Shanghai, Feb. 17.
Li Ping.chuan and Wu Shin-feng who are alleged to be connected with the Kwang Sen Club, a gambling house in 135 Brenan Road, are being detained by the First Special District Court because they have been charged by the Settlement police with offences against public order and restricting officers from carrying out their duties. The case is an interesting one, for this Is the first time that two men connected with the gambling business in the western district have been brought before a Seltlement court within whose jurisdiction they are. alleged to have violated the law.
Both men have denied in court that they have anything to do with the gambling establishment, explaining that they were arrested by mistake but, as has been stated, they were charged by the Settlement police. 'They were arrested early on' February 18 when two Chinese constables attached to Bubbling Well Police Station were involved in a ght with hirelings of the gambling. establishment and also_some police men of the Greater Shanghai city have been dragged away from his. ost and manhandled. He was re-eased by a group of men who are} Alleged to be connected with the establishment only when his comrades. came fo his rescue, and in doing so. some shots were fired into the air by way of intimidation.
was revealed in court that trouble occurred at about midnight fon Feb, 14 when the management of the gambling house was not salis-fled with some wheelbarrow men who put their vehicles on the Settlement fide of the street in such a way as to cause inconvenience to gamblers going to or leaving the establishment in motor cars. The two detained men_are alleged to have come into the Settlement and forced the wheelbarrow men to remove their vehicles, whereupon a constable intervened.
'The constable's act angered them and they therefore tried to drag him into the gambling house, it is alleged. Another "constable informed the Settlement. police that his comrade was being beaten, and a large party' officers was rushed to the place time to arrest the two men. Some other men who helped the iwo de-fained men fled. Both detained men fare alleged 10 be former officers of the Nantao Public Safety Bureau, "Wei Hwa" Cheques Shanghai. Feb. 21, Judgment as been given by the First "Special District Court favour of plaintiffs in a civil ation brought up by the E. D. Sassoon Company, Lid. (Fepresented by Mr. $°S Barraclough) which recently Tefused to accept "Wei Twa" Segue fr rent given by 1, Chinese Gin Rood "owned. by. the "British ops occupying buildin iene
firm. the "defendants have been ordered to pay thelt Fespective sums money due and. also to Pay the curt costs. proportionately, "having een. given "20" days. in which npeal against the decision.
The plaints claimed for a sudgment, Geelaring heir right Tention and allowing "provisional execution upon security. "The pro-Sinonal execution has. been allowed Upon the plaintiffs furnishing secur-Higrin national currency" dollars in the amount corresponding to. that Which should be paid by the respec {ive defendants, The right of lets over the, aunties, fu, the amount" of rent in arrear has been teased premises tothe fling the petition the plaintiffs stated that the' defendants" rented Ferpectively from them the premises in Tentsin oad, that "up 10 December of last year they were Fespectively in default of rent to the amount as claimed, that they evaded the payment under pretexts in spite of repeated efforts to collect,
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