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Show "CHINESE BANDITS HOLDUP Tfil gNO SEIZES SH VNC.MAI PtMN EVTRESS TRMN, TAKING CAPTI E 150 Number of American flellovnl Held F$r Rncwne. Troop Reported To Be PuruJig Brljjnds; British Subject Killed lYkln. Uoports trickling In bora Monday from tlie Shantun border at 'l.luchontf. whore curly Sunday l.iVO tAtulita solied the Shanghai I'oklu . press train ,,ltf Tientsin 1'ukow railway and took captive l.V of Its passengers, indicate that one. foreign. (r rrltlsh subject named liothnmn. :s killed, mid that a number of Americans, probably nil men. still tooJ In peril. t tho mercy of the trends, this afternoon. Troops wore believed to be pursuing the bandit army. Anion the Americans reported hold -,re Robert Sorlpps. the newspaper publisher: Major ringer and two other officers of tho American army, nncied Koland and Alien, all throe In the Philippine service: four others, hes names were given as Heuly, lee. Solomon and Levy. The passengers Included thirty nine foreigner. Ten of them escaped or irere released. The outlaw hords. having derailed the forward part of the train by means of a broken track, fired a volley toward the coaches. Major ringer's two sons nlso wore taXen prisoner, but Mrs. Tinker escaped. es-caped. The captives Included J. 15. IVwell. editor of the Weekly Keviow et Shanghai. |