Shanghai, Oct, 22.
Coincident with the renewed out break of hostilities in east Chekiang where fierce fighting has been going fon for more than a week, Chinese soldiers and guerillas are apparently trying 0 disrupt the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, as most of the ppleked men of the Japanese army the railway zone have been sent to the front, Chinese reports reveal.
On Sunday at about 1am. a freight train bound for Nanking struck 9 mine buried by Chinese forees in the vicinity of Changchow. overturning and. seriously damaging the locomotive and three coaches besides killing more than 10 Japanese railway guards, state the "Shun Pao" and other leading Chinese dailies in Shanghai. "As no passenger coach was attached to the train there were no passenger casualties, section of the railway track measuring about 10 feet in length was destroyed and repair work was much delayed that although Nanking-bound trains left the city later in the day, passengers were forced to alight at the Hwangling Railway Station and reached Chi Fu Yen on foot. The passengers were paniestrickon. It is recalled that this is the third railway incident which occurred along the same line since the beginning of this month. Tu the atest Ineklent, reports the "National Herald", more' than 40 villagers living near the scene of explosion were arrested by the angry Japanese troops.
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