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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH & 1937.
DEFENCE PLANS
SHANGHAI
SHAID BANK
ROBBERY
SENSATIONAL RAID
Shanghai, March 3. With daring suggesting a raid
men.
NEARING
FULL PRODUCTION
Sir Inskip's Statement
HASTE COST “TENS
- OF MILLIONS”
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by cinematographic gangsters, Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for two gunmen walked into the the Co-ordination of Defence, made crowded Nanking Road branch an important reference to the pro- of the Bank of Communications gress of the Government's rearma- at 11.10 am. yesterday and, ment programme.. He was address- while one
stood guard inside ing the Fareham Conservative As- the door, the other went to the sociation at Fareham, Hants.
"We are now," declared Sir rear, leaped over the counter and obtained 20 estimated Thomas, "approaching that happy |$10,000 in five and ten dollar period when everything will be in full production, and I shall have notes.
On their way out, both robbers the satisfaction of seeing those fired at an aged watchman sitting things produced in actual concrete near the door, one bullet wound-reality for which so much painful ing the man critically in the abdo- and laborious preparation has been
|necessary."
Costly Experiment The men then escaped and van- ished in the crowd on Nanking). He hoped, he said, that we should Road.
never again as a nation make the The robbery, which must have mistake of allowing our defences to been carefully planned, was car-fall into a state of disrepair, which ried out expertly in such short he was afraid was the case up to time that the 25 employees of the two years ago. bank and the large number of cus- "It was a very costly experi- tomers were taken completely by ment," went on Sir Thomas. surprise. It was all over in less was done with the best of motives. than three minutes. One ra From one point of view. I do not the across Nanking Road, and was im-
regret it. We tried to show maze ofi mediately lost in the
world what an honest attempt at The alleyways in the district.
disarmament meant. other one escaped apparently along
"We took the risk, but it has Nanking Road, Shanghai's main
cost us millions and tens of millions and busiest thoroughfare, itself.
While the robbers were still on of money to re-equip the nation in clerks haste, when it would have been much the premises, one of the sounded an alarm at Louzs Station easier, to have done it in a regular, by the automatic system used by methodical way, which would have banks, but although the Police been possible if it had been done. turned out quickly the gummen year by year. had vanished.
Brighter Outlook
"It'.
"We must think of this business WELL-DRESSED MEN
sudden According to eye-witnesses, the of rearmament not as a
he two men mingled with the crowd spurt for a particular crisis," of customers without attracting at added. "I hope the war so much tention. Both youngish Chinese talked about will never come. dressed in foreign-style clothes, "Indeed, I think things are very one, of medium height and without much brighter to-day than they Overcoat, stayed near the door
were when I last addressed you,
"39 STEPS where he could keep an eye on the
Chinese watchman seated, under but, taking the long view, I think that what we want to do is to put. instructions from the management,
our three Services on a settee a few yards from the
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entrance. The other robber, who state of repair,to
2 proper them the
was described as a tall, athletic equipment they need, and then not man wearing a grey topcoat and to stop when this panic or crisis is carrying a wicker basket in hand, went to the rear and paused
one over.
"We want to carry on in a re-
at the counter behind which tellers gular businesslike way, keeping the were working with piles of bank-firms upon which we depend alive notes in front of them.-
with a regular flow of orders.
"We are rebuilding the organisa- He hesitated a moment, drew a
never to have revolver and gracefully swung him- tion, which ought
been allowed to collapse, and I hope self over the counter as the tellers, clerks and customers gaped in we shall maintain that organisation astonishment. He flung the wie in the years to come without hav- ker basket onto a desk and de-ing to go through this painful and manded that the teller there fill it expensive process which we are ex- with banknotes. Impatiently, he periencing at the present time.
If they could carry out the Gov- helped the terrified youth shove bundles of notes into the basket, ernment programine and at the same then seized it and again cleared time let the big firms cultivate their the counter. Basket in one hand export trade, they would avoid with and revolver in the other, he start those unhappy consequences
ed for the door. At that moment which they had been so familiar in. his confederate, armed with a 32 the past. automatic pistol, fired at the seat fed watchman at close range.
In a few seconds both men were outside the door, where they seper sted.
CRITICALLY HIT-
The condition of the aged watch- man he never had a chance to
CORONATION CROWNS
An experimental issue of 50,000 five shilling pieces is to be made in Australia for the Coronation.
The new coins are intended as Coronation souvenirs, but if they
draw his own pistol-was reported prove popular they will be retained They will be as critical at the Lester Hospital. as normal currency
He was taken to hospital in a Fire smaller in diameter than the crown still occasionally seen in England, Brigade ambulance..
Detectives, it is understood, ob-but thicker. tained detailed descriptions of the two robbers. The crime is con- sidered one of the boldest commit Ited by armed men in the Settle
ment in recent mouths and perpetrated by men of conside criminal experience.
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