Harbin, Feb. 17.
Crime at the present moment is on the increase, fresh criminals apparently arriving from over the Siberian border, owing to the general upheaval in Russian territory. The latest victim of {note is Doctor Baron Butberg, the Police Surgeon, whose residence was visited at nightfall by six armed and masked burglers.
They entered the premises by the back, and after huddling together the Chinese servants, who all happened to be in the kitchen at the time, cut the telephone wires, called "hands up" to the doctor and his wife, a Chinese lady. It was the latter who was called upon to show where the money was kept. and after the burglars were handed ever some 20,000 Romanoff roubles, they appeared to be satisfied and left the place without taking with them many valuable curios that the Baron possesses. The criminals showed plenty of audacity, for the house in question is only a_stone's throw from the Police Station.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.