Manchuria Tientsin, Dee. 8. was Hsinmin and Liuhokow.
Several shots were fired og a jgnal that the train should stop, One of these grazed the head of the engine-driver and presumably it convinced him of, the advisability, of obeying the order.
As soon as the train had come to a standstill the bandits entered the first and second class cars and began a systematic robbery of the Seongers, As far as is knows, however, mo passengers were taken captive for purposes of ransom and of anything in the nature of person-1 violence reported. The bandi Manted the booty and were propa ed. to. take it quietly so long as Mr, W. H. Steel, the 'Traffic Maniger' of the Poking-Mukde Railway. who wa returning by this train to Tienta three months work in Mulden money and his. winter coat, The section of the line between Hsinmin and Liuhokow, where the hold-up took. place, is not" guarded either by Chinese: troops or by the railway guards, A Japanese 9 moured train, howerer, patrols section of the line twice daily, but lets "understood the igelaim "any. responsibil safety of the enter, the police and several doctors appeared on the scene, The entire building was complete: ly destroyed and fourteen Chinese ere. killed.
"The proprietor informed the authorities that usually at that four in the morning, there were at Toast twenty people' working there bat yesterday seven were late. and thus' escaped from certain death. sion' all the. bodies "were recovered Twenty minutes after the explor
he rains and those. who were alive were sent to the Hospital to receive treatment, The, police detained the proprie-for because they think thab hho had more powder in the factory than was allowed by law.
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