The Archive · 1937

Train Crash Victim Identified

Body of Arcady Vakhrusheft Still Not Recovered Tientsin, Aug. 4.

The Russian boy who was killed in the disaster which overtook an ox~ press train from Tangku to Tientsin on July 29 was Aready Vakhrusheft, sixteen years of age. Vakrushthe time, travelling with whic was forced to aban don his body.

'The rain, which carried several foreigners who had been on vacation at Peltatho, was derailed near Chun Mangeheng' a6 a result of alleged tampering with the track by Chinese troops. The foremost cars of the express, which contained" Japanese troops, were derailed, causing an unknown number of casualties.

'The Japanese, suspecting that Chinese troops miy have been in the vicinity, advised all the foreign passengers' to go to the Hsin Ho, where they "boarded a launch from' H.MS. Grimsby and completed their journey to. Tientsin in' the s, Hunan, Vakhrusheft's body, which his mother had reluctantly to leave behind, has not yet been recovered.—Reuter, Tue South-Western Aviation hina decided to operate a Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Yunnan alr line, The ecéssary pernilssion has. been granted. by the Kwangtung Provinclat Government.

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