Netts Thugs $200
Three men, one of them ned with an automatic pistol, held up a Chinese pedestrian at 1.10 p.m. terday and robbed him of $200 which he was carrying on his person at the time. The daring robbery was perpetrated on Peking Road, near Kiangse Road, where a number of Chinese banks have their offices and it was presumed that -the victim had just been to collect a cheque at one of the banks.
An alarm was raised immediately the desperadoes had departed and police parties from Central station took up investigations. The robbers spoke the Kompo dialect and shots were fired. lus. Arms Embargo
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