Two raids were made ast night the Louza police in two big hotels in their district in cooperation with the Reserve Unit and some amicers from other stations numbering in all about 150. men. Two arrests. wore made in-the Central Hotel, Canton Road, which was first raided, The men arrested were alleged to have Violated anti-nareotle regulations, 'A. representative of the, "North-China Daily News" who was present throughout the whole affair saw the Louza Police Station going out from their station in five trucks preceded by two riot vans and followed by several police vans.
Most of the elficers wore bullet proof jackets and were fully prepared for action, carrying guns in their hands, Importance was attached to the thoroughness with which the raids were carried out, for with Lightning speed and alertness on the part of all officers no criminal could be expected to escape from the strong cordon thrown around the popular Chinese hostelries.
Under the personal direction Chief Inspector A. 1H. Chamberlain and Inspector G. J. Bennett the ral ing party arrived at the Central Hotel at 9 pam. Most conspicuous in the party were the six sturdy women detectives who participated in the No Entry Allowed iter throwing a cordon around the hotel by members of the Reserve Unit, members of the raiding party inehiding the women searchers, dash= ed into the hotel and began their Search. Persons leaving the hotel were searched but no entry was allowed during the raid which lasted. about halt an hour.
After this raid, the raiding party i arrived at the Sheng Chow Hotel, which is located at the intersection of Chekiang and Foochow Roads. similar raid, was carried out inthe five-storey building but no arrests were made, The whole procedure was finished at about 10 pin.
Many criminals have been arrested the past in the two raided hotels, especially the first one where last yer the late Chief Chinese Detective Allached to the Settlement police, (the late Mr, Loh Lien-kwel),. lost his life, He was riddled with Bullets by assassins while he was leaving, the hotel, of which he was a shareholder. The assessing are still at large, Mrs, Gande's Driver Hit by Japanese Shanghai, Mar. 15.
Giving vent to their dissatisfaction at seeing their ear being overtaken by another, six Japanese civilians foreed motorcar driven by a chauffeur and which Mrs, W. M. Gande was the Sole passenger, to pull up on Broadway near Muirhead Road, shortly utter 1230 pin, yesterday, and forced the driver to leave his vehicle, whertupon they proceeded {0 maltreat him, inflicting slight head injuries, Mrs, Gande, who was returning to the ely from her house on Thorburn Road, tried" to Intervene, but apparently her pleadings with the six Sssailants were of no avail.
The incident, it was understood, occurred when Mrs, Gande's car over= took that occupied by the Japanese, because the latter was proceeding at a very low speed. Apparently i furiated over this,' the Japanese cupied vohicte overtook Mrs. Gande's tar and forced it to pull up, whereupon the chauffeur was pulled from his seat and given a severe beating.
The assailants, it was furthermore Jearned, said that they had to the chauffeur because he was driving wa reckless speed, Although, according to information wethered "yesterday evening, the matter was reported to the Shanghai Municipal Police, no statement was available up {9 alate hour fast night, Grenade Found on Parade Ground Shanghai, Mar. 16.
'An explosion which occurred the former Public Recreation Ground in Ta, Chi Road, Nantao, om March 4 killed four' Japanese soldiers and wounded several others, cording to people coming from tao quoted by. the Chinese evening papers here yesterday.
was said that a small company of Japanese soldiers was stationed at the scene of explosion, At about 9 a.m, on March 14, 10 Japanese soldiers were having morning exercises on the ground when they saw a grenade. Some of them rushed up to examine it but it exploded killing' four" of them outright and wounding several others.
It is believed that the missile had been put there by guerillas, in' thousands of Chinese countrypeople flocking tures were taken on the Bun the Christine Moller. while by' @ Japanese plat Chinese Refugees Flock Here Shanghai, Mar. 17.
More than one thousand people living in districts in North Kiangsu where the situation is tense because of the threatened military action ar= rived in Shanghai yesterday afternoon in several boats and before landing they were carefully searched by the Setilement police authorities guarding the gangway leading to the No. 12 Pontoon.
Interviewed, many new arrivals leaving the Christine Moller, a British steamer, admitted that they had come here because of the tense situation.
Most of them were seen carrying personal belongings including beading which indicated that they wished to stay here for some time. The boat also carried pigs, chickens and other goods to Shanghai from Kiangpeh, (meaning north of the Yangtze).
Kiangpeh is that part of Kiangsu where barbers and most of other servants are recruited and the arrival yesterday of this large number of Fefugees will mean a burden to the city especially the poorer class of Chinese on whom they wish to depend for some time.
Although previous Chinese reports stated that war clouds were gathering in river port districts in Kiangsu on the northern banke of the Yangtze as Chinese regulars and guerillas num-Dering about 90,000 strong were rush-strategic places to prepare for the threatened Japanese attack, the arrivals. yesterday told the reporter that Aghting had not yet started in earnest.
Fighting was said to have been in progress north of Taichow and also Shaopo. When they started their shanghai-bound journey there was no_ fighting but a few days before there was, A village north of Taichow was said to have been lost. They did Know the situation in other dist such a5 Jukao, Nantungchow, Kitung ele. where Chinese forces were previously reported to have been prepared for an attack.
The reports indicated that the Japanese threatened to attack these Gistricts because they wanted to cut off the supplies of Chinese forces operating there. They were also tated (0 be trying to close these dis-{ricts to shipping in order to favour 2 Japanese shipping firm alone.
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