BRIGANDAGE IN CHINA.
ASSUMING SERIOUS PROPORTIONS.
NATIONALIST AUTHORITIES TO SEND TROOPS.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received this, day, 9.40 a.m. SHANGHAI, September 26.
Two hundred bandits looted the village of Eanlochien, adjoining Wuslii, on the Shanghai-Nanking railway, ransacked four hundred shops and houses, collected half a million dollars from the thirty wealthiest captives, and killed several inhabitants who resisted them.
Civilian volunteers fought the bandits for an hour, but were defeated and disarmed. The bandits carried machine guns.
The Nationalist Government is despatching troops to rouiul-up the outlaws.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1927, Page 5
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