The Archive · 1940

Chinese Employee Robs Japanese Firm

Hot on the trail of Min Ting-cheng, 19, who had been an employee of a Japanese trading firm at 26 Haining Road, from whose safe he had made off with Y.5000 and $25,700, the Japanese Consular Police here on Friday morning arrested another Chien: reported the "Shang-Chinese employee of the firm, Liu

hai Mainichi" yesterday, Saturday.

The arrested man is suspected of complicity in the theft because he gave a night's lodging in his room on the premises to the fugitive on Thursday night when the crime was committed. The safe downstairs was cole: in and fom sobbed the next morning when the police were called. Its understood: that the Japanese Consular Police are hot on the trail of the suspect. awarded the Distinguished Flying

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