The Archive · 1939

Four Cars Overturned

"As we clambered down from the "we discovered that only the front portion of this car was resting on the rails. Behind us, four cars, including the baggage van, were lying overturned beside the track. There was terrible confusion everywhere, and Japanese soldiers and members of the train crew were searching for injured.

"Only one person had been hurt, however, we learned much to our surprise. It was a Japanese passenger who had suffered head injures. Keven he had escaped serious harm, and he was given treatment on the spot.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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