at Minghong Planned Four Months Ago Since there is reason to believe The hold-up at the Post OMice was carefully planned by a criminal organization of Kompo men and women whose first meeting was held in May, in a house in Sinza Road. There meetings, in the course tails of the "perfect worked out. It was Geclded to import gunmen from the Kompo area to participate in" thi actual raid on the Post Offce, and 9 scheme of splitting the spalls was agreed upon. The pistols used in the "Mausers of -38 ealibre—likewis were Imported from Kompo for the occasion and were sent back to their lace of origin by boat a few hours after the crime had been. committed. Tracing these weapons is one of the: Important and difficult tasks now facing the police, The Post Office compound, in which the robbery was perpetrated, policed by the Bureau of Public Safety, but the investigation of the crime was entrusted to the police of International Settlement, whose detectives have now arrived ata point where the apprehension of the Fingleaders appears to be only a matter of days. Twelve days atter the commission of the crime, while tone of the victims still was in. hospital in a serious condition, the police licked up a definite lead." With th ce-operation of the River Polic went on board a river steamer fying. the British flag and, just before salling time, "succeeded in making important arrests and seizing goods believed to have been purchased with 4 portion of the loot.
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