The Archive · 1930

BANDITS HOLD

TRAIN

Tokyo, Feb. 15.

According to a despatch received by the Railway Bureau in Tokyo, bandits yesterday attacked—a passenger train on the Tientu line, which runs' from the north-east! frontier of Korea to Tunghua.

It is stated that a number of Japanese travellers were wounded.

This evening's "Asahi" reports that two Koreans entered a first class carriage and started firing revolvers and molesting passengers. A policeman was seriously wounded and his wife was killed.

Local Japanese, it is sai have requested police protection of the trains in future in ender fo. pre vent the recurrence such incidents—Reuter.

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