Armed Men Rob Chinese Department First In Car a Few Steps from Manila, Nov. 30. Nanking Road Plans for the nationalization of An armed gang which apparently had "inside" knowledge made a $30,- 000 haul on Shanse Road, à few steps from Nanking Road, at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon and escaped.
The robbery, which was one of the boldest perpetrated in Shanghai in recent months, was carried out by five men, only one of whom actually produced a pistol. This gang surrounded a motor-car in which a Chinese apprentice was transporting $30,000, it, slowed down, in. traffic, and. took the money from him.
The apprentice had drawn the amount at a Chinese bank in Nanking Road and was bound for the shop in which he is employed, at 505 Szechuen Road, near Peking Road. The robbery took place at almost exactly 1 o'clock while there was heavy traffic in Nanking Road and cross-streets, but the bandits nevertheless escaped and separated in the crowd. No shots were fired.
Detectives attached to Central Police Station made exhaustive enquiries and interrogated witnesses. "The descriptions of members of the gang were circulated among the police.
Details of a robbery which took place in a Chinese hotel on Wednesday night were disclosed yesterday. An ermed gang entered a room on the fifth floor of the Great China Hotel, 200 Vu Ya Ching Road, threatened the Chinese occupant and then bound and gagged him. In leisurely fashion the retail trade in the Philippines were temporarily suspended yesterday pending consultations with the Washington State Department; the "Manila Bulletin" said today, quoting authoritative sources of information.
The newspaper said the Interior Department has ordered the municipal plan banning all foreigners except Americans from public markets to be pigeonholed.
The newspaper, quoting the United States High Commissioner to the Philippines, Mr. Francis B. Sayre, 'a reply to the complaint of the Chinese Consul-General, Dr. C. Kuangson Young, against the plan, said, "I am confident that President Quezon will do nothing to violate eny American treaty with any nation."—United Press.
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