The Archive · 1937

Chinese Constable Wounded

Constable Tsing® Yuan-ching, tached to the Nantao Police Bureau, was critically wounded by a gunman shortly after 9 pin, on April 30 in Tse Hsia Road, Chinese City. The constable was sent to the Tien Chu Hospital, but the gunman made good his, escape.

Shorily before 9 pm,"& Chinese resident of the city, was held up at 'Tungkadoo and robbed of his over-cent and a wallet by three men after he had attended a' dinner party in the Settlement, After the victim had made a report fo the Nantao Police Bureau, a party of detectives met at Sen Nyi Loong a suspicious-looking man who, instead of submitting himself to a search as ordered by the detectives, produced a pistol and fred 'a-shot at the officers,

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