WILD WEST IN WARSAW

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 20 July 1925, Page 9

WILD WEST IN WARSAW

EXCITING CHASE IN WARSAW

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 5.5 p.m.,_July 19. WARSAW, July 1/. After an exciting Wild West chase in motor ears, through the mam streets of the city, the police captured three communists. . Two police and one communist weie killed.

DESPERATE GANG SCATTERED

REVOLVER BATTLES IN THE STREETS.

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.5 p.m., July 19. LONDON, July 19. The Berlin correspondent of the “Sunday Express” states that the men car lured in Warsaw were thieves, lho fight opened when two plain clothes policemen approached a group of three thieves in one of the principal sticet.-. Tho latter whipped out revolvers and fired point hank. They hit one policeman The gunmen then dashed through the crowded streets, followed by policemen on foot and mounted. One of the gunmen turned and shot n. policeman s home dead The crowds rushed to "belter Then one of the gunmen was brought down bv a bullet in the, head. 'Dio other two sprang into a horse cab. flinging the driver into the roadway Later they abandoned the cab, boarded a trcmcav, jumped off, and ran into a. doorway, where one eollap-od tlnough loss of blood. The other w-rretiderod Scores of pedestrians were wounded bv stray shots. Each of the gang carried two revolvers and two hundred minds of ammunition. Tfc is behoved, that ihev belonged to a gang of desperadoes. who intended lioklmg up a bank later in the day.