One company of Nangtungehow water police passed Woosung on 'August 11 on the way to several small Tsungming Islands, where they" Will be engaged in rounding up scores of former members of the Pence Pre" servation Corps who were alleged to have mutinied and' murdered three Persons on August 4 and 9, According to the Chinese papers, the former. members of the Peace' Preservation. Corps wore dismissed recently and left destitute in these small islands, On the night of August 4," they entered a substation of the Corps, shot dead a man who refused to join them, and carried away a petty offer and held him on board a yacht. After that, they made a false report to the commander of a company that his men had mutinied. The commander was shot dead from behind before he could investigate the report, On August 5, these outlaws Kidnapped ten fishermen who were released upon payment of $2,000 by a rich farmer. They eventually left in. 4 boat after killing the detained petty officer. The Tsungming Magistrate Immediately asked the Nantungchow authorities for assistance, resulting In the despatch of one company of water police to the islands,
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