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ROBBERS.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER AT
SHANGHAIS
BRITISH DETECTIVE WOUNDED: TWO CHINESE DETECTIVES KILLED, ONE WOUNDED.
ONE ROBBER SHOT, FOUR CAPTURED.
The N.4". Daily News of April 29th AULYS:-
wan Yib Tuhoes, Nox 28. He was a mhn of whom the police were especially proud. Joining the force in 1911, he has acquitted himself so well that the ordin ary record card has proved insufficient to hold details of his many commendations. Mis conduct has been brought to notice and rewarded time after tine, his ex ploits including the capture of, foreign
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PROCEEDINGS AT THE INQUEST. Later in the day Magistrate Yui- and Mr. Jacobs belt an inquest on the first Chinese detective and the robber who The long immunity of foreign invmbers were killed. A verdict was returned that of the Shanghai Police Force from scri- the detective met his death through being ous àsonal: by Chinese was again broken Mot by red robbers, a rider being add
as decensed was ed to the effect that, yesterday, when, in a dranistic affair at killed in the performance of his duty as
Chinese lodging-house, Detective Suba police officer, it is recommended that Airy Rooms, Bathrooms Apply-YUKAM term of 75 years. Inspector J. W. Prince, of West Hongkewdants. In the case of the robber, denth
sultable provision be made for his dependING c/o Mesars JoRNHOS STOKES & MASTER, Station, received a bullet wound, for was due to shots bred by Sub-Inspector tubately not very dangerous, * Rad as | Prince," for which the Court attached as this was, it was, unfortunately, the least blame to him, but praise. serious part of the affair, for a Chinesa Det. Sub-Inspector Prince, who was detective was killed in the house and two able to attend and give evidence, said that others wounded, one so badly that the two Chinese detectives preceded him into died yesterday evening, whilst a member the room and grappled with the robbers, of the gang the policu were after was also † who ware in bed. During the wéléc one killed.
jor two of them rushed out. Witness en-. deavoured to fire at these men," but re- Prince, who is the well-known gamealized that it was impossible to do so shot and billiar) pinyer, was shot several owing to the detectives being in too dan years ago in another affray, with urged gerous proximity. A man shot at witness robbers, his injuries then being consider and tried to pass him. Witness stepped ably more serious and it is a curious, fart to one side and the shot went over his that, only on Wednesday night, some shoulder. After taking cover behind a friends were joking with him in a club projecting wait, witness fired a shot and about the affair and he maid: Well, struck the man, who was trying to leave anyway, they won't get me again. "I the Toom, but withdrew the pistol: as the learat enough then to see that no other chest and shoulders of another man were. Chinese gets a shot at me." Within 12 showing behind the wall. Witness waited hours he was being taken to hospital, for a few seconds and fired two shots at wounded by a bullet that had missed the the man, who then fell down. buse of his spine by a fraction. The news will be welcomed that the injury was not sufficiently serious to confine the popular detective to hospital; indeed, he was out again during the day, assisting farther in the inquiries,
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The story of the outrage recalls the famous Sidney Street affair in Londen, of which it was a reproduction on a small The maoy gangs ofdesperadoes, armed and otherwise, who commit felonies and racape arrest do not fool the police quite so much a many people may be Inclined to think. The majority" are well-known and can be identified, the real trouble being to find them when they get into hiding in the rabbit warrens of the side streets of the Settlement. For s long time the police of every station have been following clues for the capture of a notorious gang, wanted for many crimes and the lines were beitig drago close in. A NEAT ARREST.
SHOT FROM BEHISP.
It was impossible to enter the place that way without being shot, so witness tried to get in by another door. He moved about four paces and her a shot from behind, which struck witness. The robber who fired dropped from the roof
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ato the alleyway. Four of the robbers DAIRY FARM NEWS. in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of hnd pistols and several escaped in the me.
It was stated by the police that five men and two women had been arrested in connection with the affair.
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who is a fellow of splendid physique, a appears that one of the men arrested, compact mass of muscle and brawn, is the actual leader of a very dangerous gang-a very clever lot of scoundrels, too. One of the Settlement detectives gives it Prince received reliable information as his opinion that this gang, as a whole, that a scout or head of the gang was or in small parties, has been responsible living in a house in Canton Road. It for practically every armed robbery that was out of his district, but the police has taken place in the Settlement for do not waste time on little niceties of several months past. etiquette in such matters, so Prince, set out early yesterday morning, leter tive Sergeant Robertson and a number Chigese detectives, to rid the bouse Here everything favoured the police and the wanted man found himself hand- cuffed before he quite knew what was hap pening.
