Shanghai, Feb. 9.
A letter demanding $1,000 for the return of her four-year old child was Feceived at 4 pin. yesterday by Mrs, Wong, a Chinese taxi dancer, whose boy, Wong Sian Bing Koo, disappeared from outside his home at 158- Sima Road shenly afternoon yester Mrs. Wong immediately reported the abduction to the Sinza police Station and investigations were starled, Up to a late hour yesterday, however, the boy was still in the hands of his abductor. to keep orderly conditions going for the millions of Chinese and the thousands of foreigners in Shanghai. The Couneit Is prepared to deal with anybody who can help it to at this object. Another line of criticism fs that the Council has claimed too much in the Western Area. There again, my answer is that all that the Council's main concern is to do its best to fulfil its obligations to those who have gone to live in the Outside Roads areas in the belief that they of the Racecourse Arson Shanghai, Feb, 5, Moving swiftly to remove any misunderstanding which might have arisen, the Japanese Consulate-General, in a statement at 7 o'clock last night," announced that the two Japanese who attempted to set_fire io the matshed at the Shanghai Race Course early on Monday morning Ihave been apprehended and are now undergoing rigid investigation, Matsunosuke Morianags, 40-year old unemployed, and Morlaki Kuba, 22-year old employee of the Kokusai Unyu Kaisha, a transfer company, after an abortive allempt to burn the matshed at the Race Course where the Special Meeting of Ratepayers 1s due to reconvene this afternoon, fled to the Western District at the: entrance of which they were stopped and) held by Japanese military sentries.
According to the Consulate-General's announcement, the two men were detained by the sentries and later "taken to" the Gendarmerie:
Josepho, Western Police OMelat rumoured that Mr, J. BP, Blenkinsop, pictured above, witt head the Crime Braieh of the Western Arca Polles Fore. Holding the rank of Chief-tuspector with the SAP. Mr. Blenkinsop has been in charge of the Suse potice statto headquarters of the Western District for questioning, The same afternoon, Morinaga and Kuba were turned over to the Japanese Consular Police.
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