STREET BATTLE
FOUGHT IN DUSSELDORF POLICE AND BOV GANGSTERS London, Dec. 18British military police fought a pitched street battle with revolvers and Sten guns in Dusseldorf to-day when rounding up a gang of German youths who have been terrorising the district by raiding farms and staging hold-ups. There were no caualties among the police, but several gangsters were wounded and 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 had been 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 the ringleaders 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 an engine of a passing train and continued firing from there until he was wounded and arrested.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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172STREET BATTLE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 5
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