Members of the Special Branch of the SAP. did a smart piece of work Jearly" on' January 12 in "veleasing a kidnapped cotton broker, who had been held for ransom amounting: to $400,000 by a' gang' of armed kidnappers, In smashing in doors land covering their men the police worked. so expeditiously that" they disarmed the guards before they hal time "to. draw" their pistols." The squad "was led by DeteSupt. [Quayle and Det.tnspr. Telfer.
The released man was kidnapped from. his riesha on San. 7 inthe Yangtszepoo District. 'The family duet informed the police of the reumstances. "As a matter of fact they "were conducting negotiations for' the payment of a compromise ransom, as. they thought, without the police being aware of fi.
Information was obtained that part of the " gang. were 1 ina lodging' house. in the Louza area," Well after dark, the oficial "posse. was organised, Equipped "with their usual steel
the Special Squad toft the station in shields and wearing aes! walatconts specially prepared. raiding van, Deploying his men at some distances from their objective, Supt. Quayle rave the order to converge on the edging house and men worked from both sides covering' all exits. Pleke Jed men then rushed the stairs and broke open the door. The ang, there Were three of them, were covered at. once and manacled, A Search of the room revealed one pistol fully loaded, At the station sufficient informs tion' was, obtained from these rant further raids on the houses where it was thought that the victim was being detained, About, midnight the second raid als instituted and by 2 am, the Police were in the general vicinity fof the den, which, it was later learn fed was in' the sector to the north west of Hungjao and. Macleod Roads, behind the Municipal Sano Carcfully-guarded members of the gang, who also were handeuifed, led the oticers to' one of three. shacks, wherein. they alternated keeping their: prisoner. "Stumbling over party of saldicrs—only by way. of ivertissement—who were sleeping behind' grave, the police narrow escaped an armed imbroglio. Wid this satisfactorily settled, they made rushing. raid on the frst' shack, but found it empty.
Cautious tactics wore employed in approaching the second of the three houses. With his men behind, Supt, Quayle crashed through the decry a portion of the party close et, his leds, With powerful torches they. identified kidnappers and viet and had the former shackled before they had opened: their eyes.
Shortly before the seven men were lined up for their trip to the Special District Court, detectives, who had been stationed at the rendezvous, rested an eighth, a gangster, who Imad "come 0 report the: result of his negotiations with the family. itis surprise was noticeable when Wo ay his confederates in the station, Much mystery surrounded the kidnapping on Jan. 7 A. motor ear, engaged on Avenue Edward VIT, was "found. abandoned in Cha The chauffeur reported to' the police that he had driven to Scott Road, had been ejected and was walked germes country by two" guards to Yangtszepoo where they told him to be about his business. In the meanwhile the gang had' used the ar, kidnapped their victim, and had taken him to, parts distant, before the chauffeur had completed his ens forced stroll The "police, thos working me Jdependently ct the family, rescued the victim and returned him to his amily, without their offering any. assistance, Ar the Customs furnaces at the Pootung Point on January 12, the Jopium and other noxious drugs seized by the Customs authorities for the months of October, Novernber and December, valued' at 'Teat= $200,000, were' publicly "burned, Tead a clean, wholesome rife, one must have pure thoughts, In addition to the talk by Mr.
ing and the Headmaster's address, brief outline of the history and [work of the school was given Ma darin by Mr. King Yah-jin, Rec stations were made also by Lee Zur-pau and Chang Ying-fu, while the Rev. G, W. Sheppard present-led the prizes. " Mr. Healey, the former Headmaster, was present guest and was welcomed warmly,
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