Shanghai, Jan. 5.
EMBERS of the Settlement Police who had worked tirelessly, day and night, to track down the gangs operating brazenly in the Western district, struck yesterday afternoon and arrested six men and three women at a hut about 200 yards from Columbia Road.
The arrests followed a lively exchange of shots in which, however, no-one was wounded.
The bandits threw two or three pistols into a creek, and by dusk the Police had recovered one of these. It was an automatic which had been stolen from the S.M.P. themselves.
One of the men arrested was 'a suspect who had been seriously wounded twice off Tunsin on the evening of Jan. 2, This man. with Dullet holes in his head and chest, was lying under guard in the Police Hospital last night, still in a serious condition.
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