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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929.

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ATTEMPTED ROBBERY,

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An attempted robbery occurred traffickers in children and the pr. vorterday afternoon at 3.20 at No. test of over twenty alleged inem-17, Kai Yin, Fong, second floor. bera in the growning achievement when three men forced an en- to many weeks of patient work on trance into the place. The prin the part of the Hongkong Polica elpal tenant, named Fok Shum-aze, authorities of the Colony,

a married woman, reports that, the Behind an official intimation robbers, who were armed with made yesterday that those arrent knives, made off, running in the ed will be deported from the direction of U Lam Terrace ami Colony, an amazing story is told Chine Road, when an alarm was of an organization which had been raised. set up for the sole purpose of engaging in the buying and sell ing of children, extending even to the establishment in this Colony of a system of brokerage by which the traffic here in facilitated.

A chase was takon up, and according to n Police report a suspect was arrested by a sanitary coelle. Nothing had been stolen.

11 de understood that the three men entered the house under the The buying and selling of chil- pretext of coming to fix the dren of parents in indigenous cir-telephone. The trio were. met cumstances. is nothing surprising by a girl about 12 years old, who in itself it is a custom as old as said that the telephone was in China. But what has made it good condition, but the men serious enough to warrant, special forced their way in and produced police attention of late is that knives and threatened the in- from merely isolated cases, the mates. The girl got away and buying and selling of children has summoned assistance, being cut grown into the proportions of a in the hand by one of the robbers, local traffic.

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