BANDITS SACK TOWN.
ESCAPEES’ REPOETS. (A. and N.Z. Cable). PEKIN, Aug. 18. Messages s’tate that bandits attacked and burned Tsaosi'h. Two hundred captives were taken. PEKIN, Aug. 19. (Reuters. Two Catholic priests who escaped from TsaosiiTh have reached Han-kp-w. One named McHugh succeeded in crossing the river using a door as a raft._ They report the greater part of the town has been burned though the Catholc Church and the Protestant Hospital escaped.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15907, 20 August 1923, Page 5
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73BANDITS SACK TOWN. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15907, 20 August 1923, Page 5
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