The police are gradually rounding up these dangerous characters but they are much handicapped owing to the fact that in the majority of cases where Chinese are robbed no alarm or outcry is made at the time, and the robbery is only reported to the police some time Inter when the victims happen to think of it. An example of this is found in the case of an armed robbery on Saturday night st 202 Yuenfong Road. Two men, one of whom was armed with a revolver, entered the shop and by intimidate ing the inmates secured 75 and got away, going toward Hanbury Road. Everything was quietly done, and no alarm whatever was made by thuse who were robbed, and the manager of the shop could give no description of the robbers. Three occupants at the rear of the shop knew nothing of the robbery, nor did those in a pawn-shop directly opposite. Even the constable in the police box only 100 yards away from the robbed shop knew nothing about the affair until he was informed about twenty minutes later.
The Municipal Police with the assistance of the police of the French Concession on Sunday arrested in the French Concession three men who are charged with being concerned in an armed robbery in Penang Road, which is in the Gordon Road police district on the outskirts of the Settlement. The men were identified by two articles of clothing in their possession which
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