Wealthy Shop Proprietor Carried Off Publicly Four shop assistants and about ten persons in a tea-shop opposite displayed a nonchalant air on No-ember 17 in King Loong Ka, a small thoroughfare connecting Honan and Shantung Roads near to Avenue Edward VIE, when four armed men emerged from a motor car, entered Shop No. 4, forced the proprietor to enter the car Dut thereafter took about ten minutes to make their departure, due to the engine stalling.
As an instance of that lack of spirit amongst the majority of Chinese to "ce-operate with the Police authorities in combating crime, it was a glaring one and the irony of it all was that not more than 50 yards away, in Honan Road, policeman was stationed, who was in a couple of minutes' distance from Central Police Station. If there was any clement of danger in raising an alarm, there might be an explanation, but it was quite an easy matter and one attended with no risk at all for any one of the numerous witnesses of the abduction to have slipped away and informed one of the many police on duty in the vicinity. There is no doubt whatever that, if the Police had been promptly informed of the crime, the whole of the gang would have been arrested.
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