(Continued from page 7) opened fire but found that after the first shot, his pistol jammed. Meanwhile, C.D.C. 165 who was sitting on the right rear seat in the van was hit by one of the Mauser bullets of the gunmen and sagged to the floor, fatally injured with a shot in the head, beneath the nose.
Sub-Inspectors S. Nancarrow and F. Boorman, attached to Bubbling Well station, arrived on the scene from Robison: Road where they were on regular motor-cycle patrol. When they saw what was happening, they took cover behind a wooden telephone booth, at the corner of Jessfield and Robison Roads, and opened fire on two of the desperados who were attempting to escape along Jessfield Road and Robison Road respectively. One of the gunmen being bold enough to stand in the middle of the street, to aim at Sub-Inspector Boorman in apparent calmness and fortunately to miss his target. The two police officers fired only three shots in all, because of the thousands of people who were standing near the intersection at the time. They were furthermore handicapped by the fact that the two gunmen took- cover amidst these throngs of holidaymakers, whilst the officers did not want to endanger the lives of pedestrians unnecessarily. All the gunmen eventually managed to escape, "Ta Tao" Man Slain When the one-sided fight was over, the officers discovered that a "Ta Tao" policeman who had been riding a bicycle some six yards in front of the van, had also been shot and killed by the desperados, presumably by accident, as he was in the line of fire.
According to the police officers on the case, the aim of the two men who engaged Sub-Inspectors Boorman and Nancarrow, was definitely bad, because had it been better, there is no doubt that a large number of pedestrians standing on the side-walk, Emergency Conference On Idzumo Tokyo, Feb. 22.
The Japanese authorities in Shanghai have decided that, failing satisfaction from the Shanghai Municipal Council ón the recent terrorist wave, they will "take independent action maintaining peace and order in Shanghai," states a Japanese report from Shanghai.
This decision, the report states, was taken at an emergency conference of Japanese diplomatic, military and naval authorities held aboard the Idzumo, flagship of the Japanese China Seas Fleet—Reuter. immediately behind the telephone booth, would have been killed or at least injured, but with the exception of one woman, who received a slight bullet-wound in the neck, there were no further casualties. The number of gangsters taking part in this shoot-up Was given as five so that, provided that they were members of the gang responsible for the shooting on Singapore Road, the others must have escaped before the encounter with the police.
According to another version, the five gunmen lay in waiting for the police in the various shops on the East side of Robison Road for, according to a number of witnesses questioned later, some of them actually shot from within the shops, whilst a considerable quantity of Mauser ammunition was also discovered in a number of these shops, subsequently.
They are then reported to have fi along the alleyways into Singapore Road where they shot and killed the private detective.
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