News has come to hand in Harbin that bandits and insurgents ave mad in the Tower reaches of the river and hav attacked several smail_ settlements. In consequence of tais, further Man choukuo troops are being sent down to-Fuchin by river, theca march through the city, toa lay, crowls people standing on the' pavements To°hee them pass. 'The new troops fre well uniformed and show signs 'Of having received military educa; tion, ae, they marched in good order and were fgr superior to the class of soldiers that were seen in 1029, when Chang Hsueh-liang sent men' to meet the advancing Soviet troops.
Te is also reported to-day that's large number of Manchou-troops. are to be seen on the Eastern Tine of the Railway finally exterminate, the bandits in that district, as it is thought that they fare mote accustomed to Aghting in the hills. and valleys of North Manchuria than Japanese soldiers, cold weather is now setting in, and this must drive the bandits into the villages, a8 they will be unable to live out in che open hills, but Sith case they will probably reside fas peaceful citizens, and it will be Impossible to know, whether. th ly part of the agricultural Population or bandits, whenever They' get the opportunity to become so, of any" arms that. they may proges arg, ateays mart carefully fdden by them when they are not gut raiding.
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