STREET BATTLE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 147, 19 December 1945, Page 7

STREET BATTLE

FOUGHT IN DUSSELDORE

POLICE & BOY GANGSTERS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. noon. LONDON, December 18.

British military police fought a pitched street battle with revolvers and Sten guns in Dusseldorf today when rounding up a gang of German youths who have been terrorising the district by raiding farms and staging hold-ups.

There were no casualties among1 the police, but several gangsters were wounded and - about 20 arrests were made. ~ >

The fighting started when 14 gangsters, firing pistols, came out of one of the gang's hide-outs after it had been cordoned off by a force of 350 military police and German civilian police. They ■ were' eventually overpowered and arrested.

The police then moved to another house-, where the ringleaders were thought to be. About half-a-dozen gangsters raced out of this house with smoking guns. One who broke through the police cordon was chased four miles across country by a military policeman. , '

During , the chase the gangster mounted the footplate of an engine of a passing train and continued firing from there until he was. wounded and arrested.

SPORTS BODIES BANNED

Rec. 9 a.m. BERLIN, December 18,

The Allied Control Council has ordered the dissolution of all sports organisations existing before the capitulation in Germany.

The newly-established sports organisations must apply for permits. The ban is designed to prevent the continuation of any organisation using sport as a cloak for military or semimilitary activities.