Shanghai, Mar. 25.
Kidnappers were again, busy. the Seitlement yesterday when a gang abducted a. five-year-old boy from 12 Vu Ya Ching Road at 840 am, this being followed with an avempt to kidnap Mr, Pew Shui chia, manager of the Ssu Shih Flour SUI from outside 122° North Che-Kiang Road at 9.45 a.m. When their fatlempt failed, the "gangsters. shot thole victim in the thigh and' dis-
The rst crime occurred when five men, speaking Shanghai dialect possessing three pistols, entered Foam 16 at 12 Vu Ya Ching Road and told the occupants, six in num= her, that they were from.a "eertain® organization, sent to search promises, in the course of their search, the miscreants stole $2,500 in cash' and Valuables, these being three old ping and bank. passbook for: $2,000, When the robbers left the place, it, was. discovered that they had taken the child with them, Neither the name of the child or that of his parents could be learned yes terday, but the detectives, investigat—ing the ease, revealed that he was a Junk master, sailing between Shanghai and Soochow.
Victim Wounded in Thigh The second case, reported to the! West Hongkew stition, occurred at! 945 am, when two mien, one of them armed with a matiser, held up Mr, Pei just og he was alighting at 122" North Chekiang ead " from. his ear. When the would-be victim resisted, the armed man fired a shot wounding him in the thigh, The criminals then disappeared, while the wounded man was taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital, where his condition was not said to be very. serious,
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