Shanghai Weather Vagaries Of Gambling Den In Force Yesterday; Cool Showers Dispel Humidity Five petty racketeers, three Japanese, one Korean and one Chinese, who "While Jupiter Pluvius (so often allegedly victimized Chinese by posing maligned by mere mortals) eased as Japanese gendarmes, were arrested sweltering Shanghai yesterday by a by Japanese police May 21 while in timely tilting of his watering can the act of pulling off a $30,000 deal, and, for once in a while, pleased the the "Tairiku Shimpo" said yesterday. majority of the population, there They had been operating in the were a few individuals, however, western district since the middle of who did not look upon his acts too May, the paper said. Their activities kindly. Chief among these were were nipped when Japanese gendar-sporting enthusiasts and yachtsmen mes were notified of their attempt in particular. to obtain $30,000 from Mr. Jen Cheng-Taking advantage of the welcome wen. Chinese wine merchant of No. drop in temperature and pleasant 86 Vu Yuen Road, on the promise that sailing conditions these people were they would use their "influence" to out on the river in force yesterday reopen a padlocked gambling den. afternoon. In their small craft they The Japanese and Korean posed as gaily sailed downriver before a slight gendarmes and the Chinese as an breeze and revelled in the coolness interpreter. which followed the morning rain.
But, as everyone knows, the weather Gendarmes set a trap for them at is fickle as a few of them found out the home of Mr. Jen after being to their cost later on when, with notified of a date on which they would the coming of a few rain squalls, return there for further negotiations. there was a complete change of wind, Severe punishment would be meted leaving them stranded far downriver out to the five men, the paper said. Here they stayed until a launch, Their names were given as Toshidespatched from Shanghai, hauled kau Senda, 31; Choichiro Asanuma, them all back to their headquarters.
32: Seitaro Fukunaga, 31; Lin Shoshu, Luckily, except for a wetting, none 39, and Po Hsueh-chang, 36. of them were any worse for their experience.
In the city, however, the population was pleased at the advent of the rain for, with its coming, there
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