Several Chinese passengers on a Shanghai bound bus of the Daichoku Bus Company, a Japanese firm, were robbed by a band of 15 armed bandits one kilometre east of Nanziang, midway between Shanghai and Kiating, about 11 o'clock on Friday morning, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yes terday evening.
The highwaymen hid along a creek bank until the bus approached and robbed the passengers of Y.500 cash, threatening them with pistols, the paper said After the robbery the gunmen stopped a truck coming from Shanghai and demanded cash from Mr.
Toyoichi Nonoyama, whom they threatened with pistols. Mr. Nonoyama did not have any money on his person. The bandits kidnapped him and his s unknown, the journal stated. gendarmerie unit is for the thugs and the missing Japanese, who is an employee of the Dai Nippon Boseki Kaisha (Dah Kong Cotton INW)
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