Yesterday the body of young' Minaeff who was killed by bandit not far from Pogranichnaya Station last week was brought to Harbin, a very large crowd being at the station on the arrival of the train, He was @ young man of only twenty-five years of age and Wag a very promising engineer, son of one of the oldest members of the In this ease the bandits got him cornered inside a Chinese house and as they were unable to catch him alive for the sake of ransom, they Killed him, The above two cases have not drawn so much attention in the town owing to the space that has deen devoted in the local press to the murder of Mr. Kaspe by Russian bandits and the measures which were adopted by the French Consulate in trying to save him, There is likely to be a very hi trial in this case but the genera Public all hope that the members of the gang will receive capital punishment so that the men who deen terrorizing Harbin several years should once and for all be removed from the city and their fate prove a deterrent to any of their companions trying to As regards the Chinese bandits who avo to be found round the town, these are very difficult, to exterminate as they live in the vil-Jages and are often engaged in ordinary business but, the authorities have fully decided that all of these bandit gangs must be put an end to, and are adopting measures to carry this out.
When the military and police succeed in clearing Manchuria of many bandit gangs that have subjected the people to great privations uring the past few years, they will have done a task that will gain them the gratitude of "the entire epulation and will considerably add to the future prosperity of the country. "Further the peasant classes will be enabled to pay proper taxes to their Government Instead of having to pay dues to the various bandit tribes'so as to prevent their property and their fields from being Turned by them, this again giving the Government' better financial Fe= sults from taxation, Nothing. has been heard lately of ang bandits along the Ussuri River from which it ig evident that they have disappeared from thet district and have either gone further south jor. hidden themselves in the mountains for the winter season, Youth's Terrible Experience.On September 4 a boy of seventeen years of age named V. Alla-Jguloff, son of a house owner in one jof the suburbs of Harbin was kidnapped by a number of bandits, These bandits broke into the house through a window and. before the joyes of hig mother took the boy: tortures to which this un-
Siangtan, Hu, Dee. 14, Honan remains quiet, in spite of any Tumours of oat along border of the province. The 4 man of the Province made a lighten-Some time ago and the writer ing trp to Lochang'in Keamgt Taichow, Ku, Dee. 18, In spite of the' inroads" which modern ideas have made upon the jeustoms of Taichow, Ku, some of the old ideas, in fact' many. of them, still prevail.
Weddings are usually' Conducted according to the ways of Tokyo, Dec. 22.
The Manchoukuo Legation here announced to-day that the South y Ca. had been granted a contract for the construc fon of three railway lines in Manchoukuo, along the road some time after and [the ancients with the middle' men ners The fist will stretch from Tumen, Tang Tomoars were. stil afoot land all even an they wore m the "ott, Kail, on the Korean border, bout the trip. That. the Hunan days of Confucius. the Chinese "Eastern be government. is remaining. true, the Important things t0 tween Amo: and Hailin Nanking seems assured, be decided in a wedding is under "The "second will stretch from "TaesPao automobile station what animals "the portion were perience gilt Seich from hich was burned down about a year born, For instance ly would never eauamenen, to Exha present ling to fortunate youth was subjected dur- fe ing his three months residence in the bandit camp cannot be deseribwas beaten with sticks and [the butt-ends of revolvers, and he made any sound his mouth Wa filled with earth or sand. till became unconscious. "The object of, all these beatings was to get, to say how much his father's proerty' was worth and what amount the bandits would be able to get for his release. "After a few days in the bandit camp near Harbin was carried off to a spot near Me-tai-tse Station which Is about half fan hour's railway journey from Harbin. "Here he was dragged into Chineke hut, in one comer of] which there was a deep pit and into this pit he With the son of one of the rail servants named Fu Lip-chi, and am other railway servant' nonicd Deni fsonko. "After being thrown into this pit, boards were put across there he was kept for more than a month.
The first ransom demanded for his release by the bandits wa }$70,000 ut, this was afterwards reduced to $3,000.
After much trouble his father! succeeded in collecting this sum, handing it over to the agents. of the bandit gang, but young All Jfuloft was not released according fo the terms of the agreement made Tt turned out that the bandits had been compelled to leave their hut and take their captive with them as they were being closely pursued by {therefore lay in deposit at " their Manchoakuo troops. "The money, agents' otices. It was learned that, the "bandits had removed to the eastern side of the railway line not from Ashihe Station, the captives being treated with extreme Jeruelty, as the bandits were enrage ed at having to. move away from their quarters. As a result of their removal from one camp to another the bandits stated that the $3,000 to which they agreed were now far from sufficient and they reavired another $2,000 as they had incurred Iheavy expense in moving from one Place to another.
Once more the parents had [start searching for money. and nally succeeded in collecting the further $2,000 required and" upon this being paid the bandits brought
Ashihe., His parents on receiving youth to the railway station at the information that had been brought to Ashihe, immediately went lout by train to meet him, but were struck with horror at his condition received from the beatings to which he had been subjected.
'This adds another story' to the many eases of kidnapping that have been carried on in Harbin during the past few months of which some eetot tes pedetnete cee ties being relented Wet tse leases they have been killed or have died from the effects of the torture Set one star Simost completely rebuild to arrange a wedding in. which Satatiar Tastee the or. the groom was under the rat ginal building.
The new station at the bride under the anake for: then to t4cventually {0'reach Hetho, on Yuin Fu Chao half way to Siang-Siang is finished and is a great imthe bride might easily swallow the he Manchurian bank of the Aviat, groom and t wedded bliss would provement on the old building. Many come to an untimely and humiliate The third will son from Koupei improvements are noticeable this last year in the stations on the dif end—at least for the groom. yingtsu to Lingyuan, forming faving got the matter of their extensi to Jehol, ey Feipleo of the Chinchow-Peij ino ferent roads. Many new workmen's births straight then the middlemen houses have been built, and the roads Kept in. good repair. must find a lucky day for the wed-The Wang Hen ding.
December 13" was conceded eis now complete. Thi 8 look-out on the jail interested in such matters highest point along the river in the to be a wonderful day for 'a wed. he city, called the Hengchow ing and as a result' 72 weddings Fookout. 11 ie also, part of me-Jwere reported to have taken place
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