Two Chinese were arrested over the week-end by the S.MP. for, uttering. false banknotes, of, which no less than $3,000 were discovered in possession of one of accused.
The first arrest was made during a raid on a Chinese boarding house at 68 Chefoo Road, where 600 coun= forfeit five-dollar banknotes were found and their owner, a Chinese, arrested. Subsequently another Chinese was arrested in connection with the same case which is to be presented in the first Special district court today, by the Det. Sub-Inspec= for P. Maklaevsky. It is believed that the gang in question succeeded in circulating about $2,000 worth of spurious notes besides the $3,000 confiscated by the police in course of their first arrest in this case.
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