These occurrences are now reported im the local press most laconically, as if they were only street accideate, but the "aflack made yesterday on the staff of the Kondo "Timber concession was one which called for big headlines, as if was very excep: tional, three "men being killed and two. seriously wounded. In this case also, there is not the slightest doubt that the outlaws had full information regarding the fact that the general manager of the concession, Mr. Nakamura, was carrying a large sum of money for the payment of wages, this sum being in the neighbourhood of $90,000, For safety he was accompanied by te chief of the concession police, a 'Russian named Lubelsky, the engine: fr.of the concession, - Omelchenko, the' telephone manager, Lebenek, foreman, Maksimoff, and a Manchit Jdriver. "The party took one of the trolleys, which are used on the branch line from the main railway to the concession quarters, attaching horse to pull it along.
All went well till about the fourth kilometre, when suddenly a hurrleane of bullets descended on the small party, Instantly killing the three Russian chiefs, seriously wounding the general manager and
the Manchu. "It was this last-man the foreman, and slightly "wounding who was able to escape and carry the news "of the "tragedy to. the offices "at the concession. Ho deseribed the attack, stating that the bandits rushed out of the woods, seized the bag with the money, and immediately decamped, and that in his opinion there were not Yeas. than 40 men. Mr, Nakamura was shot in the wrist of the right hand and received another wound on his body. "The guards on the concession made search for the bandits, but could find no trace of them.
Another Incident istence for many years and have always housed quite a number of Dandits, though it ts quite impossible to distinguish between them and the ordinary peasants who are running vegetable "gardens on the further Side of the river. The only possible getting rid of the bandits who reside so very close to Harbin world destroy these villages altoge-
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