ATTACKED BY CHINESE
BRITISH VICE-CONSUL’S PARTY narrow escape from death SHANGHAI, June 10. A party of Europeans, including the British vice-consul, Mr. N. PI. Steptoe, narrowly escaped death at the hands ot the retreating Northern troops while they were motoring from Tientsin to Peking. As the car approached the troops opened fire, hitting the car several times, and only the presence of mind o£ one of the motorists saved them from annihilation. The party consisted of Mr. Steptoe, Captain J. P. Ratay, an American military attache, Mr. Kendall, an American resident of Peking, and a German pastor, Herr Zeigler. When the troops opened fire the party took refuge in a ditch. The soldiers advanced, firing heavily, and the situation was desperate, when Captain Ratay, with a handkerchief tied to a stick, climbed out of the d tch and waved to the onrushing troops. After a narrow escape from the bullets he eventually persuaded the soldiers to permit the car to proceed. The Chinese explanation is that, a short time before, a car laden with Japanese had dashed through them, and this had so incensed the troops that they resolved to fire at the next one. ,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 383, 18 June 1928, Page 13
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