Four Western Gangsters Escape from "Ta Tao"
Station, Jessfield Four members of the desperate West Fah Hwa Village gang, who had been arrested with several others by the Settlement Police, were at large yesterday after their escape from a "Ta Tao" police station.
The Settlement Police at Bubbling Well Station were informed by the Japanese military police that the four dangerous bandits had broken out of the detention cell at."Ta Tao" police headquarters, 92 Jessfield Road, on Wednesday morning. Details of how they managed to escape, however, were lacking. The station whence they fled adjoins the western headquarters of the Japanese military police, 94 Jessfield Road, where also Chinese prisoners are being held.
The four are members of the gang which was "rounded up" as a result of a frontal attack on its hiding-place, a creekside hut some 200 yards west of Columbia Road, by the Police Reserve Unit and a large squad of Headquarters detectives on January 4. Many shots were fired by both sides before the gangsters surrendered. dropping their guns into the muddy creek.
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