Harbin, Sept. 2. APANESE troops to-day rescued all the ten men kidnapped by bandit 0%, Thursday night following the wrecking of a Chinese Eastern alway express train, according to reports reaching Harbin this afternoon, Mr, Robert Lury, American citizen and Manchurian representative of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, Mr. E. F. Johanson, Danish subject, and manager of the Osaka office of the cinema company, and all eight of the Japanese captives were reported to be safe and unharmed.
Seven Japanese and six Manchurian passengers were killed and 22 others injured when the attack was made on the south-bound ress at a point about 26 miles south of here at 10.30 p.m. One of the Japanese guards had been seriously injured while three others were slightly so in the fighting that ensued. Five dead Japanese were identified among whom were Mr. T. Hatayama and Mr. K. K, Yoshida, educators of the Chime Prefect Prefectures, who were too badly in-Jured to be taken by the bandits and who died on the way to Harbin. Dr. Takeo satoh, professor of the Seoul University, who locked his compartment and shut off all light, wi the only Japanese to escape unscathed.
Moving with unexpected speed across the Manchurian plans in motor trucks, a strong detachment of the Harbin garrison cut-off the retreat of the bandits at Niuyingtze, on Danks of the Sungar! River, 170 kilometres south of this city.
Sixty hours after their capture by bandits who attacked a southbound North Manchuria railway train 26 milles south of Harbin on Thursday night, two Occidentals, five Japanese and two Manchurians were rescued shortly before noon to-day by a nding party from the Manchoukuo gunboats Kiangning and Kiangehing. Mr. Tokujl Kawabata, another Japanese captive, managed to escape his captors yesterday and.
Teached Huangohengrao, safely, The reseus of the nine others thee Another Train Wrecked Harbin, Sept. 1.
Bandits were again active on the Chinese Eastern Railway today, although their usual tactics attacking a train by derailing it were not used.
Employing fog signals, they stopped a west-bound freighter eighteen miles east of Ashiho, after which they turned their guns on the inmates, wounding both the Russian driver and the Chinese fireman.
Despite his wounds, however. the driver successfully proceeded east. towards Erhtientantze—
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Kiang provin Sungari, The spot is about 75 kilometers from Wuchia near where the attack {ook place—Rengo, out for assistance under the threat of death when Japanese and Manchoukuo members of landing parties from two Manchoukuo gunboats surrounded the bandits'. camp.
Hostages Reach Harbin Harbin, Sept. 3.
E, F, Jobanson, a member of the Osaka 'oMflce of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, motion picture distributors, a Danish subject, and Mr. Robert. Lury, a naturalized American and owner of Lury Shokai, with otices in. Tokyo, who were among the {teed captives arriving to-day, were met at the wharf by Mr. A. Jorgenon, acting Danish Consul, and. Mr. Waiter A. Adams, United States Consul-General. ung Tent to them by Man-AMI rescued were clad in white
choukuo sailors to put over the pyjamas which they were wearing when captured by the bandits.
Both Mr, Lury and Mr. Johanson fare unharmed but are visibly worn from their harrowing 67-hour periences with the bandits, who led them bare-footed over the Manchurian plains to a lair in the bull-rushes on an island in the marsh Jands fringing (he Sungari River, south of Harbin.
Both paid high tributes to Mr. Jotaro Murakami, a Japanese in the service of Manchoukuo, who cried
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