WOMEN AMONG PRISONERS

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

WOMEN AMONG PRISONERS

HUSTLED BY BRUTAL GUARDS.

(REUTERS TELEGRAM.) (Received Bth May, noori.)

PEKIN, 7th May.

It is reported from Tientsin 1 that a, British subject was killed when the Chinese bandits captured the train. Altogether 26 foreigners were kidnapped. Members of a party that escaped state that the bandits started firing upon the train before it was derailed. The passengers were robbed of all their valuables.

Those who were kidnapped were mostly in their night attire, and included six women, who were hustled by brutal guards. They suffered severely, being compelled to walk miles over rough country in the night time. A few escaped by hiding in the long grass

(Received Bth May, 1 p.m.)

PEKIN, 7th May. Mesdames Allen and Pinger, wives of American army officers, who have arrived at Tientsin with three other refugees, declare that the bandits fired a fusilade of shots before the train was derailed, and afterwards smashed tho windows and dragged out the passengers in their night clothes, and compelled them to walk barefooted on the glasslittered ground. The passengers were then robbed of everything- valuable. The bandits threatened to shoot the male captives if troops . followed. ( A small body of soldiers is reported to have engaged the bandits.