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TUESDAY, MARCH 16,

ALBERT

FOR

DAINTY DISHES

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS

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TERRIBLE FIGHT.

BANDITS.

VICTIM RESCUED..

THE CHINA MAIL.

up against no ordinary resistance with atred anduction of the wo abd also that they would prob- compradore stated above as Haw Fably require more ammunition | Ing been rariored to his farmilly, POLICE OVERPOWER GANG OF than they cared

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·MORE AMMUNITION, NEEDED. present in the Police Hospital In consequence of which an bullet wounds in the thigh and underyagaad suffering from emergency called sent in to thumb which he sustained in the headquarters for men as well as grim battle. Wong was one of ammunition and upon the arrival the men reported to have en of the the attack upon the kid-caped during the fight. nappers' stronghold was renewed was captured in an adjacent The house was completely sur house within two and a half rounded by between one, and two hours after the rescue of the hundred police and a fierce battle kidnapped compradore. The two aged between the law and the women were taken into custody outlawed which lasted well into almost simultaneously as being the afternoon

Rccomplices.

The most sensational encounter the police of Shanghai have had with armed kidnappers for many years took place shortly after diffin on March 8 at a house situated near the Old West Gate, Chinese City, when between one and two thrandred members of the Shanghai Muniolpal Police,

During the fight grave fears the Chinese police and the Mer chamb Protection Corps joined were held for the safety of the forces and routed out a desperate that the bandits seeing that they compradore as it was believed gang of Chinese gunmen who for several hours resisted the attackers about to fall into the hands by the police and were only over of the police would under him powered after a thriing and

body encounter.

out of revenge.

Mounted upon the roofs of the adjoining houses the attacking force poured a murderous fire into the impromptu fort of the

both

in the encounter two were slain Of the three kidnappers Jilled in the house fist attacked while the third met his end in an on- deavour to escape across the roof of an adjoining house. His ap-

Three of the desperadoes were killed outright and several others wounded daring the encounter, reports the "Shanghai Mercury authows and the for son show while only one member of the of the lead. A mat amount of ed signs of the detating effects attacking force sustained any in..

ammunition.. was used by jury. he being a native police sides and judging by the continued sergeant who was alightly in fire of the bandits they must have jured in the leg. Nearly a dozen had a huge store of spare am- arrests were made including: several women and in addition

munition. the rescue of the compradore of the Ewo Cotton Mill-information of whose whereabouts led to the raidway effested after his hay ing been in the hands of the kid nappers since the morning of February 8, at which time he was abducted by a gang of armed men and enrried off in a motor cur from his house at No. 212,. Myburgh Road A Chinese chauf- feur who was compelled by the gang to drive the car which car ried off the compradore at the time of his abduction was also rescued in the raid.

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pearance

on the roof was the signal for an outburst of police fire and he collapsed upon the tiles riddled with bullets.

TWO ESCAPE

He

As the request of the police the accused were remanded

imy Court on March 10,, at a special custody to appear before the hearing to be held when all the men and woman arrested in, con- nection with this affair were to come up fe trial upon charges, of armed abduction, being mem- bers of organised gang of armed kidnappers, etc.

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The gang who occupied the house were five in number On Sunday. March 7, the authors. ties took into custody six men whom they suspected of being: The raid, though expected to be concerned it the abduction of the quite exciting, as all such raids compradore. Information gather. are to the police, was never ex-ed from these was responsible: Ppected to assume the proportions for the raid.. Two mem which it did. It was originally in bers. of the gang escaped the hands of Detective Sergeant in the excitement, Douglas, P. C. Campbell and a is more the role than the ex-throws out into space by wireless When a ship is in distress she squad of Chinese detectives from ception in these cases that when her ery for aid: S.0.S.! S.0.S.! West Hongkew Police Station part of a gang has been captured Help! Help! who as the affria was to take the arrest of the others is place in Chinese territory-were matter of course, joined by several members of the

ative police.

RECEIVED A SURPRISE. Information was in the hands of the raiding party that the nising compradche was being kept in the house in question and here Detective Douglas led his men in the rescue: He did not, however, anticipate the hot ception which awaited him.

Entering the house the rescue party were met by a hail of bul lebs which sent them into cover

but It

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When your health is in distress The compradore was foundkewise calls for help by signalling to none the worse for his adventure these messages take the form of your brain through the nervea, and and he has to thank the two symptoms of discomfort; you cannot. Settlement detectives for his re- sloop, your appetite fails, you feel storation to liberty safe and nervous, despondent, lark vitality and sound for had they nos taken spirit, or you have neuralgio, indiges: their

tion, rheumatism or other pains. lives in their hands. by

the rushing into

If your il-Health is due to watery house vitiated blood or disordered norves you

un-

the

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alt once. The house was im Court one male and two female mediately surrounded and a fire Chinese appeared before the of deadly proportions was direct-American Assessor, Mr. Hami ed at the hidden bandits who con-ton) and Magistrate Loh in con-williama' pink pills for pale people have tinued to pour lead at the police nection with the above sensational in frantic fashion, using up hun dreds of pounds of ammunition without, fortunately, much effect. The police returned the fire, but soon realised that they were

events. They were Wong Ching- shang (30) the male member, Lee Zung-sz (28) and Woo True- sz. (25) who were charged by the West Hongkew Police Station.

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