Numerous villages have been pi Teged during the night seasons and many other places have been threatened, Numerous robber bands with General Shum Hung-ying taking advantage of the trouble between Shum and Li, attacked several unprotected cities. Kiangko. locat between Kusiping and Wuchow was attacked and looted by one of these bands. The robbers fled to Yau mountains upon the approach of troops.
Former Governor (Military) Lin and a former Civil Governor General Mung, commanding several thou and soldiers and professing friend ship for the Li Wang force marched on to to capture the city:
The small force in the city were hard place but by closing the gates and filling the breaches in the wall with barbed wire they managed to put the city 3 state of defences.
Upon the arrival of reinforcements under General Wang the united party of defenders made a sally and drove the attacking force away, During the fighting " number of dullets passed through several of the foreign houses endangering the people living within, Looting took place during and after attack. Tens of thousand; of dollars were taken from stores outside the walls. Only one fore ign house was entered. A num. ber of men armed with automatic Mausers appeared at night. before the home of one of the Customs men and demanded an entrance. Upon cautioning the foreigners ta quiet they proceeded to loot the place. As far ai nown only the goods, belonging to refugee hinese, who had sought sater his home, were taken.
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