On Monday morning at §.30.the French Central Police Station was! warned that a number of thieves were looting the house of a whclesale vegetable merchant at No. 160 Route de Zikawei and the reserve detachment was sent out under the orders of Constable Andre. Arriving at the house in question the police, nunibering 15 in all, surrounded and waited for the robbers to come out. These latter when they wished to make off secing the position they were in, opened a regular fusillade
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