Mr. Ricks's Experience on a Mo-for Trip from Tientsin to Peking The following is from the: manager of H. S. Honigaberg Ca,, Inc, Peking, Mr. Howard Ricks, who is well known all over China, and tells of his recent perience on the Peking-Tientsin Road.
"We really had a very narrow jexeape. We were bringing up two Buick 1926 seven passenger sedan-Kmousines from Tientsin last Sunday. About half way to Peking we unexpectedly ran into four bandits robbing one of the Peking-'Tientsin buses. 'They had all the passengers out and were taking their clothes and personal belongings away from them as fast as possible. One of them was armed 'a regular army rifle and the other three with pistols. All were dressed in ordinary farmers' clothes. Our arriving on the scene upset their plans a lot. The driver was ahead and just as soon as he sized up the situation he stepped on the gas. The fellow with the gun, who was on the ther side of the bus yelled for him to stop but he was not having any of it, and kept right ton going as fast as he could.
This: fellow took a pot shot at him as went by. Just as a bit of luck the driver was not killed. The bandit's aim was good enough. The bullet went into the right rear door, at an angle, but it hit the window lifter inside the door, which deflected it along the door toward the front of the car. It finally lodged right at the edge of the back of the front seat near the door catch.
(was, only about 25 yards behind the driver and tet the bus fired. Tried to run over the bandit. who did the shooting but was unlucky. Only managed to knock him over the bank, but this saved him irom taking a shot at me as by the time he had picked himself up I was up the road in a cloud of dust. His shot did not come any place near me. We found out later, from a car that passed this. bus after. the bandits had left, that they had; killed the bus driver.
"Then after we had passed this bandit outfit we ran into n heavy rain storm. Well you know what vain means on that road. Tt took us about seven hours to cover the last 35 miles. I don't know how many times we were struck in the mud. It was raining like the devil and we would have to get out in the mud half way to our knees and dig first one and then the other of the cars out. We finally managed to get up to the Octroi Gate at 5:30 that afternoon. It took us a little over 10 hours make the 85 miles from Tentsin, I have been over the rond great many times in the last five years but this was the prize trip
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