Another heroic raid by the 8.
Police on a. dwelling-house known to be infested with armed robbers has to be recorded, resulting in the death of the only two robbers left in the house. Last Friday. night, armed. robbers entered 'a house situated at 616. Taku Road They gained admittance jon a pretext and after' entering, herded the occupants, who in cluded five small children, into one oom and proceeded to ransack the house, forcing the people at the point of the pistol to disclose the wnerebouts of valuables.
An amah, who saw the entrance of the robbers through the. front door, slipped out of the back door, unseen by the unwelcome invaders, and quietly informed a Chinese Police constable on point duty in the vicinity. The latter, meeting a comrade en route, instruct= fed him to telephone' to Sinza Police Station and, proceeding to the house, Kept "guard and wisely refrained from raising "an are, but waited for the assistance he knew soon must come.
Assistance promptly came in the person of P.'S. Miller and P. C. Read, who arrived on a motor cycle Miller lost no time, and, smashing in the front. door of the house, gained admittance. Reaching the!
Kitchen, he was confronted with an fermed man who levelled his weapon, but before the robber could shoot, the plucky police-sergeant shot hint dead. P. € Read" reached the Staircase and there met another farmed man. Read likewise did not waste time, bat shot this man, who: rolled down the stairs dead.
'As' well can be imagined, the nmiatds, were terror-stricken, being forked "ina room and - Nearing the shots, confusion reigté. The! police officers cautiously searched,
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