A series of armed highway robberies took place on Columbia Road between 825 p.m. and 835 pin. on December 28, when five motor cars, four of which were occupied by foreigners, were held up by a gang of seven male Chinese all armed with pistols. Money and jewellery to the value of $2,789 was stolen from the occupants of the five motor cars. Several of these bandits have since been arrested by the Police in a series of raids made in territory abutting on Municipal roads.
There was one bomb outrage during the month. On November 12, a parcel purporting to contain a book was left in a Chinese hotel on Weihaiwei Road and not claimed for several days. It was opened by the hotel personnel, on December 3, when
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