Bandit Vanguard Repulsed by Provincial Troops Peiping, Aug. 7.
'A bandit vanguard of the Manchoukuoan troops operating under Gen. Li Shou-hsin has been repulsed. in a series of attacks on towns in Suiyuan province, according to rellable Chinese reports, A group of 2,000 bandit conscripts of Li's army attacked Tumerte and Taolin in eastern Suiyuan on July 30, August 2 and August 5, it was learned, with the apparent intention Of testing the strength and resistance of Suiyuan provincial troops under Gen. Fu Tso-yi. The latter, assisted by militia, drove off the attackers on each oteasion, the reports said United Press.
There are three Tokyo University students in the expedition. They are led by 27 year-old Mr. Yaichi Hotta, and "accompanying them is Mr. Sakuta Takefusht, sports writer for the "Osaka Mainichi."
"The reports of the Ruttledge and other European expeditions will guide us in our attempt," Mr. Hotta, tala interviewers in Singapore. "The start will be made from the village of Almora about September 1, when the south-west monsoon will have blown itself out. We hope to estat lish a base camp at Marten (12,000 {t). We will employ 50 porters."—Reuter, Five persons, including two officers and three passengers, were kidnapped when the s, Shun Hsing was pirated shortly after midnight on August 5 while nearing Amoy from Anh; The vessel was carrying 100 passen-Bers at the time. The outlaws decamped with $5,000 cash collected from the passengers,
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