Up 27 Suspeets Shanghai, Apr. 7.
No. less than 27 persons were arrested by -the French police on Saturday night and Sunday.mornirg, when raids were conducted on the Edward Hotel at 261/10 Rue Welkwel by detectives from the Crime Branch 3 headquarters.
The first visit to the hotel was made at 830 p.m. on Saturday and Fesulted in the arrest of eight men. Token to headquarters for question ing, the men revealed that more! would be at the hotel later on. Detec: tives returned there and apprehended nine more persons.
A third raid on the hotel was made at 4 am. yesterday and eight more men. were taken into custody. The last two. bringing the. total to '27, were detained at the same hotel an hour or so later. was believed that these men belonged to a political organization and might have been responsible for the assassinations in the French Con~ cession. Chines? circles thought that the organization was responsible for the assassination of Chow Po-dah and Vu Ching-ting on Friday evening. They were both shot in an alleyway off Rue clu Consular.
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