ATTACKED BY PIRATES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17035, 8 May 1923, Page 9

ATTACKED BY PIRATES.

RAID ON TRAIN IN CHINA. B j Telegraph—PreH Association--Copyright Keuter’g Telegrams. PEKIN. May 5. A thousand bandits, supposed to disbanded troops, derailed and attacked an express train from Pukovr to Tientsin at Lincheng, Shantung. They carried off 300 passengers, including a number of foreigners. One foreigner is reported to haro been killed and two Chinese seriously wounded. Six foreigners and twentythree Chinese escaped. The Government sent a special train to investigate, and also wired to the provincial authority to take immediate steps to suppress the bandits, and obtain the release of the captives, owing to the effect of the incident on foreign relations. AMERICANS CAPTURED. PEKIN, May 6. Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister of Mrs John D. Rockefeller. junr. is among those captured by the bandits. It is believed that more than forty foreigners, including several American newspaper correspondents, are imprisoned. PEKIN. May 6. Bandits wrecked China’s finest express train near Shantung, imprisoning the passengers, among whom was Mr Robert Swift, publisher of a group of American newspapers. WASHINGTON, May 6. The State Pepartffient sfcill is with • out confirmation regarding details of the Shantung wreck, but promises to make strong representations to China as soon as information has been received.