The bicyclist was waylaid by several gunmen who robbed him of more than $10 and decamped. This Lppened in the vicinity of Connaught Road and since the desperadoes fled into the Chinese area, the victim reported the case to the Chinese who took up the chase immediately. But the bandits were nowhere to be seen and so the officers started a house-to-house search. To their surprise, th suddenly heard a man shouting "help, help" in a house where they were knocking. There was no one to open the door and the officers were greeted with a volley of bullets just as they were trying to break in. No one was hurt but when they got in, there was a fierce exchange of shots.
All precautions have been taken to meet any The exchange resulted in four ki nappers being arrested, but it could not be ascertained yesterday whether or not there were any casualties. Questioned about the case, an officer of the Western District Police Bureau merely said that the four kidnappers had been handed over to Political Police of the new Nanking regime in Jessfield Road. It was reported that one of the kidnappers was hurt. The victim was found by the police wrapped up in a dirty matshed.
The Shanghai office of Nankings Political Police recently advertised for information to be furnished by relatives of kidnapped victims so as io facilitate investigations. Several kidnappers have already been arrest-€d by this police force and executed firing squads. Rumours are being ulated that the four kidnappers arrested on Thursday have met with the same fate. sequently sold to a Chinese named Ssu Ts-san.
"In taking the children from Shanghai to Amoy, the kidnappers employed a Chinese woman who passed rezself off as the mother of the tois.
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