Yesterday's crime outbreak started at S47 am. with the commandeering Spanish Mission Entertained chief of the Special Service Section of the Japanese Army in on August 5 in Mission to Jepan, headed by Lt.-General Alberto Castro Giroh guest of honour, Lt.-Generat Castro, (second from the right) with the host on his right, seated in the first row. of a Ford hire car by suspected gangsters. Six of them got into the machine and ordered the chauffeur to drive them to Keswick Road near Amherst Avenue where he was foreed {o alight and was bound up and detained in an alleyway near by while his passengers drove off in the ear. 'At about 610 a.m, they came back and returned the' machine to the chauffeur, afler which they made off The second case of ear command deering happened at about 725 a.m. when a Johnson hire ear was seized by three Chinese, one of whom was armed and who ordered the driver to Railway Rond near Jessfield, Road station where they alighted.
chauffeur was detained in neighbouring straw hut and the others drove off to return some time fater with the car, which they abandoned, Foreign clothes to the value of] $500 were stolen by four armed robbers yesterday morning from a Chinese "dry cleaning establishment. at 899 Connaught Road. The clothes were taken from the window of the shop and afler cowing the occupants of the shop into submission, the robbers took to their heels.
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