The Archive · 1939

Loot Divided

With regard to the holdup of the foreigners on December 28, the de-{ained man said that his part of the loot consisted of a Parker fountain pen, a wallet and several small objects of a minor value, he also said that in lieu of remuneration, each he who had participated, was given The stolen articles, both in this holdup and in other crimes in which ihe gang had participated, were invariably disposed of by a certain Chinese who is consequently presumed to have been the brains of the gang. He is the man who was seriously injured in the Tunsin Road shooting affray and it was he who was treated by the Chinese physician who had been forced to look after him at the point of a gun.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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