Twenty-nine Kidnapping, Merchants Unable to Buy Will Fight if Necessary Robber Suspects Appear Cocoons Owing to War Courageous Speech by Mr. van Kleffens Repeating In District Court In Chekiang Province Determination to Resist Aggression Twenty nine suspected robbers and kidnappers were brought before the First Special District Court yesterday by Central and other Settlement police officers in connection with many armed robbery, attempted kidnapping and kidnapping cases during the past few weeks, In one case, 25 men were alleged to have been involved in both armed robbery and kidnapping committed on March 24 in the home of Mrs. Wang Hung-sze, a seafaring woman living at 12 Vu' Ya Ching Road who was robbed of several gold rings in addition to $2,000 and whose son Wang Cheng-kiang, five years old, was kidnapped by the same gang, All accused were remanded in custody pending further investigations, Although the Vu Ya Ching Road crimes were committed in March, the arrests were made last month after the robbers had written a ransom note to Mrs. Wang- demanding $200,000 for the release of her son, Who was rescued. The arrests were made at- various places and three pistols and many rounds of ammunition were seized from the gang. The two other cases were referred to the court by the Central police in connection with several crimes, Four men in whose possession two pistols were alleged to have peen found were alleged to have attempted to kidnap Huang Shui-tsu on April 4 in Yunnan Road. The same accused were said to have also beens responsible for some armed robberies including the one committed in. Canton Road in February, In that case [ad Tze-ming was robbed of Four other men arrested by the Central police in the Settlement, Concession and Nantao faced the court and were charged on four counts of kidnapping and robbery. They were alleged to have committed an armed robbery on February 3 in a shipping firm at 53 Foochow Road which was victimized to the extent of more than $40,000. Onf April 13, it was further alleged, they victimized Wang Hong-yuen of 446 Haiphong Road in an armed robbery and later kidnapped Wang. On the same day they attempted to rob a restaurant in Bubbling Well Road, it was said,
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