Shanghai, Aug. 27, Three gambling house operators who recently came to Shanghai from Soochow were each sentenced to four years imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court, charged with robberies. On two occasions iey were found to have victimized members of girl guide societies in the downtown district here, After arriving here they bought an imitation pistol with which they' commit ted. the crimes, Their trick was to register with a small hotel and then telephone to guide girls asking them to come to take them around the city on a sight-seeing tour. When the girls arrived they were robbed.
Wuson Bough, the lieonsco of the Lalterie Delieate, was on August 23, fined $20 for continuously furnish? ing samples of milk which upon examination were found to be below bacteriological standard Tw King's Head Hotel
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