BRAVE ENGLISHWOMAN
FIGHT TO SAVE CHILDREN
TRAGEDY AT HARBIN
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received. 14th October, 10 a.m.) - SHANGHAI, 13th'October. Mrs. -Woodroff, wife of the accountant of the British-American Tobacco Company stationed- at Harbin, was taking her children 'to school in a motor-car when she encountered three armed bandits in military uniform, who held up the car which was driven by a young Russian. The bandits attempted to kidnap the children, but Mrs". Woodroff fought tigerishly, aidacl by the chauffeur and another Russian. The mother was shot dead, and the two Russians r wounded.. The police were attracted -by the shooting and the bandits took .to their heels. One was shot dead, and another wounded and captured. ; -The third escaped. The children escaped to an adjacent Eussian home.
The outrage, in br,oad daylight, has distressed the foreign community.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19321014.2.73.1
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1932, Page 9
Word Count
139BRAVE ENGLISHWOMAN Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1932, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in