Two robberies by armed men, netting the perpetrators a total of $550 in various loot, were being investigated by the French Police yesterday. The first crime was committed before daylight yesterday at a Chinese dwelling-house, 1 Kwan Yue Faung, off Route Conty. The occupants of the house were threatened with two pistols then enclosed in a room on the ground floor. The bandits, six in number, ransacked the rooms and fled with plunder worth about $250.
Another robbery was committed at an unnumbered house in Lane 142.
Route Remi, where two gunmen took loot valued at $300 and escaped. No shots were fired in the commission Tue annual conference of the China Economic Institute, says a report to the "Ta Wan Pao," was held in Chungking on December 4, with a Jarge attendance of Chinese bankers and economic experts. Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance and concurrently President of the Executive Yuan, rendered a detailed report to the meeting concerning China's currency situation and expressed opti-miss for China's foreign trade position, the report adds. of either crime.
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