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The robbers who were armed with
: revolvers and bamboo spears attempted to plunder a chinese house in Victoria harbour
and they
succeeded in
sarrying off nearly
three hundred dollars worth of property. The
police appear
to have come down in small
mumbers to the seene
of the outrage; and the
robbers managed to get away
steam launch
they
in boats and
in
had
seized.
d
One of them
however was captured in a drain, and another
was
1
Killed in resisting the Police . The steam
launch was
at Kowloong.
3.
found next morning
ashore
The robber who was shot has been
recognized as an old inmate of the Kongsong Geol and it is supposed that others
gang belong
to the same class.
the
of
The
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robbery is said to have been planned by the ordinary Hongkong
been
4.
an
thieves, and not to have
attack from outside.
The four policemen, the district.
watchman and the clerk, who were wounded
are in the
in attempting to capture the robbers. Civil Hospital, where I have visited them and ascertained that they are going
rvell.
D'Ayres and D. Horch are both of opinion that at present they
are all likely
recover.
5.
to
As in the cases mentioned in
Mr. Creagh's report for last
year,
I have
communicated the details to Her Majesty's
Consul at banton, and offered the reward
ま
($200) recommended by. Mr. Deane. Though
sve
failed to capture either of the armed __
WEDI CHANI