Meanwhile however, panic retook the various gunmen who beat a hasty retreat into the alley towards Avenue Edward Vi, firing into the fair as they ran and waving their liliand-grenades of which one had already been thrown whilst another exploded in front of the "Shanghai Times building.
Many of the terrorists escaped into the French Concession where arms and ammunition were found on Various streets, whilst most of the men ran into Kiangse Road, where a third hand-grenade was thrown and where one Party at least boarded their car which was to take them back to the "badlands™ Dut which actually landed them in the hands of police search party operating on Hankow Road.
'Of the four motor cars occupied by the gangsters, two were found abandoned in the' French Concession, whilst the third came fo grief on Hankow Road where five police bullets put it out of commission.
By the modus operandi deployed in Saturday's coup, there seems to be mo doubt that the gangsters are those who attempted a similar coup at the editorial offices of "The Morning Leader", 130 Ningpo Road on June 16, when, it will be recalled, police watchmen were also disarmed whilst a number of shots were fired and a dud hand-grenade thrown, It seems furthermore established that the hand-grenades used by the gang on July 22 are of the same lot as the two found on Nanking Road on the morning of July 16, where they had probably been discarded by terrorists who decided at the last moment that it was too dangerous to throw them. Meanwhile, the large number of suspects have been carefully ques tioned and, whilst police officials in charge of the case refused to release any information yesterday concerning the shoot-ups, it was understood that only four suspects are still being detained, most of them with previous feriminal' records and all natives of Kompo, a district known for gunmen and other criminals,
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