Strikes Result in Loss of 12,958 Working Days; Refugee Situation Somewhat Better Shanghai, Feb. 2 total of 3,138 cases of crime dealt with by the Shanghai Mu ipal Police the month of January, shows an inevease of 247 as compared (o the figures for December 1939, and an increase of 992 over the figure for the corresponding period last year, according to the Commissioner's monthly report for January which was published yesterday.
Arrests for crime committed dur~ ing the month show an increase, 2,635 persons having been apprehended in January as against 2,203 in December and 2,523 in November.
In addition 218 persons were taken into custody for crimes committed in previous months, whilst 36 persons were arrested on behalf of other authorities. eluded in the arrests effected January for offences committed wit inthe jurisdiction of the Shang Municipal" Police are 144 for complicity: in armed. crime, In all 31 fire~ Arms. together with a quantity of ammunition were seized.
Four cases of murder were recorded, one less than in December 1930 three more than the figure for the corresponding period of the prev fous year, 'A total of 17 cases of attempted ander were reported, an increase of two over the Mure for December an Increase of ten as compared ith the corresponding period of Inst year, No tess than four cases of farmed kidnapping occurred, one more than the figure for the' previous month, 'There were ten cases of simple abduction, an increase of four over December' and equalling the figure for the corresponding period of ast 188 reports of armed robbery, 51 more than December and'an increase of 106 ever the figure for the corresponding period of the previous year. The humber of cases for "B" Division in this respect #3 still abnormally high due to the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing ju areas abutting the Municipal Road in the Western Di niet. There were 73 other robberies fan Increase of 39 over the Mgure for December, The number of housebreakings recorded was 109, as com= pared with 91 in December.
Tu all 61 burglaries were reported, Tnevease of nine as compared with gute for December, There were 1,000 cases of simple theft, an Increase of 144 as compared with the previous month.
A" Division recorded 97 cases of shoplifting, a decrease of four compared with the previous month arrests were made, There were 149 eases of pocket-picking, an in-cease of 23 as compared with the previous month—O1 arrests were ade of the four motor ears report= c_stolen, three were recovered. Of the 258 bicycles stolen, 56 were recovered and 87 arrests "were made connection with these thefts. There wore 104 eases of snatching, a decrease of 28 as compared with the Mixuire for December, 158 arrests be-nat made, Opium Offences UP
There was an increase of 24 in the number of opium offences. The Headquarters Narcotic Section car~ ried out fifteen raids and arrested 67 persons, Police Station Slaffs dealt Wwith 60 narcotic cases and arrested 234 persons, In all 230025. opium, 201f 078, of heroin, 73. pipes nel_three hypodermic syringes were seized The fetlowing 111 reports of crime ment limits, in houses on or abutting on Council ronds:—-Attempted mu er, 2; armed highway robbery, 1 Unarmed highway robbery, 3: bur lary, Mz snatching, 2; extortion, assault, 6; armed "robbery, 43 unfarmed' robbery, 1; house breaking 10; laveerly, 88 embezzlement, tumidation, 1.
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