Officers Foreigners sin Chinese Clerical and Tea-allowers 187 ching Staff 49
236
Total 2,242 The month of December was a busy one for the Police and was not wishont a certain amount of anxiety. In ordinary crimes there are 17 armed robberies and 3 highway robberies to be recorded. In one of these a robber was shot by a foreign constable at a muse} not far from the scene of the robbery, and in another a man was arrested who has been tried and handed over to the Militery Court for punishment. A large pumper of arrests have also been made in connexion with some of the other cases. The parties arrested hat not yet been dealt with by the Court.
Wong Ming-sai and Wong Siaufoong, convicted of the murder of Adwiral Tseng Ju cheng on November 11, were executed at the Arsenal on December 7.
A man named Mau Tien, who was arrested on September 2, 1915, for murder which occurred on October 11, 1914, was tried at the Mixed Court and remitted to the Arsenal where he was executed on December 28.
Ordinary larcenies show an increase over the previous month, but are normal when compared with the same month of 1914. 400 cases were reported and investigations were made with successful results in 110 instances.
'A second bomb explosion occurred at the offices of the "Asiatic Daily News" on December 17 caused by a bomb being placed on the upper verandah fronting the Shantung Road. The damage done was pot great, bat as the matter is still under im tion it would be Premature to make any statement regarding the occurrence, In the previous case which occurred at the same UN
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