THE REST OF THE CANO.
THAGED FROM SHAOHSING,
in a desperate affair at Shaohsing and Some while ago they were concerned they knew that Shaohsing detectives had succeeded in tracing them to Shaughni, Therefore, they never stayed anywhere without having sentries posted. Thus it was that, wheu Detective, Sub-Inspector "Prince's party raided the loging house and summoned the inmifites of the gang's room to let them in, they were of "the opinion that the Shaohsing men were after thein.' -
Though making but a solitary capture, Prince gained valuable additional in formation to the effect, that more of the | gang were living at a lodging-house, No
40, Pakhoi Road, to which place they The sentry looked over the visitors bastened. In view of what subsequently through a chink in the door and, seeing happened, it is more than likely that a a foreiguer, it was decided that the only warning was transmitted by one of the thing was to fight for it, Thus it will mysterious methods of communication of be the more appreciated what a great which the Chinese are masters, for the service Prince has done in breaking up police, instead of taking the gang at a the gang. The leader aforementioned disadvantage, were themselves surprised, was not at first recognized, though his Leaving the captive in the charge of record was well-known, for he had given Robertson and two or three Chinese deteca false name. He has since been identi taves, Prince entered the house with the fed. The man Prince shot has also been rest, about 6.30 .. Built in the ram-identified as the man who shot a theatre bling style of all Chinese houses, it offer proprietor in Haining. Road, recently. ed orery obstacle the police could havo Further examination of the room in hoped to avoid. However, they located which the robbers put up their great fight the room where the suspects were, the showed it to be a regular shambles and it door of which was fastened.
hat was scarcely possible to step anywhere Five bai without walking through blood.
people are known to have beep shot, one
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It is not quite clear whether one of of the detectives being absolutely riddled LONDON BUYING AGENTS the police burst the door open, or whewith bullets and it is believed other men
ther it was suddenly unbolted from inside. At any rate, of a andden there came a fusillade of shots, to which Prince replied. He was wounded, but he man.
who escaped were also probably hit.
aged to shoot and kill the man who RUSSIAN brought him down. Then one of the Chinese detectives did a very plucky, thing. It is a maxim of the police that,
REPRESENTATION
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ou raids, the first man into a room shall A COMMERCIAL TREATY WANTED. immediately got to the farther side of it, in case there is another way of exist This man had only been transferred to the detective branch this week and had not passed the tests which permit of a detrative being armed, so he did not carry a pistol, but he rashed across the room as he had been taught and was shot dead by the robbers.
The Chinese government has been in formed by Dr. Koo, Minister to London, that he has been verbally informed by H. Krassin, Soviet Representative to Great Britain, that if there is no objec- tion on the part of the Peking Govern ment, the Soviet Government in Moscow, will despatch a Bussian Soviet Mission for the negotiation" of a new commercial Meanwhile, detectives had grappled with treaty between China and Boritt Russia men, who fired from their beds. Two on the basis of the Russo-British commer other Chinese detectives were wounded, cial agreement. M. Krassin, adds that one so seriously that from the frat his M. Yourin's Mission in Peking represents life was despaired of. After the first only the Far Eastern Republic, which
A FIERCE' MELZE.
volleys the men in the room made a rush is independent from Soviet Russia, and for the street, during which one was club- Moscow desires separate representation bed by an officer and held, whilst two in China..
others were caught by defectives outside.
It cannot be said for certain how many
men, there were in the room, but it THE OLD STYLE OF CEMENT thought there were at least two others
Who.man Prince shot still held piztal
when his dead body was picked up.
As soon as a report of the affair reached with their disfiguring and annoying dividing the Central Station, the Commissioner
and Chief Detective Inspector Burnside ino has been supplanted by a new lens, with two hurried to the scene whilst the chief of foci, called Kryptok invisible bifocal lens the detective, force, Mr. W. Armstrong,
want to see that Prince got every atten The upper portion of the glass for distance and tion possible, The senior officers found
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