More than 24 hours after the event, details reached the Municipal Police on July 12 of the robbery of bank messenger in the central district of the Settlement. The formation given was tha on July 11 a coolie was sent from a bank in the Chinese City to deliver to a native bank off Honan Road a bag containing $3,000 notes and a cheque for Tis, 3,000, He had accomplished the greater part of his journey successfully, and was virtually within a few feet of his destination—the bank being in an alleyway off the thoroughfare the messenger what was in the Persuasion towards an answer was applied by a pistol, the muzzle of which was stuck unpleasantly into the man's ribs, and he handed over the bag with all its contents, The daylight robber calmly walked off with the proceeds, but, althougen within a comparatively' short. tance of the Central Police Station, no report of the robbery was made until on July 12. Inquiries into the case are now proceed Anutut residents in Shanghat have telegraphed to Nanking recommending that the special tax on sugar and candies. should be cancelled in order that the production and use of national goods may be encourage Acconptixe to the Chinese newspapers, the Commissioner of Forekgn 19 been successful in his 3 with the Shanghai Municipal Council for the restoration of several hundred pistols and rifles which were taken from the defeated Shantung-Chihli soldiers during their retreat from Shanghai in March, 1927, before the Nationalist forces. These arms have been handed to the Bureau of Public. Safety for distribution among different stations,
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