Further details of the outrage on ithe Canton-Hankow Railway on the morning of October 17 (brief announcement of which was made in the "North-China Daily News"), Jwhen a train was held up, are now ailable.
According to information which has just been received by the Chinese press from Canton, a train left that city for Shiukuan at 8 a.m, on October 17 and, when it had reached Pakonghow station, it was boarded by three bandits disguised as pas sengers. At 1040 am, the train passed the Shekpai Station and was [just about to cross a bridge when the three bandits succeeded in climbing on to the locomotive and intimidating the firemen with pistols with the result that they were forced to bring the train to a stop.
As soon as the train came to a standstill, scores of bandits who parently had been waiting in the vicinity, suddenly made their appearance and, after boarding the train, conducted a systematic search lof all the cars, Among the passengers were several merchants who had in their possession a large sum of money and this was taken away by the bandits who also carried off a quantity of the freight. After Kidnapping four of the wealthier passengers, the bandits disappeared. The locomotive was able to proceed. Altogether about $00,000 in cash [was carried off by the gang.
When the train reached the next station, a report was made to the authorities and troops were sent to the scene but, up to the time of writing, they had not come into contact with the desperadoes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.