As an aftermath of the publicity, if not the shooting, in connection with 2 yeunblinge row at the former Welt Cabaret, off Vu Yuen Read oppose Jessiicld Park, the badlands aut ties have now closed the gamble house.
Japanese Gendarmes fired shots in the "air at the denon December 3 after they ad been summoned three Japanese patrons who said hey Had! jast several hundred dollars over the gaming tables. The losers had protested to the management, whose only sation was to summon tome of the armed toughs employed "guards" Bloodshed was averted, although almost everybody concerned the affair was armed.
The latest development was the control gambling hells in the tur-aleut west.
Shanghai, Dee. 7 The band of pirates who attacked the Butterfield & Swire coastal steamer Wuhu inthe Yangtze Delta on the morning of December 1 were Chinese Javerilias, the "North-China Daily News" learned yesterday. The band, about forty in number, were well farmed, having in their possession four machine guns In addition to lighter Weapons. "The guerillas had been Joperating in the vicinity of San Ho [Kwang in the Yangtze Delta and were desperately in need of food.
In order to obtain provisions they resorted to piracy, picking on the {Wulin" which, Ironically enough, Jearried a cargo of cotton. The attack fas staged at 320 am, when the guerillas surrounded the' steamer in Jsampans, junks and other small craft [While machine uns. blazed away at the ship the. pirater boarded the lvessol being resisted "by the ship's Russian guards and the oflcers.
The defenders were forced to retire to the bridge deck where they defied Jonstaught after onslaught from the hunger-driven invaders.. At daybreak the tide of battle turned in favour of courageous little group. of jets and the pirates were forced retire, leaving two of their group ying onthe deck. "One of these was dead while the other was seriously [wounded in three places,
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