A wild ride through the streets of the French Concession in a stolen hire-car ended in the arrest of two soldiers of the Royal. Inniskitling Fusiliers early on Monday morning, June 10, after the cur had been In: volved in three collisions and at least {wo persons had een Injured sllghtly. The soldiers themselves were not touched.
According to the French Municipal Police, who arrested the men after a spirited chase through many streets, they engaged a car atthe Joffre Garage, 738 Rue Lafayette, at 1 am., and told the Chinese chauffeur 10 drive in an easterly direction, As the vehicle halted at the intersection of Jue Massenet, the police reported, one the soldiers seized the chauffeur, Ku Teh-ying, from behind, while the other opened the door and. pulled him out, The soldiers then took por session of the ear and drove off, 'The chauffeur reported the incident to the nearest policeman and. soon police cars were rushing to Rue Lafayette to take up the chase. Along Route Stanislas Chevalier, Route Pere Robert, Route de Zikawei, Rue clu Capitaine' Rabier, Boulevard des Deux Republiques, "and other streets the police followed until they finally overtook the car at the inter section of Rue Amiral Bayle and Avenue Joffre and arrested the two soldiers, who were without their uniforms, these later being recovered in Koukiza Park.
Along the route which the car covered after the soldiers ook passes sion of it, the police found evidence three collisions. In Rue Eugene Bard the vehicle had overturned a rickshaw and in Rue Amiral Bayle, @uring the police chase, another rick. shaw had been upset, with injuries caused fo both pullers, "A third cident had occurred at the corner 0 Rue Palikao and Rue clu Consular, where the car had tured, The - (we soldiers, Who. were described by the French Police as be= ing intoxicated, were turned over to the British military authorities for disciplinary action,
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