At about 1 a.m. on the Sth, between six or seven robbers armed ith iron bars and knives broke into the Ancestors' Temple of one Tser, at Yenkakingjao north-west of Yangtszepoo, tied up the watchman and ransacked the premises.
They could find nothing valuable and had to clear off with several thousand copper cents, bed quilts, several. chickens and a quantity of rice. Not content with this the same gang went further in to houses at the back of the Temple and having robbed to their hearts' content decamped with the Jan. 1
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