Five men, one armed with a pistol, managed to intimidate the 21 o. cupants of a Chinese exchange shop at 287 Boone Road, at 6.50 am. yesterday, subsequently decamping with $7,637 worth of U. S. dollars, pounds sterling and Chinese currency.
Detectives from Hongkew station were only advised some considerable time after the robbers had disappeared with their loot and investigations into the case are now being made.
The robbers had an easy task since the shop was still closed at the early morning hour, with the result that there was only one exit which they managed to guard in such a manner &s to prevent any of the occupants from leaving the building to inform the police that the robbery was in progress.
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