False Rumour as to Capture of Foreigners and Chinese near Kueitehfu Peking, Oct. 16.
Reuter's Agency is requested by the Ministry of Communications to state that while it is true that an ccbstruction placed on the line near Kueitehfu, Honan, caused an engine te leave the rails, no bandits appeared after the mishap and no foreigners or Chinese were taken captivity.
An official denial is also given by! the Ministry of Communicat the report that a British official of the Peking-Mukden Railway was fired on and wounded by a Chinese officer on October 14.
The report suid that a strong protest would be lodged by the British Minister, but the British Legation at noon to-day had received no report of such an occurrence. The report appears to have been a complete fabrication—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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