While investigating a "robbery during a house-to-house search, the Shanghai Special Municipality Police in the western district htard a-man shouting for help inside a house and when they broke in, they unexpectedly rescued a kidnapping victim after a fierce exchange of shots with four kidnappers, all of whom were arrested. The rescued man is Ching Ben-jen, manager of the Jen Feng Rice Shop in Brenan Road, who was carried away on September 3 by a group of kidnappers driving in a Johnson hire car. He has returned home safely, after undergoing interrogation at the Chinese police station.
Ching's rescue was effected in a most thrilling and interesting manner on Thursday morning by some police officers and men attached to the new Chinese city regime, who never dreamed that he was held a prisoner in a small house just behind a Chinese funeral parlour in the extra-Settlement road area near Connaught Road known as the World Funeral Bureau. In a way, they were helped by some robbers in the rescue work, because they were tryirg to arrest the robbers when they discovered Ching. The robbers, who held up a bicyclist, are still at large, however.
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