Shanghai, May 27.
Nine Chinese are being detained by the Settlement Police on. suspicion lof being concerned in an armed rob-Jbery committed in the offes of the Wen Pao hardware export company 110 Szechuen Road.
'The nine men, remanded under a weir of detention by the First Special District (Court yesterday, were rested within ten Wours after the Jdaring hold-up, in which a Korean. merchant was' robbed of $8,000 [yen and $7,000 in local currency.
The Korean, named Ho Mal Soki, Jexpected to meet a hardware merch-out in his office on May 25. when lhe entered with a leather bag containing the money. Instead, he was bound and gagged by three men who also. bound and gagged a Chinese employee and a Chinese broker.
The Chinese employee, Yih Ming-kao, a 40-year old clerk, and Lee Zah-kyl, a broker, who witnessed the robbery, were subsequently question-led by the police and detained. Seven additional Chinese were arrested in aids conducted in the Settlement and the French Concession.
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