An armed robber was fatally wounded in the course of an exciting chase by police along Canton Road yesterday evening. He died in the Police Hospital at 10 pr. A Chinese police watchman and a hawker were wounded in the exchange of bullets, the watchman being critically injured in the abdomen.
The shooting occurred at about 6.30 o'clock, after a robbery alarm had been, sounded at the Asia Hotel, 135 Avenue Edward VIL on the French Concession side' of that street.
Three men had entered the hotel and obtained $285 at pistol point. When an outery was made, they were chased, two of them escaping, while the third was followed across Avenue Edward VII into the Central Police District of the Settlement. Here a Chinese constable opened fire, but the robber escaped along Honan and Canton Roads into Louza District, where two other C.P.C.'s joined the chase and fired twelve shots at the robber. The man fell to the ground wounded, his own pistol still smoking from the fire he had directed at his pursuers, The dying robber and the critically wounded watchman were taken from the corner of Canton and Shangtung Roads in an ambulance to the Police Hospital. The robber expired after three and a half hours,
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