Bandits have been operating on small scale in the south of the province, and the south-west, Mille tary have been out against, them, and in the Suikin district there was clash, in which the bandits were Drought to order, after a small operation. In the Hinkwoh district a couple of ex-soldiers raided a house, They pointed their rifles at the wife of the owner. She promptly fainted with fright, and the bullet liberated from the rifle passed over her head. 'The two men then Fansacked the house, and got off with several hundred' dollars" worth of silver, and notes. An ind the local was now. at hig raised a party with guns to chase the robbers. They were located in by the roadside, out loudly that he had discovered them, and prepared to get his gun in position; Dut he was promptly shot dead by the robbers, and stood bolt upright, for some time life had' departed. The robbers made off, and were not seen again.
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