Chinese Territory; Joint Police Formation Awaited ways pay and this was clearly demonstrated last evening when a young Chinese woman paid with her life for sing to part with her finger when confronted by three desperadoes:
The crime took place shortly after nine o'clock in the evening at the corner of Connaught and Yenping Roads. The victim was walking home when she was stopped by three men. One of them, med with a pistol, demanded her rings, but she attempted to resist amd the armed man, angered by her refusal to part with her valuables, pulled the trigger and shot the unfortunate woman through the head The women's cries ior help, and later the shot, attra the attention of a C.P.C. on duty near th: scene of the hold-up. The law keeper rushed to the place, but the bandits an into Yenping Road and di: ed in the Chinese ferriter to pursue them there, the C.P.C. returned to the scene, called out an emergency ambulance and reported the io Gordon Road police station.
Taken to the St. Luke's No, 2 pital in Brenan Road. the woman succumbed to her wound before reaching it The difficulties met by the International Settlement police in combatting crime plained by a police official who stated that as long as there is no agreement On the extraterritorial roads, mam: crimes will go unsolved since {he Shanghai Municipal Police are barred from entering the territory. In the recent weeks, many robberies, holdups and other crimes have been committed in this area, but in each in French Warships Pass Gibraltar Westbound Gibraltar. Sept. 13.
The British naval authorities confirm the news that three French cruisers and three French destroyers passed Gibraltar on September 1! sailing from east to west.
Their destination is not known, it is added.—Reuter.
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