REAL LIFE IN MIKADO-LAND.
The North-Eastern railway men who uncoupled a saloon carriage and left a minister in a siding at Malton, instead of taking him to Whitby, have evidently caught inspiration from the railway men of Japan, who lately scored in this *way at the .expense of the president of the line (writes "St. James's Gazette"'). The Ganyeteu railway in Kiusbiu is not the most popular in Asia, and the relations between the company and its men are not of the friendliest Kind. But it. is almost incredible that there are workmen anywhere who dare revenge themselves by a plan aa daring as that with which tbe Ganyetsu men dealt with their president. The president had been to Wakamatsu to settle a labour dispute, and on the return journey, when the train was at the foot of a lonely mountain, the driver uncoupled the engine and disappeared in the darkness! Far from civilisation, in the midst of frost and snow, the president was a prisoner for'the night, and daylight came before another engine steamed up to take him away. The president's time was of _o account to the railway men.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11478, 10 January 1903, Page 7
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191REAL LIFE IN MIKADO-LAND. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11478, 10 January 1903, Page 7
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