterday morning.

Zung Kying-woo, an_ interpreter employed at a travel agency, who sold the tickets, was sentenced to a ne of $3,000 in addition to three months' imprisonment, The Inter-prefer implicated Koo Yoh-ling who was sentenced to six months' jail term. The latter in turn implicated jone Loh Hal-ming who got one year. The "latter again' implicated one (Tsang to have sold the tickets, But the police could not locate the man, The tickets were discovered to be false by Japanese military police when a party of twelve" Chinese boarded a train, The men were tumed over to the Settlement Police by the Japanese for investigation, The tickets were subsequently traced to the first accused, an. interpreter lof a travel agency, and two others, who were all" sentenced yesterday. The twelve Chinese passengers were freed after questioning.

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