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Show EXPLOITS OF NINEJERMANS Men Escape From Tsin-Tau and Try to Tie Up Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway. GET CHINESE PASSPORTS Germans Procure Camels and Supplies and Start Out to Blow Up Russian Railway. London, March 12, 2:20 p. ni. A small party of Germans In China is reported to have undertaken one of the most striking adventures of the war In the east A dispatch to Rue-tor's Rue-tor's Telegram company from Peking desi ribes the exploits of these Germans, Ger-mans, nine in number, who escaped Horn Tsin-Tau after its capture by the Japanese and traveled nearly 1000 miles overland in an effort to tie up Russia's trns-Siberian railway The dispatch says the party is headed by Captain Rabe Von Pappen helm, German military attar he at Peking The eight men with whom he set forth made their way out of Tsln-Tau Tsln-Tau and managed to procure Chinese passports, ostensibly for the purpose of going cn a hunting expedition in the interior They started away several sev-eral wo?ks ago and no word was heard froui them until recently. German Now in Manchuria. It. now appears that the Germans procured twenty camels and a large supply of explosives and pushed northward north-ward Into Manchuria They are now known to be between Buchatu and Tsitsihar, in Manchuria, along the 'ine of the Russian transcontinental railway. Their object, the Peking dispatch says. Is to put the Russian railway out of commission by blowing blow-ing up tunnels. Russian soldiers are pursuing the Germans. Japan has been receiving arms and ammunition to Russia over the trans-Siberian trans-Siberian railway and it might be assumed as-sumed that the object of the Germans Ger-mans was to cut off this source of supply. oo |