Mukden, Sept. 24.
Reports have been in circulation in London and elsewhere to-day that Their wretched plight has been by morning—United Press. heped some word will come through alleviated, in some measure, by the parcels which have reached them through devious channels containing clothes, foodstuffs, comforting letters, books of a light nature and a pack of cards.
There are some hopes of the tall reeds in which the bandits are hidden being cut before long to provide fuel, but while the garrison commander of the Newchwang district has promised protection to
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