SABOTAGE ON RAILWAY
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED BY CHINA REDS WRECK A TRAIN (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. SHANGHAI, Sunday. Martial law is being enforced on the 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 HarbinManehuli portion, and having dynamited other sections. A large quantity of kerosene was found below a wooden bridge, and a locomotive storehouse was burned down. Foreign messages confirm the sabotage, the reports adding that a freight train was blown up a few miles west of Harbin. Fourteen cars were wrecked. Numerous other goods trains have been, derailed. The Chinese delegate in the SinoRussian negotiations is reported to have received orders to return to Manchuli, in the hope that the resumption of negotiations has not been entirely abandoned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 9
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