London, Nov. 30.
The Anglo-Japanese incident on Hongkpng's border last Saturday now doncidered as settled, authorit tive quarters declared today.
The competent British circles are convinced that the incident, in which Japanese soldiers infringed upon the British colony limits, was due wholly to an error of the' Japanese commander The latter apologized upon finding out his mistake, however, and gave adequate assurances against a repetition of such occurrences, it is pointed out.
Furthermore, the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, in Tokyo also gave satisfactory assurances to Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan—Hava:
Seven robber suspects were brought yesterday on a writ of detention in ~onnection with the armed robbery committed on November 22 in Wang aosen's residence in 122 Amoy Road. The alleged leader of the gang was arrested early yesterday morning thus bringing up the total number of men arrested in connection with the same se to eight.
The alleged gang leader named Chu Keng is to appear in court to-day. The seven suspects were arrested n a Chinese residence in the French Concession by the Louza police cooperating with the French police. They were found in possession of one pistol. one imitation pistol, two knives and seven rounds of ammunition.
Tt was revealed in court that one of the seven men was a tenant living n the house of the victim indicating that the robbery might be an inside fob. The Police Prosecutor told the judge that the tonant in question named Kuo Chi-hsien was very suspicious since he was seen chatti with the other suspects at the time his arrest, The Amoy Road crime, it will be recalled, was committed at about 10.30 o.m. when most of the members of the victim's family were asleep. Several gunmen broke into the house and, after applying the usual methods of intimidation, they searched for valuables and escaped later with a booty consisting mainly of jewellery worth several hundred dollars.
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