During Emergency; Twenty Hours' Work Six hundred and sixteen finger prints taken in less than a day, This record, which, is believed to be a world record, was established by the Finger Print Bureau of the Shanghai Municipal Police from am, on Thursday until 2 a.m, yesterday morning, Out of the 616 prints taken, 527 were those of persons arrested as 2 result of Thursday's emergency, and the thirteen members of the Bureau under Detective Sub-Inspector J. C. Dickson were working throughout the day and night in order to cope with the abnormal number of suspects brought in to the police station.
Mhe magnitude of their task can only be realized when it is pointed out that not only have the prints to be taken, but ihe members of the Bureau have to examine each print carefully and compare it with others already taken, Each print must then be tabulated and fled,
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