At the Mixed Court last Friday morning, before Mr. A. J. Martin (senior British Assessor) and Mr. Kuan Chun (senior Chinese Magistrate), eight men were brought up on the following charge:—''For that they- at about 10.30 a.m. on November 29, 1923, at Ningpo Road, being: concerned together not yet in custody did by means of armed violence commit a robbery and steal 500 Chinese Government Short Term Loan Bonds, total value $333,500, with intent to make them their own property contrary to Article 374 of the Chinese Provisional Code. Complainant, Tung Yih Trust Ca."
According to evidence given by Det.-Sub-Insp, Yorke and Chinese Detective Ab Keng, shortly after
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