"Mystery" Marauders Chungking, Mar. 14.
Bandits had a Brush with Government troops to-day in the Tachan district, near Wanhsien, the Yangtze port below Chungking, according to a Chinese despatch received here.
One lieutenant of the Peace Preservation Corps and two lieutenants of the troops were among those killed, while the District Governor was among those wounded.
The bandits are members of a well-known body of marauders whose elusiveness has earned them the name of "mystery bandits."
Fresh troops from the Pacification Commission as well as the 17th Division have been sent to the scene of operations to wipe out the band.
—Reuter.
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