Beans and Wheat Prices Increase Front Our Own Connesronoext 'Mukden, Oct. 10, 'The hunting season is' on. "Only few days ago our sun-bathing enthusiasts were enjoying tiffin beside the open air swimming pool. for, although most of them considered the water far too cool for bathing purposes, they still used the pool as a back-around for snap shots or as an excuse for sun-tan costumes during 'a brief hour in the middle of the day. To-day the distinct nip in the air makes it possible to wear, with some degree of comfort, the weird collection of heavy and antique clothes in which the local nimrods take good care to be seen at the close fof a successful day in the feld Last Sunday two parties of foreigners returned with such considerable bags that as one in the cloak room of the Club modestly put it "You see the other fellows' birds practically no room to exhibit ours." ing of bags, the report of September 24 which detailed the wrecking of three trains by one group of bandits In a single evening not only makes Jo new record for these outrages, but falzo causes the postponement of trips planned by our local hunters.
Triple Train Tragedy The bandits, described as Communists, overturned and attacked the night train from Hsinking to Seishin on the Korean Coast. This took place about 168 miles from Hsinking at 1230 am. Upon receipt of the news an armoured train was despatched from Erhtalho at 1245 a.m. but the Same bandits derailed it some 1,500 yards west of the original wreck, Wounding six of the soldiers.
The through tra fa had been proceeded by a pilot train, which the bandits had allowed to pass before derailing the through train. The pilot train upon arrival at the next Station east learned of the attack, took on board a number of soldiers and hurried back to the relief of the victims. But about 500 metres east lof the first wreck the bandits derailed the pilot train. The reports indicate only' one killed and sixteen injured Ju the three affairs, which does not make this attack one of the most serious, but the damage to the rolling stock and the expense required for restoration of traffic is a, considerable lem. Locomotives and coaches which roll down embankments, not only disturb the trae department, but require no little work in the shops to restore them to service, land in these same districts groups of bandits exist to-day.
For propaganda purposes various officials of the government announce that "There are no more political bandits", or "AN large bands have been annihilated or dispersed." A report released yesterday, however. nounced that the Japanese troops from Chinchow, known to the world fs the last rallying point of Chinese Administration in 1931, from Shanhaikuan, where the Great Wall comes down to the sea, and from Chaoyang, eastern gateway to Jehol, are uniting!
a large scale drive against bandits around the Eastern border of Jehol.
Large Wandering Bands of Outlaws These groups of outlaws are no mere wandering highwaymen. Organized bands of from 1,000 to 2,000 have been reported from those areas. Some of them are remnants of the old North Eastern Armies and rejoice: in the patriotic titles of "National Salvation Army" and. similar labels which may be calculated to win ancial support from Chinese within the Great Wall. These groups of "Volunteers" maintain a species of guerilla warfare against Japanese. but the vast majority of those described as bandits live by robbery, plunder, Kidnapping and murder, of which the principal victims are their own, unfortunate fellow countrymen, An accurate estimate of the number of these pests is impossible, for the guards in one village may become bandits outside of their home acres In fact a few days ago the chief of the local Self Defence Corps at 9 large town south of here after arrest by the gendarmes confessed, under severe examination. that he was chief supply officer for the bandits in that area.
Officia! reports usually give the estimated number of outlaws and in most cases the names (but usually not the addresses) of the chiefs. A
Feport officially issued by the Japaese Army not long ago gave an unique type of identifation by. referring (o the group Under a certain chief as, "the band which bad been annihilated." at another point on a certain earlier occasion. "We would of be astonished to hear that that chief "lacked sincerity," it it can be established that he was responsible for the rumours in which the report of his death had. been so grossly exaggerated.
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