Members of a police raiding party aod ree abo ory afte 640 Fobbors who "were being. followed, nm, yesterday, although none of the
were injured, 'One man vas arrest od however. aes men three' of them armed with The affray occured when seven
Distols, entered a Chinese dwelling at Bat Gho ban. Koh village, off Hal The inmates, ransacked the house. The Innster of the house swas uble to make ood'his escape through ihe rear door {ina succeeded in teneting the atte tion of police raiding party. which {vas on patrol nearby.
One of the robbers who had been foft"on guards duty. "at the. front ntranee, saw the. police, arrive and Alecamped, with two of his accom pilees. When these mon refused 10 halt atter having been ordered to do 80. bythe police, the atler opened ie, but due to the darkness of the IMleyway. none" of their shots took titeers Gne of the three "men who tempted to run away was arrested whilst those in the house decamped ver the root and the remaining two Inthe alleyway Were lost in the darkness.
"The arrested man will face the First Spetial Distlet Court. this morning, MMhist" detectives of Gordon. Toad Motion are sill investigating the eas Two Women Injured In New Hut Fire Shanghai, Jan. 30.
Two women were burned and had to be taken to hospital yesterday afternoon when another large fire destroyed! a straw-hut colony in the Western area, "The two victims were taken in a Fire Brigade ambulance St, Bulzabeth's Hospital.
The Are occurred at a straw-hut settlement. near the intersection of Penang and Tonquin Roads. Many huts" were destroyed and others again were damaged.
Setilement firemen sped to secre and fought the flames for nearly three hours—between 1218 noon and 308 pin.
arly on Bfonday morning some 120 huts were destroyed in another disastrous" "hutment™ fire in the western "district, near St. John's University.
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