BRITISH PROTEST
HAPPENINGS IN MANCHURIA PEKING, Sept. 27. It is understood that the British Legation will protest against the reported firing on trains carrying refugees from Mukden, also the cutting of the branch railway linking the Peking-Mukden railway with Yenkow, the Chinese port on the Liaotung Gulf. DASTARDLY OUTRAGE BANDITS IN MANCHURIA SHANGHAI, Sept. 27. A most dastardly outrage is reported from Peking as the result of a bandit attack on a passenger train on the Peking-Mukden railway. A band.t gang removed the rails across a bridge, plunging the engine and five coaches into a creek 30 feet below. Following the derailment the bandits savagely attacked the passengers, slaughtering 30, including the train staff and British, Russian and Hindu passengers, and ruthlessly driving the other passengers into the country. The bandits systematically looted the train, decamping and leaving behind a terrible scene of carnage and destruction.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 7
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146BRITISH PROTEST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 7
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