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Show RTTACIi IS MADE ON AMERICANS Rear-Admiral Train and Son Narrowjy Escape Death in China. , LONDON, Oct. 30. A dispatch to the Evening Standard from Shanghai says that Rear-Admiral Train, commander-in-chief of the American Asiatic squadron, squad-ron, and hia son. Lieut. Train, have been victims of a savage attack by Chinese Chi-nese outside of Nanking. The American officers were pheasant shooting, when the Admiral accidentally shot a Chinese woman, slightly Injuring her.. Hundreds of villagers thereupon surrounded sur-rounded the officers, took away their guns, knocked the Admiral down In the mud and held Lieut, Train as a hostage. hos-tage. Forty American marines, landed land-ed as a rescue party, were attacked by a mob of Chinamen, who tried to pitchfork pitch-fork the officers. ' -The marines were obliged to Are two times. The Chinese officials refused to restore the officers' guns and supported the villagers, - Nanking nas oeen active In the movement- for boycotting American goods, and is the center of activity on the part of the Japanese students. |