Quoting stories told by eye-witness travellers, a report appearing in the leading Chinese dailies in Shanghai stated yesterday that six or seven coaches of the train which was said to have been wrecked when it struck a land mine west of Wei Ting village near Soochow on Monday, were still seen lying near the track on Tuesday afternoon.
The travellers came to Shanghai from Chingkiang by train on Tuesday and when they passed the scene of mishap shortly after 3 p.m. repair work had not yet been completed, was stated. All train passengers were carefully searched by the Japanese. The passengers could see the wrecked coaches but they could not ascertain whether or not casualties had resulted from the explosion, which occurred on Monday evening at about 9 o'clock. It was a Nanking-bound express train.
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