Police Headquarters yesterday sifted the results of their elaborate drive against the Chinese gangster element of Shanghai, conducted the previous two days, at the same time maintaining watches on various houses known to have been frequented by terrorists and other armed criminals.
Up to Tuesday night, nearly ninety men (and women had been arrested, and they were all being kept in custody.yesterday while fingerprint and registry officials examined their possible police records. It is known already that a fair proportion of them have tangled with the law in the past, An interesting sidelight on the war waged iby the Municipal Police on Shanghai's particular criminal gentry is furnished by the October report of the force, which was issued yesterday. While, according to the report, the Reserve Unit (riot personnel) turned out only once to the scene of an armed robbery, the various stations conducted 787 search parties in the month along streets and alleyways, and made 249 inspections of hotels and lodging. houses, mainly in the Louza district. There were 58;"standing parties" and 21 cordon searches, while the Reserve Unit responded to 52 so-called tip-and-run calls, Furthermore there was one(nilitary patrol and 46 S.V.C. patrols. Armoured patrols were nil.
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