Marauders Reported Cornered in Hopei Province Chengchow, Feb. 1.
With the some 1,000 bandits tinder Liu Kwel-tang practically cornered in the southern tip of Hopet province and unable to penetrate into' western Shantung, "Governor Shang Chen. propared'to deal with their invasion of this provines, Hard pressed by Hopel troops under Genera!" Wan Fu-lin, the bandits gradually drifted southward until they reached points west of Shunteh in the narrow strip of Hopel between Honan and Shantung provinces, Military preparations in western Shantung to cheek. their advance foreed the bandits to descend upon Waan, in the northern tip of Honan roviice adjoining southern Hope Honan troops, according to reports, drove the bandits off from Wuan on January 20, the latter retreating back Hopei and occupying Yichengchen to the northeast of Shaho, Yesterday {he "bandits attempted" to invade Shaho.
'The Honan-Anhwoj Pacification Commissioner's Headquarters have dispatched Lieut-Generat Liu 'Tie ching. to Hsinhsiang to guara the bandits' re-entry into Honan, It necessity demands, it is learned, General Shang Chen, Governor of Honan, will personally direct. operations against the outlaws—Central News, fiw 'A QUIET
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