Report of a daring robbery alleged to have taken place in the Jessfield district was made at Bubbling Well station on Wednesday morning. The information given was that a representative of the Likin Office in the Chinese city, in charge of $300 in silver and $200 in notes, was proceeding along Vu Yuen Road in a ricsha and, on reaching the corner of Taiping Road was held up by four Chinese who drove up in a motor car. One of them carried a pistol. The Likin man was bundled out of his ricsha into the car, which was then driven off at a fast pace. After proceeding for a considerable distance into the country, the car was stopped and the Likin man_permitted to alight, the four Chinese immediately turning the car in the direction of the Settlement. The official walked back and reported the matter at headquarters, his story then being handed on to the police at Bubbling Well station.
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