Six robbers who displayed three pistols obtained loot worth $450 at a Chinese cotton hong, House 5, Lane 473 Ningpo Road, between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and escaped, No shots were fired, The plunder consisted of money, jewellery and clothing, An hour earlier a Chinese typographical foreman -employed by the "North-China Daily News" had been robbed near the corner of Avenue Edward VII and Kwangse Road by several men posing as a Police search party. The victim, who was ing in a rickshaw with various pre-holiday purchases, lost his hat and $13 in bank-notes. The bandits, who ap. parently were unarmed, escaped by running, and there was no alarm,
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