BLOWN UP
TRAIN ON WAY TO NANKING FOR TREATY CEREMONY. SUPPOSED GUERILLA ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SHANGHAI, November 29. A train conveying a number of foreign correspondents and Chinese and Japanese officials to Nanking from Shanghai for tomorrow’s ceremony of the signature of the treaty between Japan an the Wang-Ching-Wei regime is reported to have been blown up just outside Soochow this morning. Five cars were derailed as a result of the explosion, which was apparently due to guerilla action. The casualties are reported to total 100, but it is not known whether they include foreigners. The entire Shanghai-Nanking train ■service has been disrupted. All today’s services to Nanking were suspended.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 6
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