Gamblers
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Police Raid On Indonesian
NOUMEA. April 30 rpONKINESE and Javanese workers in J_ New Caledonia are inveterate gamblers. With their present rates 0 f pay, which some of them by no means justify, their opportunities for gambling are greater than before, The police occasionally raid their gatherings, and then quite a scramble takes place. Recently, at the Ballande compound at St. Louis, a police swoop caught eight Tonkinese flat-footed while others bolted through every available window, leaving behind them a lot of soiled currency, and many bottles of wine and beer.