News comes from the north of Hupeh of the defeat of a large to-day by the Chief Executive, Thirty-two persona were present in addition tothe Cabinet Ministers and Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese robber force by the local tin Minister—Reuter's, of Tsacyang and Suichow. The robbers consisted of a number of disbanded soldiers from the neigh-'Tae management of Internationbouring province of Honan, unde News Service desires to announce the leadership of one called Ma that it has no connexion of any Wen-chi. Crossing ver the border kind with International News between the two provinces, this band, Syndica of Tsingtao, China. This began threatening the region be-notice is made solely to obviate mis-ween Tsaoyang and Suichow.
The under star Local militia bands of how. The) understanding or error likely to arise from the similarity of names. towns got "together, and fought a battle against the robbers, Dk. T. Colburn, an American re-which more than 60 of the latter|sident of the Kowloon Hotel was were killed and some 200 found dead in his bed on October 9 of their captives ('meat-tickets,"tby his secretary. The doctor was lyas they are called) were set free. ing back peacefully and had The rest of the robbers escaped evidently passed away in his sleep. to a mountain in the A young man who fancied himself hood, called Chin Lung Shan (the 'a5 an artist bestowed a great deal Nine Dragon Mountain), where, it [of time and care on the production anid, they are surrounded by tha 2" Picture representing a cow gr militia, and will quite likely be wiped out.. For some time past, concerted measures by the military) Then the plagues of the grasshop- have, been taken ty the authorities ofthe two provinces to combat this robber pest on the border between Hepeh and Honan. utter looking it-over for a minute jor two handed it: back to his visitor saying, "The ship is not so. bad, but you've made the sea much too green."
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