Of Japanese at Tientsin Fifteen Arrested for Persisting Despite Campaign To Discourage Gambling; Severe Punishment Tientsin, Apr. 6.
The arrest of ten Japanese nation-for gambling at the Tientsin hai 1 ite the repeated warnings ugd by the Japanese authorities is announced by the local ipanese rst. The "Tenshin Nippo" reports hat the arrested men will be tried on gambling charges and will probably be meted out severe punishment.
A campaign to discourage gambling erring the Japanese residents was launched by the Japanese consular authorities e time ago and all Japanese naticaals were particularly warned to keep away from the hai alai, known in Tientsin as the Forum, an Italian-owned enterprise, situated in the Italian Concession Some of the most stubborn habitues had been shadowed and arrested after several cases of embezzlement by petty Japazese office cle not favoured by hai alai's Lady Luck, had come to light. The present, however, is the first case of wholesale arrests.
While the Japanese reports imply that the men were arrested on the Hai Alai premises, the Italian police formally deny that any arrests were made within their Concession and it is understood that the gamblers were shadowed by plain-clothes officers of the Japanese consular police and arrested on their way home, upon eaving the Italian Muzicipal area.—Hav:
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