With the arrest of 16 persons, 11 of whom are already in the custody of the First Special District Court where a preliminary hearing was recently held, the West Hongkew Police are expected to solve the mystery ssu rounding the $6200 armed robbery which was committed on December 24 of last year in the Tien Chizp Hotel, 58 North Honan Road Five of the men were arrested on Monday and it was learnt yesterday ihat one of them is no other than a waiter employed by the hotel itself suggesting that the crime might be zn inside job. The 11 other arrested persons were arrested in a Chekiang Road hotel last week after the police had obtained information that some robbers were meeting in the hotel in rrepáration for a hold-up. Three pistols, including an imitation one, were seized together with four rounds of ammunition.
The daring hotel robbery, it will be recalled, was staged by three gunmen who gained entrance on the pre-
The report that the 74-passenger plane would leave Alameda for Manila this week said that only ten members of the crew would be aboard. Mail will also be carried, but no passengers will be permitted on the maiden flight, which will probably be a final test for the huge plane.
Spare motors of the 1,500-horsepower type recently arrived in Manila from the United States. They were unloaded to the main engineering department of the Pan American Airways' Philippine headquarters at Cavite.
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