Thieves is Honoured Private S. A. Anderson, of East Surrey Regiment, was yes day presented with a silver cigarette case, suitably inscribed, for having been responsible for the arrest of two shop-lifters on the premises of the Sun Ca., the corner of Nanking and Vu Ya Ching Roads on April 2
The presentation was made at the Police Club by Major K. M. Bourne who told the recipient, in a few well-chosen words, how much his ce-operation had been appreciated The two shop-lifters arrested by Anderson, had as will be recalled, taken a roll of cloth valued at $89 and were about to escape down the stair-case when the alarm was raised. Anderson on seeing the fleeing men, guve chase and was finally able to apprehend them, handing them over to a policeman on duty outside the building.
The handsome cigarette case, on which the crest of the S. M. P. is mounted, bears the following inscrip tion: "Presented to Private Anderson, The East Surrey Regt., for sei vices rendered to the Shanghai Municipal Police, April 2, 1939."
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