SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1925, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association

POLICE CHASE COMMUNISTS. 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 Commlinist were killed in the affray. Fourteen pedestrians and two other Communists were wounded. 'CME FIGHT DESCRIBED, (jteccivcd this day at 8 n.m.) LONDON, July in. The ‘Sunday Express” Heflin correspondent states 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 latter whipped out revolvers, fired point blank and flit one policeman. The gun men then dashed through .the crowded streets, followed by policemen on foot and mounted. One one of the gunmen was brought down policeman’s horse dead. Crowds dashed to shelter. I hen one oftlic gunmen was brought down by a bullet in the head. The other two sprang into a horse cab. Hinging the driver into the roadway. .Later they abandoned the cab and boarded a Lramciir and jumped oil mid ran into a doorway where one collapsed 'through loss ol; blood. Ihe other surrendered.

Scores of pedestrians were wounded by 'stray shots.

Each of the gang carried two revolvers and two hundred rounds of ammunition. It is believed they l>elonged to a gang of desperadoes who intended holding up a bank later in the day.