Gang Rounded up for Abduction, Murder The "pre-war", mystery which surrounded the kidnapping of Mr. Hong Yi-shing, wealthy proprietor of an iron works, last August, was solved yesterday morning when Settlement, detectives found his skeleton in Chapei where his body had been cleverly concealed by his murderers. The discovery completed a case on which Crime Branch Headquarters had been working painstakingly for ten months and which the hostilities all but obliterated.
Mr. Hong was kidnapped on August 3 while he was riding in his private rickshaw in Range Road. "who -flourished pistols spirited him sway, and the gang later demanded a half million dollars for his release., Needless to say, his relatives were able to raise this amount on short notice' The police were called on the case immediately. They had saved Mr. Hong once before, in 1925, when he was kidnapped by another gang, whose members were arrested.
Whatever clues the police obtained immediately aiter the more recent case, were rendered useless by the hostilities which started in Chapei ten days after the crime. The gang, wishing to take.no chances, simply shot their victim, on August 12, and set about disposing his body so as io defy detection. With great cunning they selected a weed-grown field in the near vicinity of the Japanese Landing Party Headquarters, Kiang-Conte Rosso Arrives in Port wan Road.
The damaged bows of the Conte Rosso, which arrived in port yesterday The spot was off Kwangtsung Read, after running aground on Fishetman's Rock, 69 miles out from the bout 200 yards west of Kiangwan Woosung pilot station, The Italian liner: is leaving shortly for Hong-Road, as innocent and neglected kong for repairs, looking a place as could be imagined, with wild plants growing waist-high suspects Picked Up Passengers in Confusion as Last Sunday and Monday Detective Sub-Inspectors Pryde, Crighton and Soong Ping-sung rounded up four
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.