The Archive · 1940

Rate Increase Will Revive Rent Fight

Chinese Believe That Higher Rentals Will Follow

The 50 per cent. of the municipal by will lousing problem city. It is predicted that after two months, the rental controversy will break out anew because landlords C.P.C.s Exchange Shots With Chinese Gunmen Two Chinese constables attached to Gordon Road police station were fired upon by several suspects at about 1045 p.m. on Saturday evening when they were on patrol duty on Connaught Road. The C.P.C.s drew their pistols and one of them fired a shot in the direction of the gunmen who d im Yao Jao Pang alleyway outside the jurisdiction of the SMP. No injuries were sustained on either side, and as the criminals disappeared into Chinese territory, P.C.s were unable to give chase.

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