Nearly every member of the gang was armed with some sort of impleent or other and these were freely wed, Greatly outnumbered, the three Russians could do. little in defence and before the scute was over one of their number lay dead.
As the crime took place in Japat lose-controlled territory, there little that the Settlement police could except to'send for the ambulance tw remove the two injured men to hospital. Owing to complications, the Russians were not taken to has: pital before 11 o'clock, but fortunately their injuries were not of "serious Although two torchlights and two ppulrs of shoes were reported to have een stolen, the theory that robbery was the motive was generally scout ed as the size of the gang was unusually large for an ordinary armed erie. The pack of "toughs" made good their getaway and up to late last night there was no report of any arrests, At the time of the affray, two of ]the watchmen were in uniform—both fof these were Injured. The man who was killed was dressed in civilian clothes. AI) of them were in the Jemploy of the China Car and Foundry Company, Lid., which has its head office on Yuen Ming Yuen Road.
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