An armed robber was fatally wounded In the course of an exciting chase by police along Canton Road on November 20. Me died in the Polleo Hospital at 10 pin. A Chie nese police watchman and a hawker were wounded in the exchange of bullets, the watchman being eritie= ally injured in the abdomen.
'The shooting occurred at about 030 pin, after a robbery alarm had been, sounded at the Asia Hotel, 195 Avenue Edward VI, on th French Concession side' of that street.
Three men had entered the hotel and obtained $285 at pistol point, When an outery was made, they were chased, two of them escaping, while the third was followed across Avenue Edward VI into the Central Police District of the Settlement.
Here a Chinese constable opened fire, but the robber escaped along Honan and Canton. Roads into Louza District, where two other C.P.C's joined the chase and fired twelve shots at the robber. The man fell to the ground wounded, his own pistol stil) smoking from' the fire he had directed at his pursuers, The dying robber and the critically wounded watchman were taken from. the corer of Canton and Shangtung Roads in an ambulance to the Police Hospital. The robber expired after three and a half hours,
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