Robber's Attempted Revenge on Captor of Five Desperadoes:
Shot that Missed"
A dramatic story of " fight between a member "of the Paoshan Police Force and an armed robber was published on Thursday in the Chinese press. It appears that on Tuesday afternoon a policeman named Tsang Tz-chiang, on patrol duty at the Pangpoo Motor Bus station, noticing the—suspicio\ movements of five men, marched them off to the nearest police-station. There they were question ed and it was found that they had taken part in an armed robbery in the district some days before. After this preliminary examination. the men were sent to the head station, The policeman returned to his beat and was there only a few minutes when a member of the robber gang fired at him twice with a pistol, both shots of which, howeve fortunately missed the plucky policeman, who return fire with his rifle. "The first shot caught the robber, killing him instantly,—He fell and the policeman, thinking that the man was only wounded, grappled with him, but, upon finding that he was dead, let' go. The body wax removed to the station, and the policeman was highly commended,
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