Tx connexion with the return of the Shantung Railway to China and the necessity to guard against sporadic attacks along its length, an estimate of the number of bandits in Shantung has just been made. It is believed that they number 24,600, and their distribution is given as follows: In the neighbourhood of Tsingtao, north and south of the railway, 2,500; on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, south of Tsinanfu some 3,200; another sphere to the east, 2,500. Three other Jarge spheres marked along the western boundary of the province with the heaviest concentration in the southwest corner, totalling 15,000.
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