Early Morning Fatality in Siccawei Road Mr. Theodore Mohr, a young man 22 years of age, employed in the Shanghai office of Messrs.. Carlowitz & Ca., was the victim of a motor-car accident which occurred in Siccawei Road shortly after 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. It appears that, at about 5.20 am, he left the Del Monte Cafe in company with a friend, Mr. G. W. Richter, who is staying at the Burlington Hotel, the two driving off in the motor-car in a westerly direction, towards the French Concession. A fatal accident occurred when the car reached a point, about 150 yards beyond Route Ferguson. According to present information, a ricsha was observed coming from the. opposite direction and in the centre of the road, and in order to avoid it the car was tuned in to the left of the road. The result of a sharp swerve was that the car collided with a tree at the side of the road. The occupants, the two foreigners and a Chinese chauffeur, were thrown violently into the road. Mr. Mohr received very- serious injury and though conveyed with all speed to the Red Cross hospital, which_ is close at hand, died before the arrival of Dr. Bolton, who was telephoned iv Mr. Richter escap-the Chinese. ed with slight inju: as aliso did Daring Theft at Boyes, Bassett & Ca.
An audacious theft is alleged to have been committed on Monday afternoon at the shop of Messrs, Boyes Bassett in Nanking Road, by a Japanese girl, in foreign dress, and 15 years of age. a After her departure from the shop, a number of gold and silver wrist watches, to the value of close upon -$1,500, were missed. The police were informed, and when the young person was arrested in the evening in the Hongkew district by Det. Sgt. Rogertson, it is stated that she was found to have disposed of several of the watches to a Chinese pawnbroker:
The girl was handed over to the Japanese authorities.
. Tue "Shanghai New Times," a Russian newspaper, reports that Ataman Simionov is about to visit Shanghai, Peking and other parts of China for the purpose of organizing an anti-Bolshevik camp ai in Siberia. uty AFTER an exciting chase in the Wayside district on Tuesday even-"ing, a Sikh and two Chinese police constables captured two Japanese suspected of being interested in the smuggling of arms, The two were found to be in prohibited without permission.
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