Sometimes, however, the robbers are rather too venturesome, as in the lease of three men who entered a shop at 568-5 Yunnan Road and held up the occupants, including several customers. One robber, armed with pistol, went to the back of the counter and started to pull open the drawers. At this juncture and of the customers managed to get outside and shouted for help. Not having had sufficient time to get anything, the robbers, at this, were forced to flee empty-handed.
The Inst ease recorded is of two armed Chinese, dressed in foreign clothes, and accompanied woman, Who entered 271 Palhot Road at 9.30 pin. The sole oe" cupants of the premises at the time were two females, and these the robbers intimidated and stripped of their little cash and jewellery, amounting to $17, One of tha;|women raised an alarm, and the robbers decamped with their booty. On these occasions it is frequently, the women who prove the bravest.
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