Shanghai, July 30.
GROUP of about 400 Chinese guerillas were successful yesterday morning in blowing up part of the railway track between Changchow and Wusih, some 140 kilometres away from Shanghai, with the result that a mixed freight and passenger tr: came to grief in that the locomotive was derailed and eight freight cars seriously damaged, according to the Japanese military spokesman at yesterday's Japanese press conference.
The derailment occurred at about 7 a.m. and is puzzling the Japanese authorities inasmuch as that no important persons train whilst a bridge, some 300 metres from the scene of the explosion, was not damaged by the guerillas who, according to the spokesman, were evidently out to cause as much damage as possible.
Asked whether the railway was not being guarded, the spokesman replied in the affirmative, although he said that the track was not always. being watched and some of the bridges are not guarded all the time. He con-trined however that Japanese railway guards were on the train and said that no details had as yet been received regarding casualties.
The train, It was stated, was conveying farmers and" freight at the time of the mishap.
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