Enormous Haul Made by Police at Hotel in Canton Road In a raid sen placidity, the poli day afternoon arrested 54 Chinese, four of whom were females, sufté at the Tsing Wa Hotel in Canton Road used as a rendezvous for what is believed to he one of the "foremost armed Kidnapping gangs operating in Shanghai. Fot-lowing information received frore those arrested another maid was staged on a lodging house in the Yangtszepoo district later in the and six additional members of were gathered in police The authorities sre extremely reticent about smoking public any details of the affair, but known that among those cortulled la the first expedition were two ring: leaders of the gang who dressed and posed as wealthy merchants and on one was found a letter intended for the parents of a prom posed victim in which the price of freedom for the prey) was set at $100,000, The in sively dressed and from us the police believe the gang to be one of first calibre in the scope of their operations, Though the place had been under varveillanee for some time the actual raid came following the receipt by the police of an anony: mous letter,, supposedly from disgruntled, member of the party, who spoke of a coming conference when the entire lot would be present, Another tip had been received by the police that the party was composed of active communists, but the raid di this to be imei The belief is that this tip was iven mainly for the purpose of getting the police interested with the vocations of the gang to be discovered in the natural course of the raid.
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