While this was going on the guard, having made its way into the woods, started, an attack from the south" side of the railway station hoping to encircle the bandits before the arrival of assistance from Mullin station.
Fighting went on for some time between the handful of which the guard consisted and the bandits, both hand. grenades and machine: guns being used, with the result that the station buildings suffered very severely.
Finally the bandits were driven back' with considerable loss, but doff with them two Commercial Agency of the rails three Manchoukuo railway servants, 'A breakdown train was sent from Mulin to the spot this morning to repair the damage but meanwhile the bandits have disappeared into. the hills. It is proposed to send a very strong punitive expedition into the district between Sochintse and
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