The Archive · 1938

TWO HOUSES

One Band Armed with Four Automatic Weapons Two robbery gangs were active in the western district of the International Settlement last night Five men, two of whom displayed Mauser pistols and two, automatics of a smaller type, looted a coal shop at 67 Hart Road, taking money and other property to the total value of about $400.

'A gang of seven armed men escaped with an undetermined amount of plunder from a house in Lane 1034, Hart Road.

No shots were fired in the course of the two robberies.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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