Reports on bandit activities fall into two classes—one Is the, "Now-thata peace-and-order-have-been-restored," school, the other is more calculated to explain the need of Increased military expendure, In the Japenese press practically every day there Is a considerable crop of bandit new: although its a little charitable 10 cal mows. To the litle group of faynilies whose sons are included in the list of casualties, it is news of the gravest kind, but to readers out side of Manchoukuo, who do not happen to have a friend or relative in bandit hands, the subject Incks interest, From time to time however the investigating organs put out censuses of the bandits, For example the Kwantung Bureau ' has released a communique in which it details the number of bandits in each of the six districts, extending about 28 miles outside the S.NLR. Zone and under the Jurisdletion of the Bureau, Three of the bandit groups are given as 200 strong, and nine others are as com~ posed of more than Afty bandits each, One of the groups mentioned above 4s Inbolled Communists Bandits, "And We are constantly informed that the bandits on the eastern frontier, even nearly down to the mouth of the Yalu fare trained and supported by a cor~ {ain country, concerning whose evil intentions against this country, there a constant supply of articles in the al press. The interested authorlties must "therefore have felt a measure of relief, to read yesterday that the Soviet Consul-General at Harbin had given secret orders to all his nationals to leave the country,
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