PASSENGER RUNS AMOK.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4012, 11 August 1931, Page 6

PASSENGER RUNS AMOK.

TWO KILLED, 30 INJURED. WORST CASE TOR YEARS. TOKYO, June 7. When the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada docked at Yokohama yesterday, ambulances were waiting to lake to hospital 20 victims oi the worst ease of running amok reported in the Pacific for many years. The casualties numbered 32 altogether. Two Chinese were killed outright; Charles Campbell, i\ie ships plumber was. dangerously wounded, five Japanese and Chinese were seriously wounded., and 24 others less dangerously. Graeioanos Vilas, a lilipino sugar plantation labourer, when resting in the large steerage cabin on Friday morning, suddenly drew a knile and attacked bis fellow-passengers. Having disabled everybody in the cabin, including two Japanese women, he dashed along the alleyway towards (lie forecastle, stabbing right and left. A Chinese steward and a car penter were killed instantly. Campbell received five wounds, and the British storekeeper was also stabbed. In an incredibly short time the passage was strewn with dead and wounded. The officers immediately armed themselves and went in pursuit of the maniac, who had taken refuge in one of the shall tunnels. His frenzy had already passed, and lie surrendered quietly and was manacled and locked up. His weapon was an ordinary jack-knife with a 2gin. blade ground tc a razor edge Until the homicidal fit seized him, Vilas was quiet and well conducted.