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home and foreign items railway collision in BULGARIA. HUNDREDS KILLED AND INJURED. ToFJA, July 24. A terrible railway accident occurred between Sofia and Varna. Two passenger trains collided, and 103 persons were killed and 200 injured.
STREET HOLD-UP IN TORONTO.
OTTAWA, July 24
In a sensational street hold-up in Toronto six bandits engaged in a pistol fight and wounded three bank messengers. The robbers then escaped with a bag containing over 50,000 dollars. The messengers, who were returning from the clearing-house, put up a desperate struggle, and save other bags containing a large amount iof money, the exact sum not- being divulged.
CHINESE BANDITS AGAIN. PEKING, July 24. Chinese bandits near Chiuho. in the Yunnan province, captured D’Arcy Wetlierby, a British mining engineer. Steamers arriving at Icliang at the head of the steamer navigation, on the Yangtse River report that American and British steamers, under the escort of the American gunboat Monocacy, were subjected to heavy fire near Chung-King. The gunboat returned the fire, inflicting heavy damage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 9877, 26 July 1923, Page 5
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