Four Chinese were charged with highway robbery while four others were remanded under a writ of detention by the First Special District Court "yesterday.
The first four accused, Zee A-s, Zung Lai-hsing, Chen Tsang-yeu and Moh Zung-zai, were alleged to have dragged into Lane 52 two Seaforth Highlanders who were riding in rickshaws in Mohawk Road at 3 am. yesterday. One of the victims tripped of a wrist watch. They were said to be under the influence of wine.
Settlement Police soon rounded up the men after the receipt of infor-motion from the victims who had followed them to a house in the same street. From their information four additional arrests were made.
Volunteers waved battalion standards in attacking the Republican front lines with the tanks. The infantry came behind the tanks and was also aided by a withering and effective artillery barrage which was turned on the second and third lines after the first line-trenches were captured, the Nationalists claimed.
Corbera, the Nationalists said, is fortified like a huge blockhouse, with automátic rifles set every five yards and with anti-tank guns batteries conveniently placed in guarded spots. The impetus of the Nationalist attack, however, resulted in such a rapid advance that the guns had no time to disable the tanks, the Nationalists said.
Several hundreds of Republicans were killed in the front line, the nationalists reported, As a result of this manceuvre, the Nationalists claimed to have deepened the wedge which is gradually splitting the Ebro pocket into two halves and enabling the Nationalists to operate more cosily in attacking the Republicans on three sides from numerous positions.—United Press.
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