Mukden, Oct. 3.
About 100 pupils and three teachers of the First and Seventeenth Primary Schools at Takushanpienmen, Fengtien Province, who were kidnapped by armed bandits Tuesday morning, were rescued by Japanese and Manchoukuo troops to-day.
As result of hurried pursuit by the Makino detachment of the Kwantung Army and Manchoukuo soldiers, the kidnappers were overtaken-at a point only three Li east of Kaolienmen. Fighting followed, in which the bandits suffered severe losses and the school children and their teachers were rescued—United Press.
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