'Shanghai, Nov, 29, Effrem Lockianchenko was sentenced to three years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special District Court on a charge of forgery while his accomplice, also a young, Russian, drew six months for helping in disposing of forged passports. Five forged Portuguese, one Hun: arian, one Egyptian, and two Polish passports were ordered returned. to their respective authorities.
The first accused was arrested last month following the receipt of a tip from the Hongkong Police "who arrested. four gypsies for being Possession of forged Portuguese and Polish passports. "His secomplice was arrested later. The former's home Range Road was raided by' the police resulting in the seizure of other forged documents and chemjeals. It was revealed in court that the first accused had forged the documents and sold them to the four travelling in the col Youthful Robber Sentenced Shanghai, Nov. 30.
Charged with armed. robbery in which he connived with a man who is still at large in relieving an apprentice of a bank roll amounting to $3977 near the Bank of East Asia Duilding on Szechuen Road, near Kiukiang Road, on November 21, Chen Chun-ho, a youth aged only 2%, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special Distric' Court, The robbery, it will be recalled, took place shortly after 2 pin.
fall view of many pedestrians. When the victim. an" employee of the Kung Sheng Dyeing and Weaving Hong in Peiping Road, raised alarm the men fled towards Kiukiang Road. While the other robber disappeared into the crowd, Chen edged into 69 Kiukianse Road which boutes the Sumitomo Bank.
'A. raiding party soon arrived and threw a cordon around the Japanese bank building. "When Chen was eaving the building after throwing away his pistol he was caught, The flisearded "gun was tater recovered from a waste paper basket, 'Wong Li-zai and Kuo 'Tze-hsiong wore sentenced to seven years and three and a half years' "imprison ment respectively yesterday by the same court for staging a holdup in Museum Road on November. 14, The latter was the private rickshaw coolie employed by the victim, a bank manager in Hongkew, who was relieved of a brief case containing, Yen 8000, Wong was caught red-handed by the police and a pistol was wrenched from him. He Tater implicated the rickshaw puller" as an accomplice who eave Information about the movement of his master to him.
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