The assailant, who was apparently unaccompanied, tried to escape by running into Foochow Road and turning east. A Chinese witness who later disappeared tipped the police off and Sergeant Salisbury and Chinese constables started to chase the desperado. The man fired three shots at the tall foreign policeman at close range, missed him every time, and was in, turn fired on by bury and the Chinese constables while running. Altogether, the polic? fired some twenty rounds of pistol ammunition, one of Њe bullets striking the gunman in the ankle and bringing him down.
Sergeant Salisbury then arrested the man and seized the revolver—a 45 calibre Webley—from which he had fired altogether six bullets. The assassin was taken to the Police Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance, while the Kiating police chief and a wounded passer-by were both taken to the Lester Chinese Hospital. The condition of the ing official was considered critical last night. He is kept under armed guard at the hospital.
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