American's Thrilling Adventure Peking, Sept. 6.
An interesting story from Tsitsihar speaks of the disturbed conditions at present prevailing in the Chinese Eastern Railway zone and the dangers of travel there. An Amerigan, Mr. A. J. Park, manager ofthe American-Oriental Game Ca. of Seattle, who left Shanghai for Tsitsihar in July and from there went west along the C.E.R.
search of live bustards for shipment to America, heard several stories of Hunghutze outrages in the course of his travels, while one band of 200 brigands raided a village within half a mile of the railway station at which he was lodge ing. On August 11, Mr. Park set off across'country hunting for bustards when, three miles from the railway, ho met eight Chinese horsemen who frustrated his efforts to evade them and replied to his warning to keep off with revolver-fire. Mr. Park took shelter in a haystack which was the only available cover and killed three horses and defeated the brigands' attempt to surround him. After a hot fight the brigands showed a white cloth as their flag of truce and on Mr. Park's ceasing fire five of them made off. Mr. Park, who retired immediately to the railway, could not ascertain the fate of the three who remained though the bodies of the horses were later discovered. Mr. Park reported that the Russian and Chinese inhabitants of the railway zone were completely terrorized by Hunghutze, against whom the present measures for protection are evidently inadequate.—Reuter.
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