Shanghai. Aug. 29.
Five Chinese workers of Japa cotton mills in Yanglszepoo recently took to robbers as a spare time jo because they could not make bot ends meet. having gambled much of their wages. in the lands." They have just been teneed_on robbery' charges First Special District Court, Three of them drew two years and six months each, while the other Feceived prison terms of one and six months each. AMI the ser Tenees, however. have been sus pended for four' years. One. imi tion pistol has been confiscated the. court "The sentenced men were respon sible for a series of highway robberies committed in Penang. Connaught, Kiaochow. and Singapore Roads, Besides stealing cash they also indulged in "pig. skinning." robbing victims of their clothes which they pawned to obtain cash, The crimes were committed between July 3 and August 9, but Gordon Road police investigations resulted in the robbers being rounded up.
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