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Show CHINESE BANDITS FIGHT WITH RUSSIANS TOKIO. June 1C A detachment of the army under Gen. Kurokl captured the town of Slu Yen on Sunday, after routing rout-ing and defeating a force of SCO Russians and 200 mounted Chinese bandits. The uncmy retired toward the Tao river, leaving leav-ing behind thorn three dead and two wounded men belonging to the Fifteenth East Siberian rejlmenl. The total of their losses Is not known. The Japaneso sustained sus-tained no casualties. This is tho rirst actual report of Chinese bandits fighting with Russian troops, and lt may mean that the Russians havo enlisted large numbers of these irregulars. |