Mission, interviewed the bandit leader on October 23, offering on behalf of the Military Governor pardon and a ransom if the captive ladies, Misses Darroch and Sharp, were released immediately, but refusing to consider bandits' enrolment into the Army. Mr. Joyce has telegraphed that the bandits absolutely refuse these terms and are holding out for enrolment.
The authorities are now ad-yanaing military operations but the country is mountainous and the west side of the bandits is still open.
Generail Chang Fu-lai is arranging to proceed to Paofeng in three days' time to take immediate charge of the operations there.—Reuter.
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