A little later, the driver of the taxi came to the station lo report that he had been turned out of his car Keswick Road when two men, one holding @ small' black pistol, forced him to walk towards a straw-hut village off the Municipal road. and detained nm there for what he guessed to be between 49 and 50 min tutes, Before letting him go the men yave him $16 and told him to keep aylet about what had happened.
The car used in the crime was ordered at 443 p.m. when four men boarded it and told the driver to drive to Keswick Road. There, one of them took the driver's cap and while his two captors escorted him the village, two others boarded the ear and made off Subsequent enquiries revealed that at about 5.10 pam. several Chinese alighted from a. Sliver taxi with a small boy who was erying on Keswick Road near Tunsin Road. They walked towards a straw-hut village situated some 50 yards off the road and since then "nothing has been" heard "of them, It was not believed last night that the boy's. father had received any threatening letter in the past although detectives enquiring Into. the case were not overlooking this possibility. Up to the time of going to press the boy had not returned to his home and nothing had been heard of him.
Pistol Foun Where the C.P.C,* alighted and what he did afterwards is not yet known, although his service pistol together with the spare magazine and six rounds of anumunition were later ound in on ash can standing inside fan alleyway off Tendony Road, Earlier in the proceedings, when the police had hardly arrived' at the xeene of the shooting and when it Was not known to where the con stable had escaped, a call was. put through to the Reserve Unit, it being believed at the time that the con stable may have decided to hide in one of merous alleyways, extensive search revealed nothing later that the constable hi district im= mediately 'The constable, who is now being sought, is Ching Yung-lien, He Joined' the S.M.P. in April 1998 and ince then has always performed his duty to the satisfaction of his officers, one cession he was even com= for some excellent work and Cotton Hong Manager Kidnapped Shanghai, May 10.
Forcing a Ford hire car to a halt by placing their streamlined sedan front of the lane from which the taxi was emerging on Vu Yuen Rood at about 9.10 am. yesterday, three men wearing Sun Ya-Tsen style uniforms and armed with Mauser military. pistols whisked away Mr. Sung Ling-sung, 49-year old manager of a cotton hong with offices at room 103, Hamilton House, Mr. Sung usually leaves his home at House "65, Lane 749, Vu Yuen Road, well before 9 a.m,' but yesterhhis car broke down so. that he was delayed until a ire ear had arrived.
He boarded the vehicle and the driver to proceed House. The taxi had almost arrived on the main road when modern black sedan placed itself at the entrance of the lane in such mer os to prevent the taxi from proceeding. Three armed men riped out, ascertained that Mr. city-wide was in the car and thereupon ordered him to join them in theirs sped off in a westerly diree-
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