Italian and Three Frenchmen from: the M. M. $. Amboixe 'One Italian and three French se men, suspected to have been smug fling arms, and ammunition aahorg from the M.M.S, Amboise, are in, custody, following an exciting chase' in which the Settlement and River police participated.
Shortly after 6.45 p.m. on Thursday, while playing tennis in the Yangtszepoo Police station compound, several members of the Municipal Police were surprised by the direct minute later four foreigners were seen to land from a sampan, They ran to a vacant plot near the police station, followed by a Riveer police man and Chinese constables, who effected the arrests.
The Chinese River policeman afterwards reported that while patrolling the stream in his sampan, he saw another sampan, with the foreigners on board, put off from the Amboise, Suspicion that they. might be arms smugglers led him to pursue the craft. Presently the foreigners threw a quantity of pistols and ammunition overboard. He chased them, whereupon they made for the jetty, which proved their undoing.
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