A Chinese pedestrian with more courage than discretion defied an armed robber in Broadway East, near Hwakee Road, at 7.30 p.m. yesterday ard lived to tell the tale. Upon being held at pistol point by the armed robber, the pedestrian, instead of forking over whatever valuables he possessed, calmly knocked the gun out of the bandit's hand and, with the help of some passers-by, arrested him.
The robber was detained in a house near the scene of the did-up while station were Radio Circuit to Japan To Be Doubled Doubling its existing radio-telegraph communication facilities between here and Japan, the Central China Telecommunications Company will inaugurate a direc! Shanghai-Tokyo service today, the "Tairiku Shimpo" reported yesterday.
Hitherto, Shanghai messages from or to Japan were handled through the Osaka Radio Transmitting Station of the Japanese Ministry of Communica-The establishment of a direct Shanghai-Tokyo radio service is expected to reduce congestion on the C.C/T.C.'s Japan-Shanghai circuit.
He added that a vast majority of Irish citizens did not like the methods of the Irish Republican Army. "We have a fine Government. We have democi longer need for a Irish Republican Army is retarding rather than furthering our ends."—Reuter.
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