Later in the day, at 1240 pin. five men, armed with three pistols, entered 27 Yih Wo Li off Hwakee Road and! intimidated the' occupants, leaving after they had taken a quantity. Valuables, watches" and-clothing, These men were also reported to have spoken Kompo dialect, The biggest armed robbery of the day was committed at 2 pin. when ye Shanghai Chinese broke into house 5 Lane 42 Tunsin Road. The house, residence of a Mr. Li, was the scone of intimidation as two of the Members of the gang whipped their pistols out and covered the occupants The robbers left after taking. $20,000 valuables, clothing and cash.
Kompo robbers were on the war path yesterday and another armed robbery was reported to have been committed by them when a gang of five, three of them armed, broke into 8 Chinese tailor shop at 203 Hoopeh Road where they frightened the inmates into giving them two rolls of loth and. $750 in cath. No arrests were made by the Police, who wore notified long after the criminals had escaped.
For once, however, Kompo robberr were unlucky and this happened. at 330 am. when five of them entered 4 chuen Zen Li off Burkill Road and attempted {0 intimidate the occupants, Notwithstanding the fact that the bandits produced two pistols, fan alarm was raised by one of the Seeupants, and the miscreants took to their heels without taking 2 thing vse Child Di in nton Road Fire Shanghai, Nov. 5.
Two fires were reported in the international " Settlement yesterday morning, the first causing the death of a Chinese boy. and injuring three shop assistants, who suffered severe burns. The child's body was found among the debris after the blaze had been extinguished.
The Arst fire was reported to the Central sation at 633" am, wher three Chinese "shops, Road went up in flames. The fire men answered the call immediately fud the flames were controfied in 21 minutes. Nevertheless, It took almost two hours more to put the ames completely out, Assistant Station OMecr F._B. 'Scammell was in charge of the four engines that answered the call When the firemen were finally able fo enter the premises, they found three shop assistants badly burned, while further inside the body of a Chinese boy' was discovered. All were taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital where the boy was pro= nounced {o have died of suffocation and heat Material damage to the houses was also done. the first floor of 421 and 425 being badly burned. The top Moor of houses 428, "where the fire originated, was gulfed by the "The second Are was reported to have started at Lane 482, House 4
Jessfield Road, near the corner of Kinnear Road, where a Chinese occupied by printing plant Am. Bubbling were called out, the blaze being controlled with Seventeen minutes of The first floor of the louse and a wooden shed were badly.
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