BANDITS INTERCEPTED
PRISONERS RELEASED SWIFT JAPANESE THRUST SEQUEL TO TRAIN OUTRAGE IBy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received Sept. 3, 10.5 p.m. SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. Moving with unexpected speed across the Manchurian plains in motor-trucks, a strong detachment of the Harbin garrison cut off the retreat of the bandits responsible for Thursday’s train outrage, and succeeded in releasing the two American captives, Lury and Johanson, also all the Japanese captives. All were unharmed. A furious engagement preceded the release, the bandits, numbering 150, finally abandoning their prisoners and scattering under heavy machine-gun fire. Bandits Wiped Out. A later message states that the Manchurian train bandits were pursued and exterminated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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