July Total Only Fourteen in Settlement The Commissioner of Police, Shang hai Munelpal Council, reports that the oral of 1,799 cases of crime dealt with by the Police during July: shows a decrease of 33 In compari son with that for June and an increase of 807 as compared with the gute for the corresponding month last year. Arrests for" crimes committed show an increase as compared with last month and a decrease in comparison with the figures for May, 1.498 persons having been. ape prehended "in July og against 1448 in June and 1,690 in May. In addllon 96° persons were taken into custody for crimes. commited previous months. Seventy-six per-Sons were arrested on behalf" of other authorities, One case of murder accompanied. by armed robbery was reported. A male Chinese was held up by two armed men in Penang Road and robbed "of $800; he was fatally wounded by a shot fired at him by one of the robbers. One arrest was effected and the prisoner" was "on Fernand at the end of the month, One case of attempted murder was reported. A Chinese female was stabbed in the stomach with a meat chopper by her husband, Disagteement over money matters was the motive for this offence. The culprit was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment,
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