The report of the swindle, which Jomounted to a total of $00,000, was made to the Police on March 18 and the same day the detectives were able tovarrest one of the two suspects, who had been the dupe of the actual foresee Jand had presented the cheques for payment, at the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, The forger had pald this man only $1,500 for his part in the scheme. The arrest was made in a room of a Peking Road house, and the man was Jone of the pair dismissed by Maler beautiful mansion. Houses are spaced C some time previously. so wide apart, however, that there "me second man was apprehended is almost no contact between their jon March 21. "When the Police sub-inhabitants. sequently went to his room, in a house Jesefield Road, they found various Fine Treatment /neriminating documents In the case. was learned that he had spent some Mr, Edwin Brandt, musician, months in imitating Mr. Otto Maier's was born in St. Petersburg and 1 specimen signature until he had cently played in Mr. Bershadsky's achieved what was well nigh a perfect Band in Singapore, was placed forgery. The man further admitted the internment camp for Germans in that he had spent about $10,000 of his that city because he had a German. lni-gotten gains and that the remainder passport. Mr. Brandt arrived here war secreted in the home of a relative Fecently, and told the Hussian press in Moulmein Road. There Detective that. treatment received by inmates [Sergeant Krader and Chinese detec of the camp from the British authorllives went and recovered from a trunk ties was very humane. On Christ $45,000 in bank-notes anda bank= mas Day the Commandant of "the Look containing a deposit of $5,000 camp sent them all 100" bottles of [Thus $50,000 out of the original $60,000 beer. Recently 24 men were released, had' been saved, The prisoner 0 and were given $250 apiece for the fessed that he had spent, the $10,000 trip, Me, Brandt hed his cello mainly on a "gay "lifec* including the camp, and often. played inthe $8,500 lost over. the gambling tables Commandant's premises. 'The latter In' the Western district, took part in the Great War and spent Both men have made brief separate three years in a German prisoners' appearances in. the First Special camp. "Mr. Brandt says that District Court and are to appear there quite satiated with his halt year's again together on April 2. The alleged imprisonment. On the return" trip forger, whose name ix given as 00 the Conte Rosso every courte: Yang-hwei, aged 27, was in court was shown him and "his" comrads yesterday and was remanded. The ind in Shanghai they were given other man Is Liang Sushoong, 2 rooms in the German School " and Both. are: Cantonese. offered free board in the German Detective. Sergeant Krader was lesssted in his exhaustive investigation The annual general meeting, of thy by. Detective Sub-Inspector Yang, of Russian Chamber of Commerce was Central Station, and other Chinese held recently, Mr. Charles Metzler detectives. acting as Honorary Chairman.
Regiment is supposed fo do and what Ulanov, Chaieman of the otganidoes do, account of the past In connection with the transfer of V.'S. Teepkin, Honorary the mental ward of the Russian reported the siate of the Orthodox Contratcenity "Hospital to Chamber's funds. Mr. A.V. Konev the new building on Keswick Road, chairman of the revisionary commit tee, told" members. of revisions it has been made possible to increase the Hospital's accommodation for the carried out in the Chamber's books. therapeutically and surgically 1M.
counts were the nbulatory has been moved to Ulanoy was re-elected premises on Rue Maresca, Dr. D. 1, Grigorieft was elected Viee= Karakoft, the founder atid director Chairman, Mr. V."S. Tseplein, Hon has expressed the orary Treasurer, Mr. A.V. Konev will now find nitta, A.D. Long, INV.
rman of the fevisionary com possible to accommodate all those needing its, services.
'The building of a new synagogue M.G. Zalevsky 2 plan which is of stich 'Artishett were' elected to the Board of Directors. atr.
Fedulenko and Mr. A.J. Mari were has been already begun at the comer of Routes Vallon and Tenant dela chosen to be candidates for member= Rabinoviteh is. the ship on the Board. building committee, Indignation nil a special annotineement on the subject appeared in the "Shang.
Mr. Robert L. Stewart's letter to 'AL the present time the the Bditor of the NCD.N, regarding fund has reached $60,000 but the cost the value of th of building the synagogue is estimat-S.C. has cal fed to be no tess than $175,000, Tt is whole colony, hoped that the remaining; $100,000 odd Will be collected, both among persons "Slovo" donating large sims and those giving the act what litle they can. It ig. stressed the Russian Regiment, which, it said, that only a fund to which all elreles "does far more than provide guards fof the local Russian-Jewish popula. of honour minent foreigners tion will donate can achieve the Chainnan of the assary results. The ceremony of shanghai aving of the corner stone will be Zaria" wrote about what the Russian held in the near future,
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