Four suspected Chinese bandits were chased and fired upon by members Of the Settlement Police in the fields off Tunsin Road at about 1.30 o'clock yesterday morning, but escaped. The Police party, consisting of a foreign sergeant and three Chinese constables, were patrolling Tunsin Road, near the Ascot Riding School, when they heard a shot fired in a field, about 100 yards from the road.
The policemen started into the field and in the darkness glimpsed four men in the direction from which the shot had been heard. They ran after the suspects who took to their heels. /The policemen fired altogether seven shots in an effort to halt the suspects, but the later escaped.
It is not believed that anyone was wounded.
Later an investigation was made by detectives from the Bubbling Well Station.
The episode transpired in the vicinity of the place where on Monday night members of the SIN-P. Reserve Unit engaged a gang of armed robbers and fired 69 shots at them from sub-machine guns and pistols, in colonies to further the scheme abroad. response to a volley from the weapons seizure of a quantity of firearms and carried by the gang.
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