Shanghai, Oct. 2.
Shanghai robbers have learned. new tricks from the present hos~ tilities.
At O o'clock yesterday morning five Kompo men went to a Chinese house at 944 Avenue Foch with evil intent. Two of them produced pistols, but a third non-Chalantly drew a "potato-masher" hand-grenade from his gown and waved it in front of the terrified residents.
Needless to say, the robbers had little dimeully in getting what they wanted. They departed with money, Jewellery and Slothing to the total value of $4,000, puttees and sand shoes. Ride and machine-gun fire does not perturb him. Shells bursting one hundred yards away and throwing up stones and gravel which fall all around him, matter not at all, He fs not a chatty person, "When questioned, he admitted that he was a member of the 88th Division. Of other information he was singularly uncommunicative, His comrades, seen passing in and out of alleyways leading from Paoshan Road to North Szechuen Road. were mostly clad in khaki. They seemed indifferent to what was going on around them, and even the burst ing of a Japanese shell—which happened every few seconds—did not make them look up.
'A few Japanese shells fell unpleasantly close to the Settlement boundary, shattering the buildings struck and scattering debris far and wide, After the shelling the roads inside the Seltlement were littered with-shell fragments, mostly small Shanghai, Oct. 2.
'With a view to promoting international friendship, a group of lead~ ing Chinese citizens including Mr, XK. P, Chen, Mr. Singloh Hsu, Me. Li Ming, Mr.O. S. Lieu, Mr,' Tsuyce Pel, Mr. P. W. Tsou, Mr. Chi Tse Jand Dr. Herman C. E. Liu are Jorganizing a Cosmopolitan Club in JShanghal. The inaugural meeting will be held at Park Hotel Wednesday, October 6, at 12.15 Jwhen Mr.. K. Yui, the Mayor, will address the meeting.
The Club is to hold regular monthly luncheon meetings, while special meetings may be arranged by the executive committee. The membership. will be limited to 30, it reported. Among those who have joined the new organization are: Messrs. John Alexander, Henri Bar, Michel Breal, Louis" Chevretton, Randall Gould, Eh. Grosbois, Louis HLouzier, B. T. Nash, C. W. Petitt, W.
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