The Archive · 1938

MORE ARRESTS MADE IN "PIRATE" ROUND-UP

Seventeen more Chinese were arrested by detectives from Yangtszepoo Police Station yesterday in connection with the attempted robbery of the American Securities Corp. godown in Lay Road early Friday morning. Fifty-four suspects were arrested by the police and Japanese Naval Landing Party patrols which came to the assistance of the detective party, most of these arrests being made on the spot. The Chinese all came over from Pootung in junks, and were believed to number eighty or more,

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