On suspicion that they robbed two constables and one watchman of their three service pistols in a few hours' time, two men, arrested on Tuesday night by the Gordon Road police, were arraigned before Judge Liu in the First Special District Court yesterday on a writ of detention pend ing further investigations. At the request of the police the hearing was postponed for a week.
The police prosecutor told the court that the arrested men had confessed to an armed robbery committed on May 9 in a rice shop at 257 Changping Road. He also revealed that one of the stolen pistols was recovered from them at the time of their arrest in a restaurant. The men were also alleged to have told the police that altogether five men participated in the various crimes they had committed.
The first pistol robbery was committed shortly after 9 p.m. on May 9 when a watchman on duty in front of a Chinese dyeing factory was robbed of his weapon in Penang Road. A few hours later two constables attached to the Gordon Road Police Station were robbed of their service pistols in darkness in Yengping Road.
According to Chi sources, copies of the order have been sent to various shipping firms which are required to petition the bureau to measure and inspect their boats in order to obtain registration. Upon the expiration of the registration period and if there is no strong reason, the Bureau will petition the Ministry of Communications to deprive the navigation right and to cancel ownership of unregistered boats.
The order further says that transference of ownership of boats since the outbreak of hostilities wil not be recognized by the new regime unless such transferences have been officially accepted by the Ministry of Communications through the petitions sent by the Shanghai bureau.
A Chinese news agency report quotes shipping circles as saying that almost all Chinese boats have been transferred to foreign ownership and that they have been registered with the ious foreign consulates in Shanghai; Some of the boats have been registered with the governments of foreign owners and the registrations have been referred to the Tokyo government. The owners therefore do not feel obligated to have their boats registered with the new bureau, A few Chinese owners would pre-for to sacrifice their business to registration with the new bureau, it is stated Norway Increases Funds For Defence Oslo, May 17.
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