Another most daring armed kid-rapping affair, resulting in the abduct tion of a small boy, the son of Mr. Yang, resident at 85 Avenue Road, occurred on Friday last week. Six men, all armed with pistols entered the house shortly before 9 p.m. where they terrorized the inmates and took away a small child of four years old.
Cot. Chang Tz-ying, Commissioner Shanghai and Woosing—Constabulary, has ordered his subordimates to take proper measures to prevent the Shanghai Municipal authorities from extending their roads into Chinese territory, instruc-[tions to this effect having been re-ived from the Civil Governor of Kiengau. The usual arguments of encroachment" and "breaches of Chinese sovereign rights" are still being used, notwithstanding that {the Council is fully entitled under ithe Land Regulations to buy land for the purpose of making roads.
Mr, Yang, it appears, tried to terfere and to persuade' the robbery to leave, threatening to give the alarm. Some kind of a quarrel Jensued and a number of shots were fired, as the result of which Mr. Yang was wounded in the left shoulder and arm. He was removed to the Paulun Hospital. The robbers then made their escape, no alarm being given to the police till some time aft They left behind them one pistol which was Jdiscovered when the police visited Hehe scene. Nothing has yet been heard of the kidnapped child.
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