Detectives at Louza Police Station were on April 30 investigating the Tobbery of an American citizen who described himself as an actor, in an alleyway off Foochow Road late on April 29, The victim said he was riding in a public rickshaw in Foochow Road at 1130" o'clock when he halted the vehicle, descended and proceeded to buy some cigarettes at the corner of San Yuen Faung. There, ho said, he was surrounded by a gang of four Chinese and pulled into the alleyway, where he was robbed. He reported that one man threatened him with a pistol and another with a club, making him surrender U.$$200 which he had in his pockets. The money was all in twenty-dollar notes, cording to the report.
The victim of the robbery said he was struck by one of the robbers, but was not seriously injured.
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