$17,000: Hold-up in the Street From Our Own Correspondent, Tsingtao, Jan. 1.
A daring daylight highway robbery wae committed on December -20, immediately outside the Railway Administration building. A motorcar in charge of a Japanese clerk named Okano and two Chinese drivers was conveying cash amounting to $17,000 to the Yokohama Specie Bank, and immediately after leaving the gate of the railway offices, a handcart was pushed in front of the car, and three Chinese robbers held up the occupants with revolvers.
The Chinese assistant driver was thrown off the car, and Mr. Okano was threatened by two of the robbers and told to clear off. The driver was retained to handle the car, and was ordered to proceed to a place near the Middle School. Here, one of the robbers got out, taking with him all the paper and silver dollars. The driver was forced to go on to the foreign cemetery, where the other two men the robber had come up from the; Kueichow border, swept northward to the Great East Road and on to decamped? with the copper and small money.
Meantime, the Japanese assistant Diendjang, gathering into his net/had reported the matter at the as he went along fishes big and Railway Administration offices, and little. At this latter place he was the news was telephoned to police
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