SABOTAGE
SOVIET EMPLOYEES ATTEMPT TO DESTROY LIE OUTRAGES ON CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. GOODS TRAIN BLOWN UP. NEGOTIATIONS /MAY BE RESUMED, (Received 9.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 11. Martial law is being enforced in tiro Chinese Eastern Railway in consequence of the frequency of acts of sabotage by Soviet employees Several attempts by Communists to wreck trains are reported the wreckers having attempted to remove portions of the track on the Harbin-Man-churia portion, and dynamited other sections.
A large quantity of kerosene was found below a wooden bridge and a locomotive storehouse wa s burnt down. . • i
Foreign messages confirm sabotage reports, adding that a freight train was blown up a few miles west of Harbin and fourteen cars were wrecked. Numerous other goods’ trains have been derailed. The Chinese delegate in the Sino-Russian negotiations is reported to have received orders to return to Manchuli in the hope that the resumption of negotiations has not been entirely abandoned. —Sun Cable,
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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161SABOTAGE Stratford Evening Post, Issue 82, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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