JAP BANDITS ROB 2000 RAIL PASSENGERS
One Hundred Youths Hold up Train
[N.Z.P.A. —Reuter —Copyright.] (Rec. 11.40) TOKIO, Jan. 24 The greatest police manhunt in the history of Japanese crime was continued yesterday for a bank murderer. At the same time, one hundred and fifty bandits held up a train, and at pistol point, they robbed passengers of hundreds of thousand of yen. The robbery occurred in Myagi prefecture, about one hundred miles north of Tokio. The bandits boardea the train at various points. When all were assembled, they proceeded to hold up the passengers. The police believe that the gang consists mostly of teen-age bandits, led by a twenty-eight-year-old man. The passengers said that there were about twenty young girls among the bandits.
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Grey River Argus, 30 January 1948, Page 3
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