MANCHURIAN BRIGANDS.
FIFTEEN CHUNCHUSES EXECUTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright, Pekin. January 25. A eorce of Cossacks after repelling an attack made upon them by Chunchuses on the Muriaveff Amursky Promontory, in Eastern Siberia, has handed fifteen of the robbers over for trial by a Chinese tribunal, and all have been executed.
The Chunchuses are the bandit tribes of Manchuria. They march in armed bands sometimes with artillery, and lew toll on the inhabitants. They operated against the Russians during the war, and frequently out the railway. It was said they were in the pay of Japan, and that Japanese officers led them. After the war they appeared in unusually large bands, well armed, and in strong force marched last year to near Mukden. The raid reported in the cablegram must have been a very bold one, for Muravieff Amursky is- a peninsula in Peter the Great Bay, on which Vladivostok stands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13397, 28 January 1907, Page 5
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