Committee organized a meeting of al Russian athletes in Shanghai, who will take part.in the coming' sports competitions. The meeing was hold the premises of the Russian. Soup Kitchen. Mr. A. S. Keltzeff, a veteran sportsman "and sports-organizer, who arrived here recently from Harbin, is "responsible for initiating the idea of a Russian Olympics in Shanghai. Well-known, even in Moscow. before the Revolu: tion, Br. Keltzett is likewise push the idea of holding "French Wre: Hing" matches in. Shanghai Dr. B. 1. Tasinsky, who underwent major operation half a. year ago, has recuperated to such a degree that he has again resumed his pras-tice, "Russians who are well content ith their lot in Shanghai, have! learnt with jealousy that coal in! Harbin costs 29 gobi_a ton, while lower quality coal costs 20 gobi, 19 gobi and even 14 gobi a ton. Mr. V_D. Schuin, an old hand. in the {Festaurant business in the Far Fast, who once hed the best restaurant in In Forgery Case Shanghai, Mar. 27.
Central Station detectives "have completed their investigation of one fof the largest forgery cases here in a Tong time and have arrested the two Chinese alleged to be. responsible. JOut "of $60,000 obtained by." the [swindlers from a well known foreign firm, $50,000 has been recovered Forged cheques were used by the sto defraud the company, the timely arrest of the alleged main figure In the conspiracy [was responsible for yet another large jeheque being stopped as it was about be cashed. The larier cheque was this part of the world in Vladivostok. and who has spent the last few. months in Tsingtao, recently stumble ed in.a dark room and broke his leg. Mr, Sechuin Is 72 years old, News has come from Laoshan, near Tsingtao, that Mr. Ivan P, Lebedet, an old resident "of the mountain resort who has for long been known. simply ax the sheriff of Lagshan, has disappeared without a trace." Lebedeit lived in his cottage alone ised goats and, in sumer, had his nerves frayed by visitors. In Tin tao, Dr. K._V. Hokhlatehkin, Me Rybatko and Me. P. BE. Homlakoft sot out to find him. "All signs in his cabin pointed to the probability that men tad been there shortly before.
was very dificult, however, to determine what had' boon stolen, as! many valuable things had been touched, one of them being a cheque-book. Several Russian families live in Laoshan in winter, among. them Captain "A. M. Kotenev, who has a Messrs. Wilhelm Maier & Ca, Ger-rman, with offices at 264 Kiangse was the firm vielimized. Tt was di Jeovered by Mr, Wilhelm Maier at the middle of this month that someone had very cleverly forged a number Jor cheques of the company using the false signature of his. brother, Mr. [Otto Maicr, who departed for' Ger-Jmany several months ago, Both the: fRame and the frm's chop had been so well imitated that the banke upon which the cheques were drawn, the [Deulsch-Asiatische Bank, had cashed them. Blank cheques" had "been obtained Iikewise by forging Mr. JOtto Maier's signature. The amounts ingeribed on the cheques ranged from $2000 to $5,000.
Detective Sergeant C. W. Kader was assigned to investigate the case and he. Tearned that" two young Cantonese clerks had been dismissed from the firm's service about a month Otto Maier's departure from 'They had knowledge that Mr, Etta' Maler would be absent for long time.
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