CHASE THROUGH WARSAW STREETS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 July 1925, Page 5

CHASE THROUGH WARSAW STREETS

THREE COMMUNISTS CAPTURED (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) WARSAW. July 17. After an exciting wild west cnase 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 wounded. CAPTURED MEN THIEVES LONDON. July 19. The Sunday Express Berlin correspondent states that the men captured in Warsaw were thieves. A 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 gun men then dashed through the crowded streets, followed by policemen oil foot and mounted. One of the gunmen turned and shot a policeman’s horse dead. Crowds rushed to shelter. Then one of the gunmen was brought down by a bullet in the head. The other two sprang into a horse cab, flinging the driver into the roadway. Later they abandoned the cab, boarded a tramcar, jumped off and ran into a doorway, where one collapsed through loss of blood and 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 that they belonged to a gang of desperadoes who intended holding up a bank later in the day.