Shanghai, Jan. 26.
Members of the French Poliea called in time, succeeded in arresting. four Chinese would-be robbers at house im the French Concession yea terday afternoon. Later in the da; a 6fth man was captured.
At 140 pin. four Chinese, including one man who caried a pistol, entered a Chinese residence at 17 Cité Sze Ming Li, Passage 425 Avenue Joffre, and attempted to rob the household. 'A. woman. servant managed to slip four of the house and inform a watch man in the lane. 'The watchman in tum informed' Poste Joffre of the French Police, When the police arrived the gang was still on the premises, and all four members were arrested on the spot, The armed member of the band was taken by surprise and had chance to Use his pistol, which was seized by the Police.
'AL the police station the prisoners Jeonfessed "that they had been instigated to commit the robbery by a relative of the complainant, a certain Long Ming-tch, who was staying at 'a hotel in Cité Pao Vu, Rue Hué. This man was subsequently arrested and he is said to have admitted that he engineered the robbery in order to pay his debts.
'Six men, (we of whom carried pistols, robbed a Chinese resident in Lane "37, Route Prentice, taking money and jewellery to the total value' of about $275.
Yesterday evening, four robbers entered 671 Changping Road and stole some money and jewellery, the {otal value of their loot being about $60, These men escaped, and no shots were fred.
Telephone Receiver Stolen Fah Hwa Bandits Break Jail Shanghai, Jan. 27 Four members of the' desperate West Fah Hwa Village gang, who had been arrested with several others by the Setllement Police, were at large yesterday after their' escape from a "Ta Tao" police station.
The Settlement Police at Bubbling Well Station were informed by the Japanese military police that the four dangerous bandits had broken out of the detention cell at "Ta Tao" police headquarters, 92 Jessfield Road, on the morning of Jan. 25. Details of how they managed to escape, however, were lacking. The station whenes they, fled adjoins the western headquarters of the Japanese military Police, 94 Jessfield Road, where also Chinese prisoners are being held, The four are members of the gang which was "rounded up" as a result of a frontal attack on its hiding place, a creekside hut some 200 yards west of Columbia Road, by the Police Reserve Unit and a large squad of Headquarters detectives on January Many shots were fired by both sides before the gangsters surrender fed. dropping their guns into the muddy creek.
Taken to Jessfield Road The prisoners were retained in the custody of the Japanese military. police and lodged by them in Jessfield Road. The following afternoon the bandits were handed over to the 'Settlement Police for questioning, it being stipulated by the Japanese that they' must be returned to them in hours. The questioning revealed that the gang was implicated series of bold crimes of recent date in the western "outside roads" area. One of these outrages was an attack bya large number of the bandits upon. two Chinese constables of the Settlement Police in Brenan Rood a few weeks back. Both policemen were robbed of their service pistols Jat the time, but the weapons' were Tater recovered by the SEEP.
The "clean-up" of the Fah Hwa Village gang led to the subsequent arrest of other desperadoes connected with the band, in the the Great Western Road and Jessfield Village areas.
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