Train Transformed To Coffin on Wheels
GRIM CHINESE TRAGEDY
(United P.A. —By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. 10.35 a.m. SHANGHAI, Tuesday. AN extraordinary tragedy was discovered at the Tientsin railway station on the arrival of a troop train from Shantung.
The carriages were heaped with dead and dying soldiers, including White Russians, the former bodyguard of the Shantung Governor Chang Chung-Chang. They were attacked by a Chinese armoured-car corps en route, who were angry because their salaries were un-
; paid. Even the commander was not i spared. The drivers declared that they were unaware that the massacre was occur- ! ring. The train arrived virtually a coffin !on wheels. There was only a handful | of survivors, attackers and attacked I suffering equally.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 391, 27 June 1928, Page 11
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