While' armed robberies in buses often have been reported in the western district, near Chinese territory, bus robbers last night, apparently desperate owing to the approach of the Mid-Autumn Festival settlement day tomorrow, became so audacious that they staged a hold-up in the downtown area.
A male Chinese travelling in the Route 4 bus along Bubbling Well Road, near Park Road, was victimized by three men who forced him to surrender his diamond ring worth $300 inside the vehicle. This happened at about 8.35 p.m. when there were fewer travellers than usual in the bus. The desperadoes decamped in a leisurely manner when the bus stopped.
Two armed crimes: were reported in the Gordon Road police district between 8.30 and 9 p.m. Three men, one of whom was armed, broke into a Chinese residence at 158 Changping Road and got away with $25 later. Half an hour later three other men, one armed, victimized another Chi ese residence at 643 Ferry Road to the extent of $70. ' At 9.20 p.m. yet three other robbers visited a house et 979 Tonquin Road and decamped with $220. endure 3 to 1 losses as admitted by Britain's Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill.
Hence, it seems reasonable to expect the withdrawal of the British Government from London at an early date to a more defensible, if not impregnable, spot in interior England.
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