MARTIAL LAW
MUCH RAILWAY SABOTAGE
(United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 11.
Martial law is being enforced on the Chinese eastern railway, in consequence of the frequency of acts of sabotage by Soviet employees. Several attempts By Communists to wreck trains are reported, the wreckers having attempted to remove portions of the track of the Harbin-; Manchuli portion and dynamited other. sections. A large quantity of kerosene was found below a wooden bridge and the locomotive store house was burnt down.
Foreign messages confirm the. sabotage, reports adding that a freight train was blown up a .few miles west of Harbin. Fourteen cars .were wrecked. Numerous other goods trains have been derailed.,. The Chinese delegate in the Sino,Russian negotiations is reported i to Have received orders to return to 'Malicliuli in the hope that a resumptibii of negotiations lias not been entirely abandoned. , ' .
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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