The Archive · 1925

An Officer's Brutality

The Chinese stationmaster Weiting only a few days ayo was ordered tw do certain work by the soldiers, and the officer in charge pistol to enforce the order and pur it to the unfortunate stationmaster's head, Three forel officials who happened to be in the station at the time came to the acone hearing their subordinate's jory for help and were themselves threatened with rifles and pistols, and literally fought their way out for a dif ult, situation, finally turn-jing the tables on the officer and putting him under arrest. incident is only one of a number.

The military must be constrained to take a more reasonable attitude towards the railway.

At the pre-\as ing for ix hours with all windows wardly be imagined, and have to go dead slow.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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