Stripped of Clothes: Carriage Riddied with Bullets Mr. Henry W. Kinney, of the South Manchuria Railway, who was one of the victims of the bandit attack on the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin on September 11, arrived in Shanghai on Friday night and in an interview with the "North-China Sunday News" told a graphic story of the attack, which resulted in the derailment of the train and the death or wounding of a number of passengers.
Mr, Kinney and Mr. Penlington, London "Daily Telelgraph" correspondent in Tokyo, who was on the same train, were taken away by the bandits and stripped of their clothes, but both managed to escape, almost naked, and arrived in Harbin arrayed in sacking and rags they were: able to pick up after eluding the vigilance of their bandit captors.
Mr. Kinney said he left Changchun for Harbin on the train at 2.29 p.m. on September 11 and at Yao-men, about one-third of the distance to Harbin, they picked up some wounded Japanese soldiers who had been involved in a fight in that vicinity. The train proceeded towards Harbin and about 10.30 p.m. the bandits, about 70 in number, started their attack on the train.
"The bandits had apparently
building near the railway track," occupied the old Russian railway said Mr. Kinney. "They had torn up a rail just beyond this building, and the locomotive was derailed, while the baggage van and a special C.E.R. director's car, in which were one of the Chinese directors and his family, were almost, but not entirely, overturned. The third car, the 1st and 2nd class sleeper, in which were foreign and Japanese civilians and the wounded Japanese soldiers, and the rest of the train remained on the track. Simultaneously with the stopping of the train the bandts opened a tremendous fire which they kept up for about ten minutes. The few Japanese unwounded soldiers on the train put up a resistance which was ineffectual as the bandits were firing from behind the wall of the house which was, as usual, loopholed for musketry, In the total darkness the sity SARI EAS asad
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