Three armed men met with the police off Harbin Road station early on Weinesday morning, and after an exchange of shots, one of the men was captured, whilst it is believed that another was wounded. The tenants of the house at, 301 Sawgin Road lost about $130" in valuables.
According to the story of the victims, a Chinese appeared at the door and asked to use the telok phone. As he came in his confederates followed him, and drawing their pistols, herded the inmates into a room." The tenant locked the stair-cease, but when the bandits throatento shoot his daughter if he did not open it, he permitted them to come upstairs.
'They gathered thei lobt, but in the meanwhile one of the' woman had slipped out the back door and informed a constable, -who engaged the robbers as they loft the house. In the running fight which ensued, the constable fired six shots. The robbers fired twice, one of the bullets grazing the other's long coat, He gave chase and arrested one. At the Provisional Court on Thursday evidence of arrest was given and accused was remanded, THe local Chinese authorities have ordered an investigation the affairs of the Commission for the Unification of Labour Unions, it having been alleged that those im charge abused their authority and cheated the labourers, Mu, Shih Ying, who relinquished his directorship of the Kiangnan Arsenal on Monday, was fired ab by two would-be assassins, near St. Catherine's Bridge, at 11 am, that day. Although the bullets. broke the windows, neither he nor other occupants of the car were won
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