By posing as police affeers, a foreigner' and five Chinese endeavoured {o secure the sum of $1,000 by fraud from the occupants of a Chinese house in Moulmein Road on February 16," At about 330 pan, the Me mates of the house, situated at No.
Lane 305° Moulmein Road, were siarlled by a sudden thunderous knocking on the door. When the door was opened, the six impostors forced their way in, under the pretext of being police ofllcers eng-'Syed on a search for heroin.
Once in the house, however, they soon showed their true colours, by demanding the sum of $1,000, The Seared house-holder was unable to fay his hands on such a Targe sum, and finally offered them $400, which they took and then left. By the the the real police had been summoned, the impostors had vanished, Four persons in Canton guilty of espionage in favour of foreign nationals were executed there on February 19.
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