TWENTY-EIGHT FOREIGN VISITORS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 7

TWENTY-EIGHT FOREIGN VISITORS

WORK OF CHINESE BANDITS

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(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLB ABSOCTJIION.)

(Received Bth May, 9 a.m.)

PEKIN, 7th May.

The latest available details concerning the bandit outrage state that 28 foreigners, including 13 Americans, together with 500 Chinese, are held as hostages. One Englishman, named Rothman, was killed either in the train wreck or by shots following the train \\«-eck. One thousand bandits took part, and pulled up the track, thus sending the express into a ditch. PEKIN, 6th May. Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, junior, is among those captured by the bandits. It ie be. lieved that more than forty foreigners, including several American newspaper correspondents, have been imprisoned.

A thousand bandits, supposed to be disbanded troops, derailed and attacked the express from Pukow to Tientsin at Lincheing, Shantung, and carried off 300 passengers, including a number of foreigners. The Government sent a special train to investigate, and also telegraphed to the provincial authorities to take, immediate' steps to suppress the bandits • and obtain the release of the captives, owing to the effect of the incident upon foreign relations.