The existence of lange number of well-organized gangs. of kid papers, who have preyed' on the better. class Ohinese citizens of Shanghai during 1927 and during January and February'of this year, is still causing great alarm among well-to-do Chinese. No person, once the criminals have decided to remove from the Settlement, seems immune, "and he who may have received a threatening letter opt in such a state of mind, that Me becomes. an easy victim, when, the kidnappers place their net about him. "In some instances letters Trave not been delivered, the gang acting without warning.
The police are aware of the condltions, well knowing that gangs apparently operate in open definase of the law, bat are helpless to Drevent a recurrence of weekly, raids, because of the frame of mind potential victims, who prefer to take their chanees than to disobey orders of the gang. leaders, who threaten dire vengeance on' their families, should they inform the horities,
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