A Chinese shop assistant sustained Slight injuries when an armed robber, angered by his resistance, fired two shots during a robbery staged by three gangsters at the Kyih Sung Lodging house in Fokien Road at 11.50 am. yesterday.
The gangsters two of whom were armed with pistols, entered room 133 of the establishment, where they held up the occupants and robbed them of $2,600 in cash and a gold ing, valued at about $200.
The robbers made their escape bedare the arrival of the police.
Earlier in the morning, a lone fob-her, armed with a Mauser pistol, at-Tsepoo Road of $3035, but an alarm, tempted to rob the occupants of 250 raised by one of his victims, brought Tt is learned tha one ofthe ea: eized his pistol and five rounds of complete <tandstil!. the police, who arrested the gangster, sted near the factory: tory ammunition. The crime occurred at 50 a.m.
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