Armed robberies continue, the sum of $500 and a quantity of opium having been carried off by five a nen from a large shop busiest part of the River Stre and other successful robberies having been effected, The police ave make ing strenuous efforts to capture these miscreants and Inst night they spotted three suspects in the ¢x* British Concession. After following them to a convenient point, the tactives closed in, but only succeded in holding one man, The other two made off and were pursed into the k of the French Concession, There policeman ordered them to stop and levelled his rifle. One man immediately held up his hands and the other raised one, but fired twice from within his clank with the cther hand. Both shots missed the policeman, Whose weapon unforte tunately was not loaded, and before he could do more the' villains de= camped.
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