Word: train
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...picture of General Semenov in TIME for Aug. 23 recalled vividly an encounter with the General in March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank...
...spent an interesting but uncomfortable and. at times, hair-raising three weeks in our hegira. As we crossed Siberia we began to hear more about the elusive guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train...
Unexpectedly, our train was halted at a small town and surrounded by Russian troops with fixed bayonets. An officer boarded the train and ordered all American bank men to come with him. About a score of us were lined up in "column of twos" and marched into the village between files of soldiers. I must confess to an attack of cold sweat as we marched down the street not knowing our destination but fearing the worst...
Presently twelve Japanese planes appeared over Nantao, a native quarter of Shanghai, hurled five bombs on Shanghai's South Station. Scores of natives, waiting docilely for a train to Hangchow, were caught unawares, blown to bits. The attacking airmen, obviously ordered to destroy the station, showed marksmanship almost as bad as that of the Chinese who bombed Shanghai the week before. Most of the bombs fell several blocks away on citizens jampacked in the section of Nantao containing the Bird Market, Willow Pattern Teahouse, other tourist haunts. At least 400 people, including 15 children under two years, were killed...
...Union City, N. J., Charles Dempsey climbed onto a train. Just before the train reached Summit. N. J., Mr. Dempsey anxiously confided to the conductor that he could not remember whether he had turned off the electric iron in his apartment. As the train slowed down to pass through Summit, the conductor threw off a note to the stationmaster. The stationmaster telegraphed to the Union City Police Department which broadcast to a radio car. The radio police entered Mr. Dempsey's apartment, found that he had indeed turned off the iron...