'The shooting, however, resulted in alarm being sounded' and police reinforcements hurried to the seen The bandits fled through the French Concession and following a prolonged chase managed to escape.
Later in the morning, another group of bandits kidnapped—the eleven-year-old son of Mr. Chin Hung-chi, compradore of Messrs. Wilson & Ca, while the boy was en route to school in the French Concession, Seizing the young boy, the bandits climbed into 'a waiting motor-car and sped away. The incident, how. ever, was observed by the police who pursued the kidnappers who drove into the Japanese Concession where the Japanese police joined in the chase.
Alarmed at this turn of events, the gangsters abandoned their cap: tive and fled, but the Japanese police who were close on their heel managed to arrest two of them, the others eseaping—Reuter.
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