GUNMEN IN WARSAW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 7

GUNMEN IN WARSAW.

CONFLICT WITH POLICE. WARSAW, July 18. After an exciting Wild West chase in motor cars through the main streets of the city, the police captured three Communists. Two police and one Communist were killed and fourteen pedestrians and two other Communists were wounded—A. and N.Z. cable. LONDON, July 19. The Sunday Express’s Berlin correspondent states that the men captured in Warsaw were thieves. The fight opened when two plain clothes policemen approached a group of three thieves in one of the principal streets. The latter whipped out revolvers, fired point-blank and hit one of the policemen. The gunmen then dashed through the crowded streets, followed by policemen, foot and mounted. One of the gunmen turned and shot a policeman’s horse dead and the crowds rushed to shelter. Then one of the gunmen was brought down by a bullet in the head, but the other two sprang into ahorse cab, flinging the driver into the roadway. Later, they abandoned the cab and boarded a tramcar, jumped off anc ran into a doorway, where one collapsed through loss of blood. The other surrendered.

Scores of pedestrians were wounded by stray shots. Each of the gang" carried two revolvers and 200 rounds of ammunition. It is believed they belonged to a gang of desperadoes wlic intended holding up a bank later iE the dav.—A. and N.Z. cable.