After being driven out of Vladivostok the Hanghatze are still lurking in the neighbourhood. Three days ago they caught a boy of twelve years old residing with his parents in a country house about twenty miles from here, carried him off and are demanding 5,000 roubles for his ransom. The boy himself was forced to write to his parents to say that if the ransom were not paid he would be killed. His parents, however, fare not wealthy enough to find the money, 80 police and soldiers are scouring the country in the hope of finding the boy.
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