CHINESE AND JAPANESE

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9

CHINESE AND JAPANESE

TROOP TRAIN INCIDENT

MISHAP NEAR TIENTSIN

United Truss Association —By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. PEKING, May 30. Acute tension has followed a mishap to a Japanese troop train last night three miles froin Tientsin, versions of which are in diieci variance. ' A Japanese statement declares that a bomb exploded under a troop train carrying reinforcements for the Japanese garrison at Tientsin. One wagon was destroyed and several horses wounded. The Chinese, on the contrary, assert that the Japanese themselves loosened t.he fishplates and prised up a length of rail. Chinese discovered this before the arrival of the troop train and repaired the damage. Chinese fear that the Japanese will seize on the incident as a pretext for direct action in North China. It is reported that Japanese have placed the Chinese officials under surveillance. An official Japanese statement says that any disturbance will destroy friendship between China and Japan. Japanese military authorities are devising measures for the performance of their duty. The Chinese claim that only a patrolman's vigilance saved the crowded Mukden express from disaster on the damaged track. The British United Press agency's Peking correspondent says that Japanese mounted machine-guns at Peking station, as three troop trains arrived, and ejected journalists from the platform.