The visiting gangsters threw the hand-grenade which however failed to explode, being apparently of doubtful vintage. Then they started firing in the air to frighten the enemy. The defending force also started firing, but not in the air, and the battle was on in earnest.
As the two factions were equally bad shots, they managed to avoid hitting one another and, while manceuvring across Jessfield Road (an S.M.C. thoroughfare), wounded two Chinese women and a boy not concerned in the feud.
The "Ta Sung" faction drove the attackers across Jessfield Road and into Ta Tao territory on the other side, still shooting. They were so much stronger than their adversaries that they drove them far into Zau Ka Doo village. The sound of gunfire continued for quite some time but the final outcome of the battle is known probably only to the gangs themselves and to the "Ta Tao" police.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.