napping Suspect Ambushed by an armed thug for whom they were searching in a dwelling house in the French Concession, three Chinese detectives out of a party of five were wounded in a sharp shooting affair shortly after noon on October 24, one of the officers so severely wounded that he is not expected to live. Two of the wounded men are attached to the French Concession Police while the fother is a Chinese detective inspec-for from Hangchow. man together with a woman accompli succeeded in escaping during the! melee.
In an endeavour to locate two men from Shaohsing whom they. suspected of having participated in 'a recent kidnapping at Hangeh three detectives from the Bureau of Public Safety in that city called on the French police for assistance on October 24. With two. Chinese officers from the French police headquarters on Rue Stanislas Che. valier, the trio proceeded to a, tive dwelling at 1, Tentisong Alley, off Rue clu Petiot, where they had reason continued up to the first floor.
As the five officers paused on the landing, a woman suddenly opened 8 door leading into the hallway, On. [seeing the officers, she stepped back quickly out of sight while, at almost the same moment, a man lying on a bed in the room opened fire with Jan autoiatie pistol. Three members of the Party fell to the floor! wounded and, although the remai ing officers promptly returned the fire, the man and woman managed. to escape in a hail of bullets.
The wounded men were rushed to the Lester Chinese Hospital where was found that Detective Inspector Kiang Tsung-yung from Hat was ina serious condition, ha been shot through the neck, other two of the French lice, Detective Nan King-yung and tective Wong Ching-yn, also sustained head wounds, the former having' a bullet through his cheek and the latter losing: his right eye,
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