Chinese Cook Mortally Wounded in Canton Road During the course of an engagement between the police and robbers on Tuesday about 4 o'clock on Canton Road, a Chinese pedestrian was fatally shot. He died at 9.30 pam. in the Lester Chinese Hospital. Accoriling: the account of those concerned a Chinese constable on duty at the intersection of Honan Road with Avenue Edward VII, was informed that two armed robbers had Just boarded a north-bound bus, He Rave chase, and at Canton Road, as he was' about to board—the vehicle, saw a man leap through the window on the off-side. Before chasing the man, he shouted to, another constable on duty there, that a second robber was on the bus.
The chase continued down Canton Road. The constable fired one shot and then renewed his efforts to overtake the man, finally bringing him down. The other constable caught sight of the second man, and overtook him without recourse to his pistol., When they had reassembled, they found the wounded man, who, it was ascertained later, is a cook' in a Chinese hospital on Avenue Edward VIL.~
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