At the same time Japanese officials succeeded in detaching an influential member of the gang and winning him over to the Japanese, side, the statement revealed.
With a ban imposed on newspaper accounts of their actions, the Japanese poice made a number of arrests in the International Settlement and French Concession since July 12, with the aid of the S.M.P. and the French municipal police, With the 20 members of the corps were seized an assortment of secret documents, weapons which they had used in killing pro-Japanese Chinese, 30 or more rifes, more than 3,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, several bombs, daggers, signal guns, and other evidence of their activities, according to the police statement.
Japanese consular police are continuing their searches for other lairs where the remaining members of the gang are believed to have fled. Grilling of the men in custody was being continued to obtain further information of the organization's operations.
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