Commandant Murdered, Station and Village Sacked: Armed Attack on Train Peking, Aug. 16.
A foreign despatch from Harbin says that 1,500 troops guarding the Chinese Eastern Railway mutinied at an unnamed station, killing their commandant and sacking the station and village, after which they proceeded to another station, where they cut the telegraph line, subsequently retiring to the hills. As the troops do not possess money or food, further trouble is expected.
Bandit activities are reported from southern Chihli, where they are assembling from across the Shantung border.—Reuter.
Harbin, Aug. 16.
It is officially reported by direct wire from Pogranitchnaya that a passenger train which left Harbin on August 13 was attacked at dawn by a gang of 50 Russians, eight kilometres from Pogranitchnaya on the Chinese side.
The Japanese guard in the mail-car attempted to make a defence, but were fired on by machine-guns. One was killed and all wounded.
One passenger was seriously wounded.—Reuter.
Harbin, Aug. 16.
The Chinese garrison of 2,000 men at Buhedu station mutinied and killed the officers in command and started looting during the night. In the morning they withdrew to the mountains.
Troops from Harbin, Hailar and Tsitsihar have been despatched in pursuit.
Traffic has been temporarily suspended except in the case of military trains.
It is reported that the troops engaged the mutineers near Buhedu.—Reuter.
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