Slightly increased police patrols in the International Settlement seemed to have worked wonders yesterday—the sixteenth anniversary of the Nanking Road Incident of 1925—for not only were terrorists completely unseen and unheard, but evan armed robbers and kidnappers appeared to have mished from the area.
With all the banks and majority of firms closed because of the Dragon- Boat Festival, the streets bore a deserted appearance, but even this factor did not make the presence of extra police patrols conspicuous. To an inexperienced eye there might have been no extra patrols at all.
Yet they were there, and the fact that the criminal elements know thay precautionary measures, whether on full or decreased scale, are im ably carried out by the police on an-"niversaries. may be the reason for the complete absence of armed crime during the day. ench Concossion and Weste!, where the new police for, also had nothing to report.
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