Three Japanese said to be students at Tung Wen College were arrested in the French Concession at daybreak yesterday after a chase which started in the International Settlement. The three were handed over io the Settlement Police and finally io the Japanese Consular Police, charged with armed highway robbery.
The prisoners are said to have met a fourth Japanese, a chauffeur attached to the Japanese Gendarmerie, in a Chinese house near Avenue Foch and Chungking Road at 4 a.m. They are alleged to have evicted him from the house and followed him along Avenue Foch. There, it is reported, they robbed him in an alleyway of YA and some Chinese currency the point of a revolver. No shots were fired.
Later, the chauffeur reported the crime to a Chinese policeman in Avenue Edward VIL The constable gave chase and pursued the suspects into Route Luzon, in the French CConeession. The three men were finally halted with the assistance of the French Police, disarmed and held for the Settlement authorities. They were charged with armed highway robbery and handed over to the Japanese Consular authorities for trial,
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