These captures by the police proved a severe blow to Sian Koko and during 1926 his gang was not opes ting seriously here. In March 127, however, he himself came to Shi hai with the Nationalist Army. He had a number of friends among the officers in the army', made probably' stayin Canton, and he uor's shop close to the Chapei Military Hendquarte There is nothing to prove that. his military friends knew who he was or what was his business. It is Probable that they simply regarded him as an old friend and supporter they were glad to meet again. Still, Sian Koko availed himself to the full of this influential support, and Inapping broke out again in Shanghai with renewed fury, Then followed the second of the big raids on the gang by the police. It is all s0 recent that readers will not have forgotten the sensational made by police in the Dixwell Road, Wayside, West Hongkew, and Lou districts, coming on top of brilliant detective work. In. the trial of these persons the case against Sian Koko was strengthened, but Sian Koko himself was not arrested.
Arrested in ry Guise Police were att him, however, and he was constantly shadowed He renew better than to conte hanghai openly and schemed 8 neighbouring town. Occasionally.
would pay this city a visit, wel! disguised, and after his "arrest admitted once he waited in an alleg-detective it, wa2stion did not pa: that way and Siu Koko was robbed of his But the police were randy for him next time he came to Shanghai. He was arrested in the uniform of 'a Nationalist officer, and a member of his gang was taken as bodyguard. He claimed to belong to the commissarint department of the. army. but inquiries proved that he had no [connection with the military -whatever.
When arrested he was neatly dressed, with long heir after the student fashion. He was a small man with a full, plump face, and slight stammer. A trick of narrow-_ ing his eyes as if he were looking at a bright light was the only thing that distinguished him from the common-place citizen of this country. 'There was nothing' to indicate that hho was one of the most feared and most powerful men in the world! of criminals,
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