Police Officer and Four Bystanders Hit in Gun Battle with Robbers Five persons, including a foreign police officer, were wounded as a result of a shooting affray between a police search party and a gang of armed robbers in the Western district yesterday evening; the robbers got away with $12 in small change, but it is understood that at least one suspect was being held in Chengtu Road Police Station last ight.
At a few minutes before 7 o'clock yesterday evening, five men two of them armed with pistols, entered a Chinese ette shop at 122 Taku Road. When they attempted to intimidate the occupants of the shop. however, the alarm was raised, attracting the attention of an armed police search party patrolling in the neighbourhood.
The two armed robbers opened fire as the police party approached, while their uparmed comrades took to their heels. The search party, which was headed by Foreign Sergeant L. Boiko, returned the fire when the shooting finally died down, it was discovered that four bystanders' had been hit by the flying bullets, while Foreign Sergeant Boiko, wounded in the leg, was a police casualty. One suspect had been arrested, and was still being held last night. The other robbers made off with $12 in small change.
Foreign Sergeant Boiko was removed to the Shanghai General Hospital by a Fire Brigade ambulance, A bullet had gone clean through the fleshy part of the left thigh, but he was reported to be resting comfortably late last night.
Three of the injured Chinese were taken to the Chinese Red Cross Hospital and two to the Lester Chinese Hospital Two were injured in the lumbar region, one in the righ: ankle and one in the right thi while a woman was injured in the chest. All were progressing favourably last night.
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