FRENCH TRAIN BANDITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17844, 27 July 1921, Page 7

FRENCH TRAIN BANDITS.

OUTRAGE ON PARIS EXPRESS MASKED MEN ROB PASSENGERS PLUCKY OFFICER SHOT DEAD By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10 30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. July 25. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post states that robbery under arms reminescent of Wild West methods was carried out on the Paris-Marseilles express when it was travelling at 60 miles an hour between Beaune and Chagny. At about balf-past one in the morning four masked men, armed with revolvers, suddenly appeared in the last first-class carriage .jeeupied by 14 sleeping passengers, including some English travellers. Two of the bandits guarded the ends of the coach and two opened the berths. The passengers, when awakened, were surprised and helpless, and raised their hands. A French subaltern, realising what was occurring, attacked the foremost bandit who shot the officer dead and wounded his companion. The bandits, after thoroughly looting all the passengers, pulled the communication cord and left quietly when the train stopped. They escaped in the darkness to a motor-car which was awaiting near Chagny, and left no trace.