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GANG ARRESTED
TUESDAY, APRIL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
BURGLARY ATTEMPT.
CHINESE FOUND ON STAIRS OF CITY FLAT
MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR DARING ROBBERIES
the
Six men, comprising one of the most desperate gangs of robbers encountered by the Kowloon Police for some time, were rounded up in six different addresses In Mongkok and Shamshulpo between 10 p.m. on Friday and 9 am, on Saturday. These men, under lendership of one who' la belleved to be a former pirate, are said to be res ponsible for the two daring rob- beries in Kowloon last month, when the cashiers of two money changers' shops were held up at the point of the
pistol
and the robbers decamped with various sums of money. Tho robberies were so well-planned and so neatly perpetrated that the Police had the greatest dificulty in obtaining the slightest clue
1934.
MODERN FACTORY
A NEW LOCATION FÖR COMMERCIAL PRESS
on charge of attempted
An extension of the work of the' burglary at No. 18 Hillier Street, Chinese Commercial Press is about second floor, the residence of Lam to be undertakes with the com- Ko, a clerk employed at the General plotion of the now factory covering Post Office, Kwan Yat-chi, 28, an area of 150,000 square feet at stated to be well-known to the North Point, Police, was sent to prison for three From the very small beginninge months by Mr. Macfadyen in the 35 years ago, the concern has be Central Police Court yesterday come the largest of its kind in morning.
China, the Important part it has Defendant when arrested, was taken in the Cultural and educa- found to have in his possession ational growth of the country being torch and a knife, while near his gauged by the fact that from its feet on the atops. was a chisel. works at Shanghai and Peiping Tho door of the second floor hundreds of thousands of text. had
been damaged. Defendant books are turned out a year. stated he was there to look for hia fourth uncle, named Al Sze, but enquiries revealed that the third floor had been empty for the past twenty days,
When Sino-Japanese hostilitled broke out at Shanghai at the ond of 1931, the very extensive works of the Company at Chapel was
tho
The Kowloon section of the Gri minal Investigation Department, Sub-Inspector Smith: The defen. totally destroyed by the Japanese under Detective Inspector Dorling, dant is known to the Police. He was stances brought about the necca- guns, and the changed circum- has not relaxed its efforts to bring arrested last month by the larceny Rity of an orientation of polley, these men to justice. Recognising aquad and detained. Enquiries them as desperato and clever cri-wore made, as he was suspected to minals, Inspector Dorling sent de- be a member of a gang of bad tectives all over the Colony and even characters, but there WILS not into Chineso territory, for informa- Jenough evidence to charge him. tion. After a month of assiduous investigation, Inspector Dorling |
different addresses in Kowloon.
decision was reached to concen-
In the following year,
trate on the Hongkong branch, and a site for a new, larger and moro up-to-date works to replace the present one at Kennedy Town, ment, on the. foreshore at North was purchased from the Govern- Point, directly opposite the Ming Yuen film studio. This site was reclaimed and construction of the dollar plant, com- menced last year. has now been completed.
Ono
most of the
modern factories of its kind in Hongkong. it will give employment to 3,500 workers of both sexes.
had his mon tracked down to six the brains behind the organisation, With a posse of European and In his possession the Police found Chinese detectives in plain clothes, two revolvers, one automatic pistol Inspector Dorling swooped down on and 28 rounds of ammunition, but these houses on Friday night and he realised the game was up and half-million
Aubmitted quietly. "AL arrested all the men he wanted. though the raids lasted the whole night, it speaks volume for the Police organisation that none of these men had time to be warned before the officers of the law were literally at their doorsteps.
Leader Arrested,
Six Men in Court.. Before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday six men were charged with committing robbery at the Mel Hung Chan money-changers at No. 68 Shanghai Street, on February 18, and ali ex- cept one are charged with a robbery
Machinery at a cost of $400,000 Is boing moved into the building, which fronts the 100 fect-wide Shaukhwan Road,
The plans for the building wore
It is a source of great satisfac-nt 109 Keelung Street. One of the tion to the Police that the man men also faces a further charge they were really after was arrested of being in possession of arma prepared by Messrs. Leigh and without the slightest resistance. without a permit, while a third is | Orange, the well-known local firm This man is known to the Police as charged with returning from of architects, while Mossm, Sing an ex-pirate, and is believed to be banishment.
Kee were the contractors.
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