More startling was an attempt to murder two Sikh constables of the S.MP. while they were on patrol on Jessfield Road on the forenoon of June 15, 1939. Several armed gangerers fired some twenty shots at the two policemen, who pursued them. The bandits escaped, and the Indians formately were not hit, though they had close calls.
Pistols in the murderous collection again were used to intimidate the staff of the University Press, 130 Ningpo Road, on the evening of June 17, 1939. A number of shots were fired, and a hand-grenade of the "potato-masher" type was placed outside the front door. The hand-grenade did not explode and was removed and rendered harmless, The scene now shifts back to the "badlands." On June 20 some bandits tried to rob 426 and 438 Robison Road under cover of darkness, The occupants of the houses gave an alarm and the bad men fired four shots as they retreated without plunder.
At the end of Julysan SMP. search-party ran into an armed gang at Stone Bridge and Sinza Roads in broad daylight. There was gri immediate exchange of fire and two members of the band were shot dead while a third was wounded.
When gangsters entered a cotton mill in Lane 255, Singapore Road, they were: successful in robbing the office. Before they left, however, one of their number fired a shot, probably to show how fierce they were.
The same gang had been at the mill two days previously, when they had demanded, $500 saying they would "call again." To show that they really meant business, they had fired one shot.
The dark record of the group of pistols includes the murder of one Chang Yue-tsung in August, 1939, while he was walking in South Zau Ka Zah village, in the turbulent west.
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