The Archive · 1939

Large Gangs Operating

Two other bold robberies were committed yesterday evening. At 6 o'clock seven men, four of whom were seen to be armed, entered 8 silk weaving factory at 48 Zung Chi Li, of Chemulpo Road in Yanglezetwenty employees and' stole money, jewellery and cloth. ing to the total value of about $1,200. This large gang escaped, and no shots were ired.

At G45 o'clock a band of thirteen men, heavily armed, looted a Chinese oth hong in Lane 713, Peking Road, in the Louza district, and carried off the safe which they put into a public rickshaw. They escaped with their loot.

'A Chinese was stabbed in the course of another robbery, in the, Eastern district,

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