YANGTZEPOO, The Municipal Police are at the moment engaged in investigating most serious affair which has occurred in Ward Road in the Yantzepoo district. Here a foreign-built house was a few days ago made the scene of a daring outrage by an armed body of Chinese who succeeded so well in their efforts that they gathered in what was practically lot of the value of about $9,000, The outrage took place in daylight, and it was undoubtedly only the sequestered nature of the district. which enabled them to bring the affair to ssu succcesful a conclusion. The house in question, which is numbered 68 Ward Road, is by no means isolated, foreigners, so that must have drawn their plans with considerable care, choosing the most propitious time, when the foreign neighbours would be the least. likely to perceive their doings.
So excited were the inmates of the house when they were brought face to face with their assailants that it is impossible to gain an
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