Jewellery to the value of 81,600 was secured by a gang of four robbers in the West Hongkew district on Monday evening. The robbery occurred at 6.30 o'clock, but it was not reported to the police until an hour later, 80 of course the culprits are still at large. Another robbery might have occurred in the same district at 8.15 o'clock, but in this case an alarm was raised and the robbers fled.
The jewellery robbery occurred at a Ohinese residence at 185 Elgin Road. Four men, two of whom were armed with revolvers, entered the house and %=A no difficulty in intimidating the only occupants, an old woman, an amah and several children. They took the jewellery and left the house without raising any commotion. The occupants, apparently too frightened to stir out of the house, made no report of their loss until 7.35 o'clock, by which time the gang had a good hour's start of the police.
At 8.15 o'clock a gang entered a Chinese house in an alleyway off Haining Road, but their robbery plans were frustrated by the oe who shouted for help and this caused the robbers to run awl 841
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