While the police were on the scene, a small eight-year old Chinese boy amo up to a police officer with a menacing-looking Mauser in his childish hand and handed it to him saying, "This was Groped by a man wilh a cut lip." The youngster was taken to Central station and he Inter Identilled the man with the cut lip, who had been arrested by {he police, This man. was dressed in foreign-style Palm Beach clothing.
"An official checic revealed that there a total of sixteen injured persons picked up by Fire Brigade ambulances from. the two shooting affrays. In addition (o this figure, the police Picked up a number "of "wounded people, which brings the total of casualties fo well acer twenty.
The driver of the hire ear which vas picked up in West Hongkew told the police that he had driven four men from the Edinburgh Road address a place in Chekiang Road. He then returned to the garage and picked up another fare for West Hongkew, and was returning from this trip when he was apprehended.
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