The Archive · 1927

SHOOTING: AFFRAY

IN: LOUZA — Robber: Killed: Chintee- Com!

stable: Expected: to: Diet~

Three: Others- Wounded!

'Three-Chinese constables: in: the} International: Settlement and' one 'Annamite: belonging: to: the Prench police-were spet; and: wounded; one} of' them: so: seriously; that: he is-ex-Pected!to.die; and. ap.ermed robber was' shot' dead; during. a. sunning] fight between a'gang: of armed rob bers and: police-in the Louza dist during. the early. moming: howrs: on Wednesday, Two more men, said to] bbe members of the same gang, are in the cells-at Louza: station, charged with complicity in the crime.

In another round-up of armed lyobbers in the Louza and Sinza disftriets at about the seme our nine men, enid to Lo members of another gang, were arrested and are await-jing trial before the Provisional Court.

The facts surrounding the cate in which the four Chinese were shot fare more or less obscure, as the police officials were not allowed to see the wounded men under the instructions of the doctors.

From what little is known, it is believed that the shooting affray started. along Avenue Edvard VIL. The gang, consisting of five or six men, started to drive off with a motor esr, which was parked in the middle of the roadway about 5 am. They were detected by an Annamiite who blew his whistle, attracting police in the Settlement. The gang scattered, running into the streets and cileyways leeding into the Settlement between Chekiang Road and Kiangse Reed,

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