Jan, 17, Armed robbers continued active on the week-end in various parts of the International Settlement.
Two robberies which occurred on Saturday evening were reported to the Police yesterday. One was the looting of a rice shop at 19 Connaught Road by a gang of six men speaking the Shantung dialect, Money and clothing were taken, the total "value of the loot being about $200. "In the other case, a small Amount of clothing was stolen in an alleyway' off Jessfield Road by three men who also spoke the Shantung tongue.
'A large haul was made shortly before daylight yesterday at House 20, 'Lane 23, Gordon, mond, where four men of Kompo type obtained $1,300 in cash at the points of two Pistols, and escaped, Detective Sub-Insp. J. McPhee, of Louza Station, who' was shot and seriously wounded by bandits Tas Friday evening, continued to Improve yesterday inthe Country Hospital. Besides being wounded in the head, hho was shot several times in the lees and it is feared that one of the leg tendons "may have been severed. Generally speaking, however, his condition ig\ satisfactory.
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