Miss Moncrieff was carrying a considerable amount of money in a handbag which she held by the strap, when one of the men seized it from behind, breaking the strap. His accomplice was about to action when the two _plainclothes policemen started to chase the pair. One of the constables arrested both men, and recovered th> purse with Us contents, valued altogether at $81.
'The two prisoners were taken' to the Bubbling Well Station where tt was found that one of them had in his pocket keys which had been contained in the Chinese lady's handbag. Both are "Kompo""men, aged about 20 years. It is believed they were responsible also for the previous snatchings in the Tifeng Road neighbourhood.
Both suspects were brought before the First Special District Court yesterday morning and remanded for one week, Scout Movement In Shanghai Shanghai, Nov, 16.
An appeal to young men who recently had arrived in Shanghai from Home, and who had been associated with the Boy Scout movement in Great Britain, to join the Shanghai Boy Scouts Association, was made Mr. W. C. Cassels, "Commissioner, when giving the yeatly report at the annual' meeting "of the association held in H. M, Supreme Court yesterday evening.
Sir Herbert Phillips, H.M. Consul-General and President of the Association, occupied the chair, and he was supported by Messrs, G. E. Marden, Vice-President; W, C. Cassels, Com missioner; A. 'H. Gordon, secretary; H. A. Crickmer, badge secretary; and W. J. Hawkings, hon. treasurer, The annual report, which has been published, was read by Mr. Cassels who mentioned the dimeulties with which the association had been beset owing to the Sino-Japanese hostilities, The camp properly on Hungjao Road had suffered considerable damage from shell-fire and other causes con nected with the fighting and a claim for $2,015 had been submitted to H, Consulate-General for presenta. tion, in due course, to the responsible parties,
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