“WED WEST” IN WARSAW

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 7

“WED WEST” IN WARSAW

DESPERADOES CHASED IN CITY SCORES OF PEDESTRIANS HIT TWO POLICEMEN KILLED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 19, 5.5 p.m.) WARSAW, July 17. 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 14 pedestrians and two other Communists were wounded. LONDON, July 19. (Received July 19, 11.6 p.m.) The "Sunday Express” correspondent in Berlin 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 thieves whipped out revolvers, fired point-blank, and hit one of the policemen. The gunmen then dashed through the crowded streets, followed by the policemen, on foot and mounted. One _of the gunmen turned and shot a police mall’s horse dead. The 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 the loss of blood; the oilier 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 who intended holding np a bank later in the day,