On October 23, reports the " Man-churm Dsily News," a band of over 170 bepdite Inid siege to timber yard owned by M, Skedelsky, the wealthy timber dealer, and located near Limo lying 103 miles east of Harbin, They threatened to destroy the whole stocks by fire unless sll the money and portable valuables available were produced inside six hours, Over twenty men the Rassian Railway Guard appeared un the scene and opened a fasilade apon the outlaws who largely ontoumbered reitiog fire to the plant, were ransack-Idiers and repulsed them and then
the place, whea, in response to the rin given, a reinforcement for the gnard arrived and succeeded after a desperate fight in patting the bandits The property loss slone suffered by the Rassian dealer is pat at about Rls. 600,000.
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