The Sinza district, the scene of many past battles. between armed gangs and police, resounded to pistol fre gain early on December 16, when detectives and uniformed men swooped down on a gang of armed desperadoes, killing one and capturing" two. others alive. "A fourth member of the band escaped, but his identity was learned and be is being sought throughout the Shang-hal area. Al" the men were criminals with previous records and one is a bandit who had been released only recently under a Government amnesty, The police also arrested a young woman in whose room one of the gangsters hid during the pursuit, Besides a, pistol. a dagger, and several rounds of ammunition, an opium-smoking outfit was seized in. this room. A second pistol was found in the hand of the dead robber.
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