MAIL TRAIN RAIDED
Guard’s Plucky Defence INDIAN GANG ESCAPES Calcutta, January 23. A band of masked and armed young Indians attacked a train in Eastern Bengal and attempted to seize the mail bags. The guard seized one intruder, who struck him violently in the mouth, breaking his teeth. The intruder fired a revblver bullet but missed the mark. The passengers, hearing a revolver shot, pulled the communication cord, but by the time the train stopped the whole gang had jumped into the dense jungle and disappeared with the mail bags. >
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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90MAIL TRAIN RAIDED Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 9
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