The Archive · 1939

we Killed, Six Wounded

Probationary Sergeant W. L. Kinloch Shot in Back by Ta Tao Party in Municipal Road

Shanghai, Aug. 20.

WO "Ta Tao" policemen were killed, two more were seriously wounded, and at least others suffered slight wounds, when members of an armed Ta Tao" patrol, operating in a Municipal road. and well with the limits of the International Settlement, clashed with Probati onery Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the Shanghai Municipal Police i in Jessfield Road, near Connaught Road, at 6.20 p.m, yesterday, Kinloch was fired upon from behind in cold blood and wounded in the back as he challenged a pa ity of four men in plain-clothes, all armed with mausers, who were patrolling Jessfield Road. In the return fire from Kinloch's Thompson sub-machine gun, the two Tao" police were killed and the five others wounded.

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