A gang of alleged terrorists with their leader was rounded up by the French Police in raids made in the Concession during Friday night and yesterday morning. Six men and a woman were placed in custody, and a Mauser sub-machine gun, an automatic pistol, and over fifty rounds of ammunition were seized.
The raids followed the arrest, on Friday evening, of a Chinese who behaved in a suspicious manner, in Rue Montauban. The suspect. was taken to the nearest French police station and searched. He had in his possession an envelope containing a Mauser, hi u ye man admitted that the "message" had been given ta him by a certain Ko Tien-fou, the leader of a gang of terrorists, who lived at a house in Cité Kien-Gui, Route Frelupt. Immediately a raid was made on this house, resulting in the arrests of Ko and two others, named Ying Kai-song and On Lai-ding. The detectives searched the rooms carefully and discovered a. Mauser sub-machine gun, an automatic pistol and 53 rounds of ammunition.
Questioning of Ko Tien-fou elicited the admission that he was the leader of the band whose practice it was to send the ominous bullet-messages to prominent Chinese in the French Concession. The (we. men arrested With Ko likewise confessed to their part in the scheme, ong of them giving the police the name of another leader of the gang, who is now being sought.
The further suspects believed to be connected with the terrorist plot were arrested yesterday morning in a Chinese hotel in Rue Wagner and a third suspect was seized in Route Frelupt. One of these is a woman.
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