The Archive · 1937

Near Harbin Fails

Harbin, May 29, What is believed to' have been an attempt to wreck a crowded Passenger train due from San-ko shu, was made at 10 o'clock last hight when a charge of dynamite was exploded on the eastern section of the North Manchuria Railway five miles east of Harbin, near the junction of the railway with the Harbin-Lata line.

Several arrests have been provides $1,200 a year for burial fees in the oily but this amount has teen greatly exceeded this year because of the famine victims starving fo death on the streels, Two cre-motories were begun in March and are scheduled to be finished fu June.

'The other mew idea is more constructive. All farmers in Nanchungfallen were forbidden by their magistrate from giving festival parties for New Year, spring and dragon boat holidays. Instead' they have been asked {o remit the cost of the party to the district government where it Is used for famine relief.

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