The Archive · 1938

Terrorists Caught

"Chinese Arraigned Before Eleven Known Members of Armed Bands: Captured District Court; Police Ask Adjournment Jerusalem, Dec. 10. Another Arab "court" was sur-

What would appear to be. a terroust gang was rounded up on Friday night as 10 men and five women in whose! possession two. hand. grenades were found were brought up before the First Special District Court yesterday on a writ of detention! by the Yulin Road Police. Owing to lack of time the police, however, could only charge them with offences against public order, preferring to. make more investigations about their activities.

The criminal suspects were arrested lat 296 Sze Wong Alley, off Tatung Road, by a raiding pany headed by Detective-Inspector White. The raid was carried out following the receipt of information from a Chinese detective attached to the Yulin Road Police Station that the accused were meeting to discuss a terrorist plan. prised by British troops near an Arab village north of Jerusalem yesterday.

The "president" and five members of the "court" were arrested, and many documents were s d.

The "court" was discovered by de-lochments of the West Yorkshire Regiment, the Second Battálion, the Black Watch, and the Eleventh Hussars.

Near Haifa, eleven known members of armed bands were captured when {he village was raided by men of the Second Battclion, the West Kent: Regiment.—Reuter.

Preparations are being made by the new Greater Shanghai Municipal Government for restoring the forme Nantao District Court for the purpose of dealing with criminal and civil cases in Chinese territory in Shanghai. A new chief judge has been appointed and the numerous criminals in Chinese territory who have created a reign of terror in Pootung and other Chinese areas and who have gone unpunished may soon be brought to book.

Although the new court for Shanghai Mr. Tu Fu, the new chief judge was recently appointed by the Minister of Justice of the "Reformed Government" at Nanking direct and he has chosen the former site of a primary school in Pong Lai Road, Nantao, for his court. day he was reported to have moved into the school building in order 10 r there. Renovation work is g and the court is scheduled to r open

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