Shanghai, Feb, 5.
Answering an alarm raised by one of the inmates of 1688. Yang Zung Kong, off Hart Road, a police party gaged two robbers, one of them med with a Mauser, pistol, ina running gun-battle at 680 pin. yesterday. 'The armed robber was shot by the police Just outside the victimized house and was taken to the Police Hospital, suffering from gunshot wound in' the chest, "Another man, suspected of having taken part in the robbery, was shot in the hand as he was mining away, He was talon to Paulun Hospital, The two robbers entered the house and intimidated the occupants, ste Ing money, clothes and valuables, One of the' occupants, however, man aged to escape unnoticed, and notifed the police. The latter arrived on the scene and challenged the robbers. When the latter refused to obey the order to stop, the policemen opened Bre, wounding the armed gangster. Another, thought to be an accomplice, was wounded In the band.
The policemen seized the armed robber's Mauser pistol and seven rounds of ammunition.
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