The alarm made every available detective and uniformed man hurry to the scene from Louza Station and few minutes later the Red Maria: of the Reserve Unit arrived and flung out heavily armed men who surrounded the entire block to Tientsin Road. Doors and grilles were closed and only persons who could prove they had no possible connection with the crime were permitted to leave. Only after a thorough search of the building had convinced the Police that the assassins had really escaped, were the doors Opened again.
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