Shanghai, Dec. 15.
Prompt arrival of police on the scene of a robbery at 813 Gordon Road last night resulted in the arrest of one of the robbers. A gang of five, equipped with a high. powered Mauser pistols and two, Jordinary automatics, had obtained loot worth $1€0 and were about to {fee when policemen arrived. Four lof the men escaped but the fifth was seized. One shot was fred without, however, wounding anyone.
Three bandits got loot valued at }s260 at 650 Vu Yuen Road, and escaped. cers of the 2nd Battalion The East Surrey Regiment were quests at the monthly luncheon of the Zero Club libeld at the Shanghai Club yes terday, Others present "included Vice-Admiral Sir Perey Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the British China Squadron, Sir Herbert Phillips, H.M, Consul-General, and Col, Perretier, Commander of the French Garrisor Shanghai.
Mr. J, D. Watt, Acting President, welcomed the guests and mentioned that the Municipal authorities were removing the remains of British soldiers from the old military com tery in Nantao to Hungjao, where they were being reinterred and a suitable memorial erected to their memory. Among them were the remains of men of the S1st Regiment, which was the former designation of the Ist Battalion of the East Surrey. Regiment, who formed part of the British garrison forces in Shanghai during the operations against the Taiping rebels during the - period 1962-65.
Lieut-Col. Acton replied, thanking the Club for their hospitality, and Col. Perretier. also made a' brief speech.
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