BANDITS’ BULLETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1926, Page 11

BANDITS’ BULLETS.

SYDNEY WOMAN’S ESCAPE

CHINA’S PERILS,

SYDNEY, June 10. After sufficient excitement for a life-time crammed into four years, Miss Jean Armstrong returned to Sydney by the Taiping to-day from tho East. Miss Armstrong was wellknown in Sydney as secretary of the committee of the Diggers’ Loan, the War Workers’ Memorial, .and the Home for Nurses of the Sydney Hospital. She said to-day how thankful she ■was that she had been able to leave Shanghai before May 30, for that was tho anniversary of her most startling experience. Britishers on that occasion were given 22 minutes to get out of Shanghai. There were posters everywhere demanding lhat foreigners be killed off. Miss Armstrong explained that May was “humiliation month” for the Chinese, and they celebrated it with uprisings. Bullets rained on the car in which she was returning from _ the races, and this was the first intimation the Europeans had of serious trouble. A Sikh policeman near the cab had his horse snot under him, and tho street quickly filled with excited Chinese. Although she was within a few hundred yards of the police station, she and her friends were fortunate in escaping from the mob into the French concession. Her home was almost in sight when the shooting began, but it was seven days before it was safe for her to go there. "~ “Heads of bandits are hung in cages at tho railway station,” said Miss Armstrong. “The municipal council conducts an arsenal, the official shooting ground, but an offender is often dealt with near the seat of the crime.”