The Archive · 1935

BANDITS RANSACK HOPEI VILLAGES

Deinilitarized Zone Scene of Fierce Fight Peiping, Nov. 14 Bandits. who on Wednesday night attacked and ransacked the villages of Miyun and Huaiju, to-night were reported to be engaged in a fierce combat with the Peace Preservation Corps at Wangehiakao in Chanpingsion in the Demilitarizea Zone.

'The outlaws, said to be about 300 strong, are calling themselves the opel" Independence Army. They were driven' into Changpinghsien Peace Presevation units—Rengo, more or less comfortably to-night-in our shoes and heavy clothing, ready at any moment to jump up and run for our dear lives. Were it not {0° the fleas which our Tibetan com-anions have thoughtfully shared with Us, life would not be at all bad.

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