Eerlier in the evening, at 650 pin., a Chinese detective on patrol in Avenue Edward VII in Chengtu District, challenged three suspicious looking men as they were walking along the street. One of the trio whipped out a pistol but the detective was too fast for him and fired first, wounding the gunman. Another member of the three, who are believed to have been armed robbers, was arrested while the third made good his escape. The wounded man was taken to the Police Hospital for treatment. One pistol was seized by the police.
Between 7 and 7.20 a.m. yesterday, five men, four of them armed with pistols, forced their way into House 17, Lane 35, Hanbury Road and made off with an amount of property valued -|at $850. In another early morning robbery, three men, one armed, en" tered a silversmith's shop at 444-6 Pingliang Road and robbed the premises of thirteen gold finger rings valued at $768. At 7 pin. yesterday a band of fifteen men, two of them armed, trooped their way into House 7, Lane 685, Avenue Haig and looted the place of $36 in cash.
Washington, Mar.—House Foreign Affairs Committee today appointed a sub-committee to study the possibility of purchasing the Cocos and Gala-pages Islands in the Panama Canal's vicinity—United Press, Tokyo, Mar. 7.—Ceremonies were held this morning to mark the opening of a new school house for the primary course of the Peers' School on the site of the old building at Nakamachi, Yotsuya, here.—Domei.
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