Bringing to a successful conclusion a brilliant series of swift raids which have roped in 57 men and nineteen pistols, in addition to 9 quantity of Jammunition, Settlement " detectives from Central Police Station handcuffed three men in Hankow Road early on March 20. Leading the posse of detectives were Detective Inspector A, Telfer and Detective 'Sub-Inspector J. J. Ross, both of whom have been hot on' the tracks Jof the armed gong since the grim chase began, and have been mainly responsible for the successful coups Which resulted in the entire gang being put safely behind iron bars.
Chinese residents of the Settlement Jand Concession have reason to heave sighs of relief that these 57 dungerous characters will menace them no more. The yang has been carrying out armed robberies and other forms of crime. in the foreign areas for a considerable period, and their total haul is said to be in the neighbourhood of $200,000, As is customary in cases of this nature, where the gang use both the Settlement and the Concession as bases of operations, the police of wunieipalities have been coi closely in the rounding up Jof the Tawabreakers, and it is no small measure due to the assistance tivities of this dangerous gang ure now concluded fence ud) for all Two Monthy Searel Over the week-end, eleven of the Ing were arrested, seven being seized on March 18. Thus Is brought to a highly successful" contusion operations which have extended over two months, during which detectives from the French and Settlement police have been combing Shanghai ooking for the hideous of the armed made such period of gang has scorned the tactics used by smaller of entering the dwellings of poorer class Chinese, and making off with a few dollars, or a handful of inexpensive jewellery. The gang has been concentrating almost "exclusively on the more'Iucrative elds serumed eclat, setting al kona few hundred dollars as a result of ich robbery, The yang is stated to be composed of especially brilliant—criminals. Three of them, for insi: nee, viewed by. a. North-China Daily News" reporter. at Central Police Station, might be taken for" men of the coolie class, being attired in rough garb. Their appearance certainly did not give a hint of the cunning minds" which lay behind three dull. pairs of eyes, or of the:
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