Active Search for Men Who Held up Buses Colonel Lu Ying, chief of the Chinese police attached to the Shanghai Special Municipality, has issued an order to his force requiring his men to arrest as soon as possible the bandits who have been operating in the extra-Settlement road areas the western district and who were so daring as to have shot and killed a Chinese detective who was sent to the scene to investigate following a recent bus hold-up.
According to the "Centr: China Daily News" the detective, Liu Cheng-ming, was shot while riding in a rickshaw on Monday afternoon. When he was nearing a Chinese funeral parlour in Avenue Haig, two gunmen in ambush fired two shots from behind. One of the bullets pierced his head, but the rickshaw puller, not realizing that his customer had been shot, went on until he was stopped by a watchman who saw blood gushing out from the victim's forehead. crimes committed both in the Concession and Settlement were senienced to prison terms ranging between 30 months and eight years yesterday by the First Special District Court. They were arrested over a long period of time through the joint efforts made by the Settlement and Concession police. Six of the sentenced men were handed over to the French police this morning so that they might be tried in the Sec-and Special District Court for crimes committed in the Concession.
A suspected extortioner named "Woo Tsung-yih was detained by the same court Woo, described as a book seller, was charged by another Book store keeper named Z. C. Koh who operates at 8 Kuling Road with threatening him with his life if he did not pay $10,000. The complainant told the court that the threatening letter was signed by the "Blue Shirt Corps." After receiving the letter he at once suspected that the job had been done by the accused Who had complained that he (Koh) was selling books at cheaper prices. The statements hinted that there had been business rivalry but- accused denied that he had written the letter.
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