Two further cases of armed robbery were reported to the police on Wednesday night and in each instance the interval between the robbery and the report made to the police gave little opportunity for getting on the track of the thieves. At about 8 o'clock, a man knocked at the door of a house in South Wusih Road, and a little gir] who opened the door. was told there was someone to see Mr. Ling, who lives there. Six or seven men then pushed their way into the house, all of them armed with revolvers. The occupants of the house were gathered together and kept under guard in one room, while the house was searched from top to bottom and in half an hour the robbers collected money and jewellery to the value of $2,350. On leaving the house they fired two shots at random.
The second robbery took place at a pawnshop in Yangtzepoo Road at about 9.30. A man entered and offered a brass watch in pledge. He wanted $2 for the article, the proprietor offered $1 and, after an argument; the man left the shop and returned almost immediately with three other men. Two of them covered the shop master and his assistants with revolvers while $90 was taken from the till. The men then departed.
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