Munitionless Brigands Allowed to Escape to the Hills: The Only Possible Plan From Our Own Correspondent.
Haifeng, Ho., Oct. 13.
Mr, Grant-Jones is still here in connexion with the carrying off of the two ladies from Sihwa three weeks ago now. In my last report I told you that the robbers had escaped from the militia, and were hastening away to the west. About the 5th inst. they evidently crossed the Kin-Han railway and are now well into the mountain regions of the south west of the province where military operations will be quite useless. It was in this district that Lao Yang-ren held the Lung-Hai Railway engineers and the several missionaries from the Lutheran and C. -I. M. groups early in this year.
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