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P. & O. BANK ROBBERY. The other five men went straight

SEVEN MEN HOLD UP `THE CLERKS.

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toward the side entrance of the building which is used solely by the shroffs smployed by the Cor- poration,

Resistance Quickly Suppressed.

On the right of a long-hallway Shanghai, Oct. 18. Flourishing pistols in approved Ing room and opening of this on as they entered is the shroff's din- fashion and with the sureness and the inside is the compradore's aplomb of a well organized gang private office. Two of the number seven poorly dressed Chinese cool- ly marched into the shroff's bank pushed open the door to the dining room and found the Chinese Ing department of the P. & 0. Barking Corporation,

watchman who questioned them. The Bund, Shanghai, st 5.55 p.m. laat interrogation he had been folled Bafore he could complete the night and after a five-minute stay by a kick and as he lay on the decamped as quietly as they had ground a pistol was thrust in his come with the cash box containing face and he was told to keep Tis. 1,041 and two handfuls of silent. Too frightened and taken notes believed to total somewhat by surprise to think coherently, over $250.

During the five minutes much The complied happened. Two of the gang had trance to the shroff's banking com- Opposite this door is the en- stood guard at the Bund entrance partment with the counter and to the small compound, one man iren grill work comprising a had invaded the shroff's dining small "1" One man suddenly room where he found the Chinese appeared in this space and called unarmed

watchman, "who was on the clerks behind the counter effectively silenced with a pistol to remain seated and make no out- in his face, another had entered cry. He enforced his request with the small space for clients and a vicious-looking pistol which ho cowed the clerks behind the iron thrust through the bars and waved railing, and three had gone for about menacingly.

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the door leading to the clerks' Several of those Insides rose to space behind the counters.

These latter with a sureness door at their rear, which also their feet when, through an open that raised no question as to their opened off the hallway but farther knowledge of the interior arrange down than the one in which ap ments, headed straight for the peared the lone bandit, came thres cash drawer and lifted the cash companions, two of whom further box from its accustomed resting covered the scared clerks with place, deposited it under one of their pistols whilst one, who seem- thair long gowns and on the way ed to be the leader, went straight out were joined by the others of to the chief shroff's desk and push- the gang who quickly melted in ing him aside removed the cash the press of pedestrians along, the box from the centre drawer. Bund,

Aa Boon as the astonished shroffs and clerks realized what had happened they informed the foreign heads of the Company and the burglar alarm was set in me tion.

Shantung Dialect.

What little talk came from the

bandits was recognized as being in the Shantung dialect but no un- necessary words were wasted...

the cash box had been thrust un

They worked quickly and once.

It brought a police party on the double under Dot-Sgt. Glover from the Central Police Station, der the leader's jacket another of but so hastily had the robbery the number walked to a cash been carried out that by the time drawer beneath the counter and the police arrived their aid was scooped up what notes were with- confined to listening to a score of in. These had not been counted explanations of how the affair had but as far as compilations revealed happened.

laat night, they amounted to close ♦n 5250.

Once the cash had been secured the three turned and went out of the door and were joined by the others who had been awaiting them at the other doorwaya along

Knowledge of Bank's Workings.

All explanations agree that the theft was put in motion and car ried to success with a well planned smoothness that hinted of much thought and a completo know the hall. ledge of the interior workings of the bank.

Their pistols were immediately Though the Bund was not fre-out into the compound and on to put out of sight and they stepped quented at the time the affair took the Bund, where they were joined place, with the full press of pass by the two outer guardians, seven. ers by, there were enough civilians innocent looking Chinese with no- in the vicinity, it might have been thing outward to mark them as be thought, to deter the thieving proing any differont from the hun- pensities of average robbers, but dreds of others near by. not so these seven. They utilised the number of persons

The investigation last night was Bund as their greatest aid in mak-Insp. James A. Quayle, who issued, on the being conducted by Chief, 'Det.- Ing their escape and after quitting instructions that all exchange the P. & O. compound, once the shops should refuse to accept tael theft had been committed, they notes bearing any chop of the disappeared 15 completely as P. & O. Banking Corp. though the earth had opened and swallowed them.

In the opinion of police officials the affair was one of the most

With an effrontery that has daring ever carried out on a for- seldom been equalled in Shang-eign bank in Shanghai. hai's most daring robberies, their first move was to past two of their: number by the stone pillars at the entrance to the Bund from the P. & 0. compound. Just what these guards would have dona had Interference bren offered was never questioned as the gang worked with clocklike precision and the affair was over before anyone chanced to put in an appearance.

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