The firing was so vigorous that it was heard half a while away by members of an East Surrey mes chanized patrol at the perimeter. This patrol and another lorry, carrying fully equipped soldiers and Bren guns, rushed to the scene and took Up position opposite the scene of ihe shooting. At the same time "Special Municipality" police started to come out of alleyways and concentrate about the place of the attack, where the Chinese woman was lying on the footpath in a pool of blood.
A large party of police came up from Bubbling Well Station and it was augmented by the "red marias" of the Reserve Unit, whose crews carrying Thompson sub-machine guns threw a cordon about the immediate vicinity, Further reinforcements arrived until there were well over 100 "Municipality" policemen and about fifty members of the East Surreys, Some of the "policemen' took lying position on the sides of the road with their
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