Aliens Resort to Arms.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1915, Page 5

Aliens Resort to Arms.

SHOTS FIRED AT TRAIN* - —— - TURKS RUN AMOK. (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright] United Press Association. Sydney, January 1. A sensational affair has occurred at Hill. The Inspector-General of Police, in the afternoon, received the following report from Inspector Miller: “Two colored men, either Turks or Alghans, armed with rifles, fired at a picnic train laden with men, women and children en route for Silverton, just outside Broken Hill, this afternoon, killing and wounding several.” The police went in search of the offenders, who took refuge in rocks on the hill. They fired on the police, .wounding Constable Mills. r i be offenders were finally shot down, one being dead and the other wounded. Constable Mills and the wounded offender ’were taken to the hospital. {TRAIN CROWDED WITH ODDFEL--5 LOWS ON PICNIC PARTY. Unofficial reports state that a train crowded with members of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows was en route to the annual picnic, and when three miles from Broken Hill the passengers were startled hy the sound of .'shots from a cart flying a red flag with a star and orescent standing near the line, wherein were two turbaned men rapidly firing their rifles. As soon as the position was realised the train was pulled back into the safety zone. Passengers raced hack to the scene of the firing, but the attackers had fled to the refuge of a rocky hill in .the vicinity. The flag and cart were ’seized. When the news of the outrage reached the town a number of local infantry riflemen and the police, fully •armed, scoured the country, and discovering the fugitives, opened fire. 'After several volleys one of the Turks dropped dead, and the other was wounded and captured while seeking fresh cover. The third Turk put in an appearance, and was taken prisoner.

ATTEMPT AT LYNCHING. On arrival in the town an enraged crowd tried to lynch the prisoners. - An eye-witness who was aboard the train says that when he observed the touffs of smoke and the sounds of firing it first he thought that someone was practising firing, bht when the bullets |iit the train in all directions, and he JJjaw the Turkish flag flying, he knew •jt was something more serious. One an jumped from the train with a view informing the police, and the Turks

ffired at him, but be escaped. The at- j tac-kers renewed firing on the train as lit moved out of danger. So far as is fknown three persons were killed; William Shaw, sanitary foreman at Broken Ini'!; Miss McCowie, of South Australia ; and Millard, an employee of the HTniberumberka Company, all shot through the head. Eight were woundid. g I H KILLED : : 8 WOUNDED. 7 THE OUTCOME OF THE WAR. •* Details are meagre, owing to rain aiiterrupting telegrams. Later messages state that four were killed, the fourth being an elderly man named James Greig. Eight were wounded, including two girls and a boy of four, seriously. Millard was shot when riding alongside the train tracks. The second Turk succumbed to wounds. Twelve hundred were aboard the train. - In making their way from the scene of the attack to the rocks, the Turks knocked at a house door, and on the l|

inmate appearing a few words passed and then they shot the man through the stomach.

There are no details of the identity of the attackers or their reasons, but the officers believed it to be the outcome of the war with Turkey. There is great excitement in town.