Banditry on the eastern line has} received a very severe check, not one ingle case occurring lately, ut]
inst this bandits have made their appearance on the where they attacked nine motor trucks, killing ten of the men accompanying them and taking eleven captive. They also took everything fof value from the trucks, carrying their booty into the hills. Manchurian bandits seldom make raids in the severe frosty weather, from which it supposed that his band was after some special goods, probably ammunttion or arms of some kind. An expedition has been sent out after them ut it is dimeult to find them in the hilly country, which is also. thickly wooded. In the Harbin district there fare now no signs of bandits, though there are still young hooligans who attempt to rob ladies of their handbags at night.
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