Charged with inciting persons to gamble, two tea-boys were fined $100 or 50 days' imprisonment each by the First Special District Court yesterday, The men, Ngan, Tsu-fah, aged 42, and Chao Pah-dee, aged 38, were arrested last Friday in Great Western Road, where they were found posting bills, advertising gaming houses in the western district outside the Settlement area, Both the two confessed to the charges, According ito information from Chinese sources, well over 20 gambling dens are functioning in the western district, and battles are often fought between operators of rival dens, These gaming houses are said to ye paying taxes to the Pootung regime,
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