Mar. 18.
Reports coming into Hankow! state that Kikiawan, (Hupeh), on! the Peking-Hankow' Railway' has} deen entered and looted by bandits. Te'is thought that these men have no connection with the Intge bodies of, communists threatening the fallway but are merely a small band of focal bandits.
According to the Central News Agency, six military planes flew to the Exhlongfan distviet and bombed the bandits. This district is very near the town of Siackan on the railway.
As far as is known local trains from Hankow to places up the line have been suspended for the present.
The 11th Division, who were under orders for Kiangsi, have had a their orders countermanded and left Hankow yesterday to proceed up the railway as reinforcements to} the troops already guarding the railway zone, Private reports state that more troops stationed at Kwangehui have Hankow, Mar. 19.
'A large scale campaign to terminate the increasingly serious Bandit menace along the Peking to
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