Shanghai, Oct. 10, daring hold-up was' staged in Gordon Road yesterday when four armed Chinese stopped a Union Brewery motor car and stole $9,581.09 cash and two crossed cheques amounting to $217.04 at 1135 The car was proceeding 10. the brewery plant and had reached Mapai Road when its way was closed by the four men, all. believed to be armed. with Mauser" pistols, who ordered the chauffeur and aeclork out fof the vehicle and drove off ina westerly direction, The car was later found abandoned near the Settle ment boundary in Robison. Road, The crime way reported to Pootoo Road police station where detectives started investigating. but the chou our and clerk could give little formation as to the description of the criminals, apart from the fact that they carried Mauser pistols and spoke Shanghai dialects Faced with the fre farms, they did not raise an alarm and the robbers drove away unhampered, "the money. was believed to. have been intended for the workers of the plant who were to be paid before the Double-Tenth Festival, Another payroll robbery took place on Tueseay afternoon when four men, three of them. armed with pistols, entered the office of the Columbia Riding Academy at 470 Great Western Road and intimidated the occupants. The robbers left alter taking $2,000 in notes which were to have been paid out to the employees of the concern,
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