During the month fifteen murders were committed in the Settlement. Brief details of these crimes are follow:
On March 2 a parcel containing the heed and lower portion of the body of a Chinese child was found in the Wayside District, On the same slay the hay of a Chinese who had veen shot was discovered in. the Pooto Road district. On March 3 4 Chinese who appeared to be of the loafer type was shot dead. in the Yangtszepoo district. On. March 4 a Chinese was shot Head off Ping. Range Road (0.0 ouch with a" repo criminals and this have been the motive for his as ination, On March 6 in an attempt frustrate armed robbers, an aged hinese was shot and fatally wound. fed. On Match 14 in a lodging house the Louza district, three Chinese were fatally. shot by' unknown Fons, The victims were member [the Kiangyin Volunteer Corps (an anti-Communist force), and it is be~ lieved their assassination was executed by agents of a Communist organization. On March 16 a Chin ese shop assistant was fatally shot armed robbers in the Wayside
fan elderly Chinese was fount in trict. On, March 20 the Body gf unoccupied house in the Bubblinge Well district. Deceased, a shopkeeper from Nantao, was abducted fon February 25 ard subsequently shot by his captors owing to no ransom being forthcoming.
March 20 an employee of the Chins Japan Cotton Mill was shot dead on Robison Roat (0.0.L.) This crime attributed to deceased's connec tions with a former official of the Shanghai Labour Unifieation Com. mittee who was" murdered on February 29. On March 22 another employee of the same mill was sassinated in the same district. On March 26 a forewoman employed at the Dong Shing Cotton Mill, Gordon Raad, was shot dead in the Pootoo Road district.
On March 27 a mill hot dead in the same arch 20, as the result of an altercation, a riesha coolie was stabbed ty death by a Japanese Marine.
Seven attempted murders were also recowted, robbers being the miscreants in four eases, and attacks fon mill workers by hirelings of labour agitators contribute the remaining three.
Of 21 persons arrested during the murder, fourteen were connection with various rill asso: concerned in the shooting affray in the West Hongkew district February 29, which resulted in the death of tio Peticemen and the wounding of three other persons; one Yor the murder of a Chinese whose body was found in the Gordon Road district on February 21; one for murder com.o4 last year ang two
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