Fight Pitched Battle With German Gangsters
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 18. British militai’y. police fought a pitched street battle with revolvers and Sten guns in Dusseldorf today when rounding up a gang of German youths who had been terrorising the district by raiding farms and staging hold-ups. There were no casualties among the police, but several gangsters were wounded. 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 was 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 ring-leaders 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 the engine of a passing train and continued firing from there until he was eventually wounded and arrested.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1945, Page 7
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