Anti-Reds Bravely Holding Out:
Demand for $500,000
Canton (Despatched from Hongkong), Oct. 22, The West River town of Kautong, at which the Hongkong-Kongmoon, boats regularly call for silk, was attacked by the Kuomintang's Red Army on October 16 for giving ald to anti-Red forces. From the reports it appears that the villagers are holding their own, having. inflicted 300 casualties on the Red forces to 100 suffered by themselves, Some 40 houses have deen destroyed by the Reds, the damage being estimated at '$500,000.
'The defence of the town is being undertaken by the Merchants' Vol-unter Defence Force supported by the villagers. They are reported to have disarmed nearly 600 Reds, and reinforcements are being despatched inst them with all by ter's Pacific Service, Bandit Raid on Canton Seminary Hongkong, Oct. 26, Information from Canton is to the effect that on the night of October 21 bandits raided the Campus Union Middle School at Fatei, Canton, and carried away 50 students and four Chinese members of the staff, The bandits first of all disarmed all police in the neighbourhood. ter's Pacific Service,
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