Shanghai, Sept. 28 Tear-gas was used by the Settiement Police early yesterday morning to rout robbery "suspects from a straw-hut after an exchange of shots between them and the police. The: incident occurred during a series of raids which resulted in the arrest of hhine Chinese—seven men and two women—and the seizure of two pis-
{ols with ammunition and one imation gun. One suspect was wound ed and was taken to the Police Hospital in an ambulance.
'The raids began shortly after midnight when a party of detectives, led by Det. Sub-Insp. W. G. Smith, left Louza 'Station. Tt was" during the detectives' visit to a straw-hut ¥ing Hwa Li, off Robison Road, that two of the' suspects sought to escape and opened fire on the police. Many shots were fired on both sides, and the Reserve Unit was summoned.
Members of this unit threw—gas bombs into the straw-hut and routed the barricaded bandits.
Raiding was carried on by the Louza Station detectives from 12.45 midnight until §.30 a.m., partly in the: Settlement and partly in the French Concession. Altogether seven men and two women were arrested. They were brought before the First, Special District Court later in the lay and ordered held.
In a search for pistols in the Pootoo Road district, Headquarters detectives under Det, Sub-Insp. G. Pryde recovered one imitation pistol from the bottom of a pond. They arrested three suspects, wounded man believed to be a robber was taken from the corner of Macao and Ferry Roads to hospital at 1145 a.m,
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