Routed from their lair by gas bombs, two gunmen were seriously wounded and two kidnappers, include ing a woman, were arrested by a combined French and Settlement police raid in Yulin. Road, near Thorburn Road comer, shortly before 9 o'clock on Monday night, when Mrs, }Yu Wu-tseng-via, a Chinese Catholic who was kidnapped in the French JConcession a month ago while liber way to church, was freed.
With a cordon thrown around the Hnouse, 388 Yulin Road, the police, Jatter exchanging only 'a few shots, jealled out the Reserve Unit in Yulin Road Station. Three gas bombs tad to be thrown into. the back room just underneath the drying stage before the abductors were finally dislodged. [The care taken for the victim from firing into the return.
"The police action followed the receipt of a long distance telephone message from Soochow, where detectives of the French Police arrested two members of the kidnapping gang the evening. Under the personal command of M. Jobez, Ca-Director of the French Police, six inspectors and Aaficen detectives set out from Lukawe} Headquarters to the kidnappers' alr in Yulin Road, Posing as coolies and beggars, some of the detectives kept a sharp watch near the entrance of the baure faring the street, while the others went to Yulin Road Police Station For. assistance, with M. Lopez directing _opers tions, "the combined French and Settlement police broke into the house. With the exception of a wood: fen desk which was inthe" course jof construction, "the round floor was almost empty, While the officers were searching for switches, several shots were fired from above, flashes in the pitched darkness show-Ing clearly the direction whence the The shots were replied to, and it was believed that these yompelied the robbers to retreat into a small back room where the kidnapped. victim was being kept, When the ground floor was lit with electricity, Chinese Detective 47 attached to the French Police was found to have been shot the leg. One duller struck his steal vest in the region of the heart This took no effect.
Seeing that the ikldnappers were secure In the small room, and. for fear that shots fired into the room. might wound the kidnapped' victim, the "detectives left the house, An urgent c@ll was sent to the Reserve Unit and a party promptly arrived with gas bombs, From a top floor room in an ad~ Jacent house, an officer of the Yulin Road Station broke open the window of the kidnappers' lair with the ald of a pole, "A gas bomb was then thrown into the room, As fumes spread from the missile, the Kid~ apped victim climbed out of the window and jumped on to the wall which separates the two houses and rolled down to the yard, receiving slight injuries in the fall.
One of the kidnappers who tempted to follow sult was shot In the abdomen and fell back. A. second bomb was then thrown into" the room. Apparently on the alert, the kidnappers quickly picked up the missile" and threw it back at the police. It, however, missed the mark.
With the room already filled with the place. One of the gunmen then attempted to escape by climbing out Of the window, only to be shot down by the police. Before long. the other one in she room. surrendered, bers of the Reserve Unit also arrest-fed'a suspect near the house,
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