We understand that definite at 8 are now being taken to dest with the situation Tt may be the pressure of the los; Very many. kiao, in. for-Hagen, have been burRed part.
"have including their house, while others} avg Jost all but their hom sticks of fuel and fodder havin deen burned, and animals and grain Many of the people have doen killed thers held for ransom, Li Lay-moh's band is the ume that operated in Liunanchow and neighbourhood last spring and they are still holding, ransom tyro wealthy tea merchants, named Yeo and Kong of Showehow, who had been in the Liunanchow district purchasing tea been sent up, we the bandits out of the west and causing them centrate around Yingehowfu. ix months ago, two sons amd" two daughters and a daughter-in-law, of Tso Hsia wh olives in Honan just over the provincial boundary" line from 3 nefy outstation, were for-elbly taken from their haute, and i was hear of of their ever being returned, Now, however, the necessary middle men have appeared, and four of the six young, people have been ransomed at $150 apiece. The other two are still held, pending a further Useless Defenders payment at the same rate.
During the last few days, ree {ugees have been anying: here' from Yingehowfu reporting that. the bandits are now closing upon them. 'There are very many soldiers in city, Yoh Wel-ku men, tw number 15,000, but they' have exercised no restraining {influence on the bandits. In fact, it is said that when they have been sent out against the bandits a Range proportion of them nave failed to return, having gone over to the outlaws, We ire informed on reliable authority that 50 of these soldiers, stationed at Taisho, hat een sent out about 10 days ago to dig trenches for the defence of the city, but that instead of doing sri, they killed their corporal, and to the bandits. Also we are me
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