TDaSlANDIN $5,000,000 vot att Davi Haseante cities enjoyed a period of they stopped some few miles south comparative immunity until the local en liu and constructed six large! world was recently horrified by rea welders out of the harrows ports that appeared in the paper of farmers whioh they took in th of the devastation that had—been' villages. 'Then, when right closed: wrought in the city of Chowkiakow, fu, rixy made' a rush on Chenliv, and not so much on account of the] The The attack was not a complete surize and importance of the place as! Priso as there hid been a runs Vecause of the unusual extent of; the day before of large destruction to both life and property bandits in the vicinity of the city und the barbarous cruelty and) But there were few to defend it; the mndon with which it was carried attack of the robbers from six point wuts Organization of the Raid on the south and east was carried out with tremendous speed and th place was taken without resist The raid was organized, as is usual, within the bandit arca sur Taying and, as in tke case 's first rai porsornel a considerable percentage of soldiers, They consisted at the start of five!
"divisions," supposed to number! bout 1,000 men each (in this intance something Jess) and started In the sack that flowed the bers "exhibited all the cruelty that has charaeterizad latest raid as compared that ha ited it The of murder, with riy direct object gain, and'due ty mere impulsive: whim, sheer blood lust, or shat soa please, were many.
Wang' might huve escaped from "Robberland" tate in they day before; had, in fact, half of September. All five! preparations to do so, but siers were under the supremallast moment decided "to taky his command of Chang-Hsien, with chances with his people.
Tie Niu Sheng-Wu—as his.' second, decision cost him his life. ite was both having the title of general") found next day, dead, in (ove Ung). They started" south the city's outskirts. People crossed the railway just north} that the committed suicide. la Yencheng, and then, continued' eleventh hour fit of remorse at due west, along the punic of the Sha! having, at least, sent his family into!
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