CHINESE BANDITS
URGE .".REAURD WASIE TRIAL OF BODIES (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) PEKIN, Nov. 22. Mr Ledgard, an English missionary who escaped from bandits, has written a letter to a friend here giving a graphic account of the activities of bandits, who number thirty thousand and are laying waste a path in Ho-nan province six miles wide, burning every city, town and farmhouse, and leaving a trail strewn with dead bodies. The bandits are mostly former soldim-s and are well armed and mounted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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86CHINESE BANDITS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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