Action as Gunmen Fail To Submit to Search In the biggest exchange of shots') [between the police and gangsters as yet to have occurred in the crime-infested western district of the International Settlement, 69 rounds were fired at a gang shortly after 10.10 o'clock on Sunday evening, when they engaged two police patrols opposite 107 Tunsin Road. No one was injured and the gangsters were able to make good their escape under cover of darkness.
Two police cars, travelling west to east on Tunsin Road at the time and which were about 200 feet away from each other, saw four armed men walking in the opposite direction. The officer in charge of the first car challenged them whereupon his party was made the target of a volley of pistol shots. The police officers in the car immediately alighted and took up the chase, assisted by their comrades who had witnessed the encounter from the other car.
The gangsters fled into a field near by through an alleyway and, not wishing his men to run unnecessary risks, the officer in charge did not take up the chase because, due to the absence of light, the danger of encountering an ambush further on was too great. Sawn-off shot-guns and Thompson sub-machine guns were used. by the police but as far as could be learned last night, no one was hit.
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