Policemen Hit in Encounter with Armed Men Two police assistants were badly wounded on Sunday evening, a small boy was shot, and an armed robber Killed, as a result of a shooting affray, in the French Concession, when a search party came upon four armed robbers, and after being fired upon, returned fire. One of the detect assistants probably is fatally! wounded.
The French Concession, until recently has been fairly imjune from the armed robber scourge, has been visited of late by these. gangs, to such an extent that even native police houses have not been free from the marauders, In view of this the authorities have adopted the usual means of combat. ting them, and search parties have patrolled the roads during the early evening hours.
One of these parties on Sunday' evening, whilst performing their duties "on Rue Eugene Bard, noticed four men, As the searchers approached the suspected _persons the robbers drew their tols from their sleeves and opened fire. The police, almost immediately, returned fire.' One of the Jarmed men fell dead. In the ensuing nétee, in which about 20 shots were exchanged, two of the assistants were struck by bullets. A boy in the neighbourhood was also wounded, to what extent is unknown.
The injured were removed to the Lester Hospital. One was shot in the abdomen, the other in the thigh, T The remaining robbers made off through adjacent alleyways.
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