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"SECRETS OF A NURSE"
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LESTER
by TOM LENNON and Based on the story"West Side Miracle”by Qventia Reynolds
Associate Producer: BURT KELLY
Directed by ARTHUR LUBIN,
CHARLES LAUGHTON
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1989
TWO KILLED IN CENTRAL AREA GUN BATTLE
A gun-battle between daring gangsters, armed with a revolver and an automatic pistol, and two Chinese detectives occurred in the heart of the city this morning shortly after 11 a.m. Bullets were fired at random by the gangsters in their desperate attempt to get away, with the result that two pedestrians were seriously wounded one suffering from three bullet and one Chinese detective, Wan Man, No. C612, was killed.
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One of the robbers was shot dead. A customer in the Wang Hing Attempted robbery is believed Shop, No. 39, Des Voeux Central to have been the motive of the just opposite the entrance to Lec
MORROW. "THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII” gangsters, who held up Mr. Cheung Yuen Street, was wounded in the
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Tak-chi, 30, manager of the Sino-left arm by a stray bullet which German Dispensary, in Wing Lok penetrated the arm and smashed a Street.
mirror in the shop.
Their plan being frustrated by The second pedestrian Was the sudden appearance of two wounded in front of No. 4, Lee Chinese Detectives, Nos. C612 and Yuen Street. C623, the gang of robbers attempt- ed to escape.
One, drawing an automatic pis- tol, fired from behind at Detective No. 612 as he was pursuing one of the robbers into Li Yuen Street. The bullets struck the officer in the spine and he fell unconscious
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1 GANGSTER KILLED In the course of the firing, one of the robbers was hit by a bullet fired by Detective No. 623. Tam Chung. The wound proved fatal and the man died in hospital.
Smart work by the Police, under Chief Detective Murphy and sever- half anal members of Homicide Squad, re- hour later in hospital.
sulted in one of the assailants be- BULLET IN SHOP
ing arrested close to scene. Continuing to fire, the robbers,
The revolver and automatic pis- ran down
Wing Lok Street into tol were also found by the Police, Des Voeux Road Central and turn- who are searching for the ed into Lee Yuen Street East.
assailant.
third
Seventeen Hurt In London Railway Crash
Seventeen people were injured when a Metropolitan line electric train bound for Hammersmith col- lided head on with a locomotive drawing a guard's van at Farring- don Station shortly before 10 o'clock.
scream. We pulled out our ban- dages and bound up several people who were cut by flying glass.
"We then tried to get out of the coach. Women were shouting 'Please let us out,' but the windows and doors were jammed and we The injured, who included three were unable to do anything. women. the driver of the electric "Finally some railway officials train and the locomotive fireman | came along the platform and and guard, were mostly suffering smashed the windows and let us from shock and cuts from flying out." glass. They were taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Farringdon Station was imme- diately closed to traffic. A shuttle The front half of the first car-service from both sides of the sta- riage of the Metropolitan train was telescoped.
After the crash the driver, found himself struggling amid wreckage and reached the platform unaided.
FIRST AID ON THE SPOT Two St. John Ambulance Bri-
tion was in operation for the late night service. Officials of the L.P.T.B. said that a normal service would be possible next day.
U.S. AMBASSADOR
gade officers were passengers in U.S.
the second coach of the Metro-
politan line train. One of them, & MR. DE
& MR. DE VALEAR
Cpl. W. J. Holah, aged 58, told a reporter that the crash jammed all the doors of his coach, and several Mr. Joseph Kennedy, the United passengers in it suffered from States Ambassador in London, has shock.
replied to Sir Joseph McConnell, "We rendered first aid," he said. M.P., who stated at an Orange "We tried to reach some of the meeting in Belfast that a Nation- passengers in the front coach whoalist paper in the Free State had were also injured, but were unable reported that Mr. Kennedy was to get through the doors...
The other St. John Ambulance officer was Sergt. Percy, aged 70
"Just as the train, was drawing out of the station I suddenly heard. a crash,” he said. "All the pas- sengers in our coach were hurled to the floor.
"PLEASE LET US OUT” "There were several women in the coach and they began to
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recently in Dublin, and the im plication was that he had tataful talks with Mr. de Valera about conscription.
The story is not true," Mr. Kennedy said, "I have not been to Ireland since July.
"The last time I saw Mr. de Valera was in Italy on March 18, and there was no talk of copscrip- tion then. In fact, I have never discussed the question with him."