The Archive · 1941

Visited by Robbers

Shanghai. Jan. 5.

Breaking into Tal Fong Lur' Restaurant at 431 Foochow Road early yesterday, two men, both speaking Northern dialect, intimidated the occupants and forced them to surrender the Key {0 the safe, from whicl they. took $10,000 nnd made their escape, after wounding one of the inmates when he refused to give the key to the robbers.

The crime took place at 3.30 am. when the two robbers got in under false pretences. Finding nothing at first, the miscreants noticed a safe and'demanded its key. They nally got it, but not before one of the inmates sustained a flesh wound in the for refusing to part with the With the money in their pocket the robbers hastened to withdraw, while the injured person was taken [to the Lester Chinese Hospital in an jSF.B. ambulance, The wound was inflieled with a small knife and was of a minot nature,

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