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...seem to get a "kick" out of the letters of criticism and praise that are sent you by your readers, I'll add my little contribution. In your account of the Lincheng bandit outrage of May 6, 1923 (TIME, Mar. 2, 1925, Page 10) there were a few inaccuracies. It was the Tientsin-Pukow express and not the "Peking-Shanghai" express that was derailed. Not nearly 300 Chinese were carried off into captivity. Nearly 30 would be nearer the truth. And the 24 foreigners captured were not all taken to their impregnable lair. All of the women captives were released...
...Scott Anderson, 46, the U. S. citizen who, singlehanded, effected the release of all the foreign prisoners in the Lincheng bandit episode (TIME, May 19, 1923, et seq.), died in Peking from pneumonia...
...time of the Lincheng outrage, he had himself carried by coolies to the bandits' mountain lair, where he cajoled, threatened and bullied the bold, bad robbers into handing over every foreign prisoner in their power...
Almost two years have passed (TiME, May 12, 1923, et seq.) since a horde of Chinese bandits rushed down the steep, cloudswept sides of the mountain Pao-tzu-ku, derailed the Peking-Shanghai express near Lincheng, carried off 24 foreigners and nearly 300 Chinese into their impregnable lair, there to hold them for ransom while the representatives of the Occidental powers worried and fumed and sent stern reminders daily to the equally worried and more impotent Chinese Government...
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