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FREDRIC MARCH
Thursday,
Shanghai
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SUSPECTED ASSASSIN ARRESTED
Shanghai, Apr. 12.
April 13, 1939.
Police Clean Up Two ALHAMBRA
Year Old Mysteries
"THE" POLICE never sleep," was what an Officer of the Hongkong Police Force, once fo'cularly told a reporter.
It seems to have been proved by the latest arrest made by ; the Kowloon Police,
on
March 1. the word at present
One of the two Chinese gunmen who attacked and killed instantly Dr. 8. T. Shih secretary-General to the
In April, 1938, Mrs. H. E. possession police bureau of the Shanghai Special Municipality, on Tuesday was ar Harkinson, who was passing owners of which rested in a Chinese hospital on Paku through Hongkong, on board the unknown,-into the custody of the Road
Police, I was revealed, Chinees.constables wounded one of 8.8. Ranpura, reported to the the two in the abdomen. Arrested Police the loss of jewellery to while undergoing medical treatment, the value of £240, and in June of the man gave himself as Peng the same year, Mr. N. Stockton, lin, 23 years old, a native of Soo-Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, chow.-Domei,
informed the police of the loss of a portable gramophone, valued at $80. Shanghai, Apr. 13, from his house in Observatory Road. The Japanese Consul General, Mr. Mrs. Harkinson has long since left Yoshiaki Miura, to-day called on Hongkong, and has probably forgot Mr. C. S. Franklin, Chairman of vol ton her fost valuables. But if she like c. Woodhouse." On Interrogation, Shanghai Municipal Council, and can be traced now she will have the handed him a note requesting con- satisfaction of viewing again part of Chan admitted stealing them. At trol of the anti-Japanese Press in the the stolen jewellery which has been the moment I have been unable to
traco the whereabouts of International Settlement.
recovered by the Pollce in consC-
owners.
PRESS CONTROL
Polico Raid
Inspector Corey said that on March the binoculars were found in a on the same day Chan, Kwok-yan, house in Reclamation Street. Later defendant in the foregoing case, was taken before him and on his person was found the cigarette bosc.
Continuing,
tho
Inspector said: Inside the cigarette ease was a name which had been partially erased but which, on being treated. chemically,
brought out and found to be
"On March 3 I received from a detective, who had been sent to
It is understood that the Japanesequence of the arrest of the thief, authorities, pointed out that steps should be taken against the anti- Chan Kwok-yan, 24, was in a house | Macao, a camera, which Chân ad- Japanese press in pursuance of the conciliatory spirit which inspired in Portland Sreet on March 1 when mitted he had stolen from an Em- the understanding recently concluded the Police raided it. Chan was ar-press boat."
tvas The application was granted. The between the Municipal Council and reated and on the premises
the Japanese authorities regarding found a gold pearl brooch, a gold articles will remain in Police custody
12 months, pending an opal and emerald for the maintenance of inw and order in diamond brood, and three strings of After that period there is power to.
brooch
the Settlement.
The
goods.
claims,
Mr. Franklin is understood to have jade, agate and crystal beads, pro-apply for the confiscation of the promised to give due consideration perty of Mrs. Harkinson.
before to the Japanese request, Japanese JOAN BENNETT in
circles point out that the Chinese Mr. of Chan
at the Kowloon press in the International Settlement Magistracy to-day was a sequel to the is currying on a vigorous anti-raid. Chan was charged with larceny | Japanese agitation-Domei.
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