June 22, One of the biggest opium. smuggling gang operating between Shang hal and Hongkong has just been bro: ken up by the Central Police. This was revealed yesterday in the First cial District Court when four out of eleven men arrested in connection with the drug business were sentenced. The ringleader, Cho Chao.fing, drew five years and three men, three months each for transporting the contraband, All others were acquitted.
All. accused Were arrested last Friday ina room in the Great China Hotel in-Vu Ya Ching Road where the officers also seized a large quant. ity of opium together with $4,000 in. notes, Investigations revealed that the gang had been operating extensively and that before the police dis covered it, a large quantity of opium had already been sent to Hongkong, for sale, It was also revealed in curt that the gang had good con-rections with an opium hong in Nantao, Trolley Bus Fire June 22, A fire, which broke out in a No, 16 trolley bus in Carter Road, near Shanhaikwan "Road on May 19 and. which caused more than 20 casual. ies, including several deaths, caused by the ignition of celluloid Products used for making buttons, which a passenger carried while travelling, This was brought Ught in the First Special District Court "yesterday when Nyi Chi-Kong, manager of a button manufac turing factory in Connaught Road said that some careless person might have thrown a cigarette butt into the bag containing the highly In. flammable articles which caused th fire to break out, Judgment was reserved for a week and Nyi was remanded in custody, The mystery surrounding the outbreak was only recently solved by the police when it was learned that some inflammable articles carried by passenger were burned inside the trolley which caused the disaster. It was alleged that after alighting from the crowded and burning trolley, Nyl_went to his native district 10) evade law but, eventually, he was tracked down when he relumed to this elly, The question now is who threw the cigarette butt that caused the ignition of the celluloid products in Nyl's bag?
Nyi confessed in court that the bag belonged to him but refused to admit that it was he himself who threw the cigarette bult, which he thought caused the outbreak. Nyi also admitted that at the time of the outbreak, he was in the trolley. He. said that he had been asked by several button factories to buy celluloid from a shop in the French Concession, When the fire broke out! he was carrying a bog containing 12 pounds of the inflammable products. His hair was burned and he had to escape through a window of the trolley, he
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