Szechuen Gangster Leader in Fight with Troops Hankow, Mar. 17.
Li Hsieh-yn, the notorious Suechuen bandit Leader, and seven members of his band were killed in a battle with the members of the Peace Preservation Corps in south Szechuen, according to information roceived here to-day.
During the course of the battle, which lasted for a whole day, one officer and one soldier of the Peace Preservation Corps were mortally wounded.
The bandits had taken refuge in a house where they were attacked by soldiers and volunteers. The notor~ ious band held out for several hours. However, they were finally overcome when twenty soldiers succeeded in gaining the roof of their refuge, from where' they direeled machine-gun fire on the bandits, At the same time, six other soldiers set fire to the house, first saturating it with kerosene. The flames drove the bandits to their death but not before they had managed to wound two soldiers on the roof, in addition to the already mortally wounded.
A reward of $100 was distributed among the six men who had set fire to the house, while a sum of $200 was divided between the twelve men who managed to climb the rool,—Reuter.
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