Peking, Jan. 5.
Private letters and official reports received here from various points in Kirin agree that about a week ago the last band of armed Koreans to leave the Chientao district crossed the Chinese Eastern Railway northwest of Ninguta and disappeared into undeveloped country. a This band, about 500 strong, set out some weeks ago from a point near the Korean frontier on the Fengtien-Kirin provincial boundary and made their way northward through country occupied by Japanese soldiery without an encounter. Their migration was first known tothe Chinese when they passed 70 li west of Ninguta. Tt was then too late to assemble a force to disarm them. This is the last of four bands withdrawn by the Korean leaders from points in the Chientao district and sent, in almost every case, through the Jananese lines to points of safety north of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
It is now definitely known that no more armed Korean parties remain in the districts between the Tumen river and the railway. All but this last party crossed the line more than a month ago, and altogether there have been no encounters between the Japanese soldiery and armed Koreans since the latter part of October.
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