The general objective was to arrest ermed men but should any escape the lines were so placed that they would be driven towards the Soochow Creek. Inhabitants were terrorized at the appearance of the troops and the police who indiscriruinately roused inmates of the squalid huts and, if necessary, smashed in the doors. A house to house search resulted. Every Municipal officer wore a steel waistcoat—ir. other words 370 protective garments were worn by Council policemen who took the initstive in obtaining entrance to each house or hut, Bach of the twenty parties proceeded methodically in their work. When a house and its inmates had been examined a special chalk mark design was placed at the entrance so that the mopping-up parties would not have to make a second search.
The raids, however, resulted in the discovery of no arms or apparent gangsters.
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