Over the week-end, eleven of the gang were arrested, seven being seized on Friday. Thus is brought io a highly successful conclusion operations which have extended over two months, during which detectives from the French and Settlement police have been combing Shanghai looking for the hideous of the armed desperadoes who have made such huge hauls during their period of activity. This particular gang has scorned the tactics used by smaller fry of entering the dwellings of poorer class Chinese, and making off with a few dollars, or a handful of inexpensive jewellery. The gang has been concentrating almost exclusively on the more lucrative fields of armed crime, netting at least a few hundred dollars as a result of each robbery, The gang is stated to be composed of especially brilliant criminals. Three of them, for instance, viewed yesterday by a "North-China Daily News" reporter at Central Police Station, might be taken for men of the coolie class, being attired in rough garb. Their appearance certainly did not give a hint of the cunning minds which lay behind three dull pairs of eyes, or of the thousands of dollars which each must have been apportioned as his share of the enormous booty which this gang has succeeded in amassing during recent months. Quite correctly, these men suspected that if they dressed according to the means at their disposal, and were seen by sharp-eyed detectives loafing during the daytime, with no legitimate occupation, embarrassing questions might Be asked. To save any enquiries of this kind, they were content to put on coolie clothing to hide their real identities.
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