After giving Shanghai a rest during the past month, labour trouble made its reappearance yesterday morning when more than six hund-
Two highwaymen were arrested, one pistol seized. and $5,000 recovered when a Chinese coolie raised an alarm following a hold-up in Peking Road shortly after nine ye lock yesterday morning. Later, another pistol was found in the Children's Park at the corner of Soochow Road and the Bund.
The crime took place at 9.20 am. when the Chinese coolie, sent by a native bank with $5,000 to be delivered to a firm at.39 Peking Road, was accosted by three men, who relieved him of the money and made a dash along the Bund towards the Garden Bridge.
The victim followed the criminals up to the Garden Bridge where he informed the Police. Two C.P.C's immediately went after the men and managed to arrest two of them, while the third made his At the police station, the reported that he saw the brandish two pistols. Acting on information receiver the Police went to the Children's Park in Soochow Road and found another firearm, hidden in the bushes.
Detectives believed that the crime had been perpetrated by inexperienced men, since the money war found on the person of one of the arrested men, AS a rule, it was learned, robbers divide the loot among themselves before making their escape.
An interesting detail of the kold-up was the fact that the trio was attempting to cross the Garden Bridge at the time they were apprehended by the C.P.C's.
Detectives of Central Station were busy with another case yesterday when the cashier of the Taylor Garage kiosk at the corner of Hankow and Kiangse Roads reported to the station that an armed robbery red P.W.D. coolies went on strike had been committed at the kiosk Fund, Shanghai, my grateful following dissatisfaction over recent at 433 am. thanks-for their generous gift dismissals of some of their co-work-Investigations revealed that the my Air Raid. Distress Fund." crime had been perpetrated by four ers.
To date, the Central British The strike began at 6.15 a.m. and men, two of them reported to have 'War Fund has remitted £6,315 for some time looked as if it would been armed, who approached the to the Lord Mayor's Fund for develop into serious trouble as kiosk, taking the cashier completely hen wen tHe new with: His' colleagues. the relief' df Air Raid victims. cadiies' threatened to attack the unawares. While one of the armed Markham Road depot. A police party men covered the cashier with a from Gordon Road, as well as the pistol, the others entered the kiosk by the side door and stole $236 in senerai Japanese Expansion Reserve Unit, had been called out to prevent violence. Nevertheless, the cash. The quartette then disappear-windshield of a truck atid a part of ed without leaving a trace or clue the fence around the depot were except for the fact that they spoke damaged by the rioters.
Shanghai dialect.
Conference between the authorities Yet another robber was arrested.
Overseas Merchants Invest and the strikers was begun immedi-in West Hongkew district, after an Undecupied Ardas tély atid' resulted in the settlement alarm had been raised by the victim whose home at 25/60 Santai Road 'The much heralded' southward: ex-of the strike, with the workers re-was raided by four bandits at 7.30 a.m. pension of the Japanese militarists is turning to their work shortly after yesterday. One of the bandits was helping China in developing her vast noon. No details of the settlement armed with a pistol, but when the interior in the south-west and north-were known yesterday, and it was alarm was raised, the robbers took west because rich overseas Chinese, stated that they would be worked to their heels without stealing any-not wishing to see their wealth en-out after the coolies had resumed dangered by the Japanese move, are work. thing. The alarm was heard by thus encouraged to invest their police and resulted in the arrest of an unarmed member of the gang. money, in Chungking-controlled areas.
This information is contained in Prisoner Dies After The rest made their getaway. reports published' by the "Si. Wan Pao", whith hints also that itis -one
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