Shanghai, July 6.
'Woo Hiao-ching, one of a trio of burglars who stole nine electric: motors, valued at_ $2,700, from the authorities will hold lengthy con-premises of the China 'Book' Co.|sultations, plant at 130 Dalny Road on June] 28, pleaded guilty "to the charge against him in the First Special District Court yesterday. Woo. admitted selling seven of the motors fo an unknown hawker on Peking! Road for $200. The case was ad-"journed until next week, Trafficking in Women Shanghai, July 8.
Charged with an offence against the institution of marriage, a mid-die-aged Chinese woman, Song Wang-sz, was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday Ju connection with the alleged tref Acking in a country girl whom she bought and forced to become a member of a house of ill-fame. Judge Hsiao promptly ruled that the victim mized girl be turned over to a philan-tropic body for proper care and that the woman be detained pending further investigations.
The story of the victimized girl, Wu Kweiedee, is a pathetic one which most of the' brothels in Shanghai can tell. The war forced her' to leave her native district of Changshu. She went to Soochow where ast month she met a seemingly good. natured) woman who. promised her work in Shanghai. She was told that by being an amah in Shanghai she could earn her own living and so she came here with the trameker in women, who is still at large.
After arriving here and without her knowledge she was secretly sold to the accused woman who keeps a brothel at 898 Avenue Edward VIL The old woman who once promised her work and who took. her to 'Shanghai has since disappeared with $150 in her pocket. A few days later Biss Wu began to realize that she had' met disaster. She was wise enough to go secretly to the police the other day to tell her story. A raid was soon carried out resulting Im the arrest of the accused woman and the police are looking for accomplices.
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