Further searches for illegal firearms were carried out in the Settlement yesterday by the Shanghai Police and members of the Russian Regiment, SVE., attached to ithe Police Reserve Unit.
The most spectacular search was made in the Central District, starting at about 10.30 am., when the Russian Regiment threw a cordon about the block bounded by Szechuen, Canton and Kiangse Roads and Avenue Edward VII. While the soldiers, in campaign kit, maintained their lines about the block, the Police, wearing steel waistcoats and with pistols drawn went through the alleyways and houses, searching all suspicious persons. No firearms were founa{ however.
The operations stimulated considerable interest on the part of office workers and passers-by who watched the procedure of search closely, A gang of six Chinese robbed No. 967 Connaught Road at 11 o'clock yesterday morning and escaped with loot of nearly $4000 consisting of money and jewellery. Four of the bandits carried pistols but no shots were fired. The robbers spoke the Shanghai and Ningpo dialects.
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