Two  American women were injured in an attempted robbery on Lantern Street Friday night.  A group of thugs accosted the women as they were waiting for a taxi near the Stumbling Tiger bar.  When the women refused to surrender their valuables, the dishonorable thugs attacked them with knives and clubs.  A quick-thinking Japanese man came to their rescue and managed to shoot all four assailants dead.  The two women were taken to the Hongkew hospital for treatment.  Lantern Street regulars decried the increase in senseless violence that has accompanied the retreat of the defeated Chi Shi-yuan mercenaries into Shanghai.  It is fervently hoped that the recent accord between Marshal Chang and  Marshal Sun Chuan-fang will result in the removal of these dishonorable bandits.

 

                                                                                                                                               - SHANGHAI COURIER, May 12, 1925