Already Mr. Wu is getting results. A few violators of the firearms ordinance have been arrested, but by far the majority of criminals have been afraid to venture abroad with revolvers on their persons, and as a result there have been very few major crimes since the new police department policy went into effect. However, on the Sth, there was an open fight on the Canton River near Fong Chui between a band of some 10 robbers (who had just looted a rice she carrying off money and many bags of rice) and the river police. In the first place, seeing a suspicious looking boat, the police ordered it to stop, and they were at once fired on by the bandits, who wounded two officers. The police withdrew to secure reinforcements, and later, their number having been augment. ed, they returned and again engag ed' the bandits. Because the robbers' boat was so built that its occupants were protected from the' bullets fired by the river police, while the boat belonging to the lat ter was an ordinary foreign-style boat, the fight was altogether ided, and the police were obliged to withdraw, the robbers Of Into many thieves opera Canton have been using motor cars to faci their escape. To meet this ion, Mr. Wu, the has purchased a number of motorcycles with alde-cars, and a new division of police has been created, its members being assigned to the task of running down the thieves who attempt to get away from the scenes of their crimes in fast-moving machines. For several days now we have been watching the drivers of theca motorcycles learning to operate them, running up and down the wider streets of Canton,
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