Fierce Battle with Bandit Stronghold: Two Ruffians Killed:
Six Captured: Kidnapped Boy Recovered With a toll of two. bandits killed and six others, including two females, arrested, the Settlement police, augmented by detectives from the French Concession, on Wednesday morning broke up one of the foremost armed kidnapping guns operating in Shanghai in a spectaculy raid that had, as Rts objective, the liberation of the young Chinese daringly kidnapped ten days ago in Avenue Foch, when Mr. H. C. W.
wards so gallantly tried to save The child was recovered yesterday morning unharmed and was handed over to his father, a official of the Customs ser-
The First Raid The raid took place in a Chinese dwelling house on the corner of Kiachbw Road and Avenue Road and was due to information by the French Police that the place was used as a rendezvous by the gang and that the child was hidden there, four o'clock in the morning French detectives, under the leade:- ship of Detective Sub-Inspector Bardy, raided another rendezvous of the gang at 261 Weihaiw but the principals were missing. The police, however, did confiscate a Mauser pistol and 79 rounds of Ammunition, Also they found the sole occupants to be one Sz Tal-zu and his wife and, suspecting them of knowing more' than they eared to tell, subjected the two severe cross questioning, out of Which came the mention of the house in Kiaochow Road.
The Wethaiwei Road dwelling was richly furnished and the police instantly knew they were not dealing with amateurs in the kind wits called from the Sinza Star and the Bubbling Well headquarters and strengthened by the Gordon Road Reserve Unit the party swiftly went forward to the second raid.
The Bend Forewarned Evidently word of their coming tad been relayed ahead, for on the police coming abreast of the hous, A watcher wan detected peeping From an upper window.
'The building was a, two-storey structure with upper' verandah and, prepared for eventualities, the police; immediately threw a cordon farajind. the block, to intercept any who, might attempt light.
The front door was forced at 6.15 am. and the firat to enter was Detective Sub-Inspector Bardy followed by Chinese detective. On reaching the: foot of a land were, preparing cautiously to ascend when @- man suddenly appeared 0° the landing above and fired five shots at them in rapid succession, They returned the fire hut the man disappeared. Later he was found to be one of the two killed.
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