Shanghai, July 9. report circulating Shanghat yesterday that the operated by the Japanese controlled Central China Railway Ca., was nearly wrecked at Wusih on Friday, was denied by a Japanese army spokesman yesterday in Shanghai.
"There is no truth in that report," he said, "the train arrived on time here." He added that it was probably another story from unreliable Chinese information. "The report docs not even state in which direction the train was going," he concluded.
According to the report, a bomb went off on the rails a few seconds before the express was due to pass, resulting in serious damage to the front part of the locomotive. Although no one was injured, trac was said to have been disrupted. almost daily it was understood, although no definite solution has as yet been found.
As will be recalled the Shanghai Municipal Police made strong repre senlations to the authorities concerned and requested that measures be taken whereby armed thugs would not be. permitted to come on to Settlement Roads from "Ta Tao" territory.
In connection with Sunday's shooting, which is the latest in a series of armed outrages in that di ict, the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.