After they had stripped the tow clean, they departed with loot to the value of about $500,000 Besides despoiling the town they hnd. killed yen men, wounded ton others, and carried' off four men for ransom, On leaving they met a launch from Shanghai to Ling-oe and robbed. The last heard. of the robbers that they stopped a few miles from Wutsun where they cooked and ate dinner, This wholesale looting of a 1 town has caused a good deal of atic in offclal quarters. As soon as news of the outrage was: known the mayor and the head of the Huchow police visited the ravaged town, 'They are: said to have conferred witt the magistrates of several neigh> bouring Asians, and joint plans for bandit' suppression have been: s06 on toot.
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