The bandits now changed their! tactics, with the result that @ running fight ensued for some time in which everybody appeared to join and for long the raiding party were equally in danger from the bullets of friend and foe. The bandits were chased round corners into. neighbouring houses and over roofs. Finally two of them were shot down, mortally wounded, one of them having been hit, in the shoulder at close range with the bullet of a British Service rifle in the hands of plain-clothes Constable Campbell. A third man then ran over a roof.
After a desperate chase he finally appeared to have successfully eluded his pursuers. A woman's scream, however, in one of the houses led the police back en to his track. He had hidden behind some straw at the back of' the premises and used his revol¥ér°as soon as the been wounded twice in the leg.
The Compradore Rescued After a wary search of the houses, Mr. Sung "Nyoh-san, and his chauffeur, were found huddled tojacther in a small room. Their} gratitude to their captors knew no bounds. Neither man appeared to have been ill-treated, and it is thought that at the time of the raid some endeavour had been made by the bandits to come to terms,. The ransom demanded is reported to have been $1,000,000, which could! not be found,' although some influential Chinese had offered about half that sum, The neighbourhood of the affray] Presented the appearance of an armed camp late yesterday afternoon. The force who took part in the battle had been augmented by numerous soldiers and police, who kept back the crowds of Chinese that, later came to visit the spot.
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