Four members of the desperate West Fah Hwa Village gang, who had been arrested with several others by the Settlement Police, were at large yesterday after their escape from a "Ta Tao" police station the gang was implicated in a series of bold crimes of recent date in the western outside roads" area.—North-China Daily News, Jan. 27.
The old-world village of West Fah Hwa is a real bit of old China which the march of progress has somehow overlooked. Who would think, looking at its muddy streets on which abut quaint little old hovels brimming over with chubby-faced mites, their frank-faced parents lounging in the background, lowering at the stra er pass. ing by, s and chubby works, splay ted ducks, and scrawny cocks and hens ug their best to trip him up, who—it may be reiterated (the sentence having got rather out of hand)—would think that Fah Hwa West is within a stone's throw, and a feminine one at that, of Shanghai's most modern residential district?
By the way, is your burglary policy in good order?
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