8 Lynchings, However, Reported During Angus Industrial Concerns Closed by War HE Acting Commissioner of Police reports for August that the total of 1,036 cases of crime dealt with by the Settlement Police shows a decrease of 931 in comparison with that for July and a decrease of 761 as compared with the figure for the corresponding month of last year.
The Sino-Japanese hostilities are responsible for the decrease.
Arrests for crime committed show decrease, 766 persons having been attested in August as against 1,363 in July and 1,466 in June.
In addition, 65 persons were taken into custody, for. crimes committed. in. previous months. Eighty-six persons were arrested on behalf of other authorities.
Eight cases of murder were recorded. Two of these cases, in which four persons were killed, were premeditated. The other six were really lynchings and involved eight persons (seven Chinese and an unidentified foreigner) who died as the result of mob attacks, the victims being suspected traitors. Enquiries made into the cases of mobbing which occurred showed that the victims were innocent of any offence against' the laws of this country.
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