In an attempt to round up armed robber suspects, seven parties composed of uniformed and plain-clothes members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, attached to Pootoo Road Station, ar a total of 86 Chinese between 9'and 41 p.m. last night and at the time of going to press, the men were still being questioned with a view to ascertaining whether or not they have been connected with any of the armed robberies perpetrated in this district in recent weeks, Surrounding a large block of houses, the police parties under Inspector J. M. Watson, quietly waited in dark alleyways and searched and questioned the various pedestrians Who passed there. If they were ionnd suspicious, they were immediately sent to the station,
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