Owner of Cereal Shop Abducted Shanghai, July 28, Detectives of Gordon Road Station are looking for the. whereabouts. Mr. Wet Peterung, bisyear old pro-Drietor of a" cereal store, who was Kidnapped by five persons' in Gordon Road at about 615'am, yesterday.
Information of the aeapperance of stat'on_ by the. victims son, "No des nese was brought to the police
friand for ransom was made with the family up to. yererday "afternoon, the crime is, however, blleved to be devoid of any political significance. proprietor was ing in' his 'As far 9s could be ascertained, the Private rickshaw from his house, 17 11 Connaught Road, to his store, 1233- too Ferry Road, when he was held up by' Ave Chinese in Gordon Road.
Without showing any firearms, the gang asked he propriter to alight discuss some business. "he victim Szechuen Rd. Bridge Closed to Chinese Shanghai, July 31.
Chinese pedestrians and others are not being permitted to use Szechuen Road bridge, a Japanese naval spokesman said yesterday. Barred under this rule, he said, were Chinese chauffeurs not accompanied by their employers. Japanese and third party nationals were being permitted free passage, he declared, was. th taken to a lar motor car in black colour, parked at the side of the street, 'The car was driven southward along Gordon Road. One of the five men, who purposely stayed behind, then' took a. public rickshaw and or-Jdered the private rickshaw coolie to leave the scene with his vehicle, As the proprietor offered no resistance at the time of the abduction Jand no alarm was raised, the crime Idid not draw any public attention. Police working on the case failed to locate any eye-witness, The number plate carried by the motor car used in the crime was unknown, No threatening letter was reported to have been received by the family. Several days before the crime, _a fetter was understood to have been received by the victim who was Jasked to send his son or a representative to meet a certain person. The latter was not known. to the family, and the letter was therefore jin the logic of certain economic compulsions, and these reveal the coming. time to be not so sombre as it might appear from the day-to-day readings, Then, one may also safely reckon Jupon'the balance of power that exists jin nature, wherein no one individual or nation can have it all ils own way.
Tt is up to the businessman, just fas much today as in the last fifteen years, to take cognizance of these larger bearings and steer his affairs' accordingly.
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