Settlement Headquarters detectives, having made exhaustive inquiries learned early yesterday afternoon that the man who had been wounded in Mondays encounter off Tunsin Road was being nursed by his gangster centrades at a secret place in "Ta Tao" territory.
The hiding-place was in West Fah "Wah Village, some 200 yards west of Columbia Road and not far from where armed bandits on the evening of December 28 waylaid and robbed a number of prominent British and American residents, taking money and expensive jewellery.
With the assistance of members of the Japanese Military Police, a party composed of Headquarters Detectives and the Reserve Unit went to the place. Detective Inspector H. C. Glover and Detective Sub-Inspector G. J. B. Pryde were in charge of the Headquarters personnel while Supt. J. F. Lovell led the Reserve Unit. "he lair of the gang was a straw-hut, éifhcult of access, overhanging the Fah Wah Creek.
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