'A gang of five Chinese, displaying three pistols, robbed a Chinese house, No. 43 Ss Yung Li, off Sinza Road, Jat 1030 o'clock yesterday "morning. Jand escaped with $190. No shots the British-owned "and registered Sung Sing No. 7 Cotton Mill, 468 'Yangtszepoo Road, it was learned by the "North-China' Daily News" yesterday.
The mill is owned by the Hongkorg Shanghai Banking Corporation, land whereas the cotton stock is not believed to be British owned, the machinery is definitely held to be British "property. "Some of this machinery has now been "removed" by the Japanese, and it is understood that it has been transferred to the Japanese-owned Kung Dah No, 2 Mill, lose by. The Sung Sing No. 7 became British, through a mortgage transaction, long before the 1937 hostilities.
According to authoritative sources of information, the British-owned machinery was removed from. the British mill premises on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last! week. Tt consisted mainly of valuable electric motors. As far as could bbe learned, this property was yesterday still within the walls of the Japanese Kung Dah No. 2 Mill. It Fepresents a part of the mill equipment.
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