CAPTUER BY BANDITS
AUCKLANDERS' ESCAPE
(By Telegraph—Press association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
"If avc had taken the train which left, twelve hours after our train we might not be here to tell the tale," said Mr. A. H. Johnstone,, K.C., who with Mr. F. L. G. West, another Auckland solicitor, returned this morning by the Marama after a holiday in the Far East. Mr. Johnstone was referring to a trip from Harbin to Hsinking, capital of Manchukuo.
Bandits attacked the later train, shooting eighteen Japanese, while tho remaining passengers, including four Europeans clothed in their pyjamas, were dragged across the snow to a river, each with a rope round his neck. "That would have been our fate," Mr. Johnstone said.
While in the East they had to change their money sixteen times, each time costing 10 per cent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 9
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