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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928.

HOTEL ROBBERY,

DIAMOND RING AND CHEQUES STOLEN.

WANTED FÖR THEFT.

CHINESE ARRESTED ON 'BOARD TAISHAN.

A robbery of unusual magnitude Through the astuteness of a was enacted at the "Sun Tung shop fokl, a Chinese who managed Hing Boarding House of No. 68, to steal $693 from his master early Connaught Road, Central, yesteryesterday morning, was arrested day, when a Chinese, who arrived as he was trying to leave the In the Colony" on Tuesday night, Colony with the booty. WOB robbed of jewellery and The Incident occurred on the cheques, to the value of nearly Canton Wharf last night, when a $3,000.

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no menoy. Later, the police by the application of coercive methods, managed to get their man to divulge the hiding place of the money he had stolen." The arrest- ed person told the officer that the! money was hidden in his belt, hav- belt in such a way that it could not ing been sown into the centre of the be detected.

man was taken into custody by of The victim is Kwan Shun-ficers on search duty on the wharf, choong, who on arrival in the a few minutes prior to 10.80 p.m.| Colony with his nephew on Tucs-when the Taishan was due to sail day, rented a room in the Sun for Canton. Tung Hing Boarding House, A search on the body of the ar- They had with them little luggage, rested person revealed that he had their belongings being contained in several little leather bags.

One of these bags contained all the valuables these two persons possessed and it was thia one which was rifled by the robbers.

According to information gather ed from the boarding house, It would appear that Kwan and his, nephew left there shortly be fore noon yesterday and returned

The belt was immediately ripped a few minutes before 4 pm. They open and on the inside was found had locked the door of their room $625. In a purse carried by de- and taken the key with them but fondant was $10 in small change. Jon their return they found that and the man' also carried a ticket, the robbery had taken place. The for a fret class passage to Canton. door of their room, strangely The theft is alleged to have oc- enough, showed no signa, of hav-curred yesterday morning, when the ing been tampered with,

arrested person, who was employed The loss included a diamond at a salt fish shop in the Western ring valued at $1,300 and a num-district, saw a good opportunity ber of gold coins, also two bearer of stealing some money left on a chequer.

counter in a leather bag by, the The master The police was immediately master of the shop. called in and Detective Sergeant had given instructions to another Humphreys and number of foki ns to what to do with the Chinese detectives proceeded to money and where it was to be the Boarding House to make en-found.

Apparently these instructions got quiries. As a result of the police

to the ears of the arrested person investigations, it is surmised that the robber or robbers must fer as soon as the master left the have been long aware that the shop, he halted with the money.

Meanwhile the foki who was in- valuables of the two travellers structed to settle the firm's account, were contained in one particular missed the money and at once made bag, as the thieves made no al report at the No. 7 Police Station tempt to force open any of the and also supplied a description of others.

the missing foki. Although the Despite the fact that the em-police carried qut extensive ployees of the boarding house claim-searches in every possible place,. ed that, there was only one key to they did not come upon their man. the victim's room, the police on Last night, it occurred to the foki examining the various keys in the who made the report to the police possession of several of the am- that the thief might attempt to ployees of the boarding house leave the Colony. He therefore found that some of them fitted made an assiduous search amongst Room 14.

all the passengers on the boats due Two of the employees of the to leave for Canton. He found the a Chinese first boarding house were detained by wanted man In

class saloon on the Taishan and im- the police for enquiries.

mediately notified the police on the wharf. Following the arrest he jubilantly related the told of the

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exports ranges from own total exports of manufac taining the consent of the Cham-a comment on the Board of Trade factured

overnens trade returns just pub- £550,000,000 to £600,000,000 a year. tures."

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The decision of the Leamington Minister of Finance, explained "British manufacturers would factured imports (as to value)

matches has caused something of a that the usual procedure was fol- be well advised to study our re- could more than absorb Britain's Cricket Club to indulge in Sunday lowed but owing to his resigna-quirements carefully, as we are total exports in that category. tion Nahas Pasha himself assumed trying to study the requirements "If we assume that only 65 per sensation in the Midland spa. There the responsibility of aanctioning of Britain."

cent of the imports of the Domin- has been a storm of opposition, es- the payment. Much confusion "During an average year," he fons and Colonies represent manu-pecially as the club's decision was ensued, the Wafdists and Wata-states "the Dominions and factured articles," he adds, arrived at by a majority of one vote. Many prominent members nists exchanging acrimonious re-Colonies import from £850,000,000 means that they import from of the club have threatened to re- marks. Finally, the closure was to 1990,000,000 worth of goods; £550,030,000 to £600,000,000 worth

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