Vigorous Action: Troops Sent to Suppress Them Peking, May 19.
It is reported that General Chang Chung-chang, the Tupan of Shantung, is taking vigorous action against the "Black Spear Society' bandits, who have become inereasingly troublesome while the Shantung forces have been engaged in hostilities in Chili.
General Chang has sent General Chen Shih-lin with a mobile fore to suppress the bandits in the r2- gions of Poshan, Lincheng and Chichow.
Marshal Sun Chuan-fang: is ro-ported to be ce-operating in these anti-bandit operate 1 set border of Shantung to prevent them feom retreating - into Kiangsu—
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