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Show HEAVY LOSSES IN CHINA WAR Hundreds of Deaths Reported When Bandit Forces Attack Towns. SHANGHAI, China, Aug. G. Un Two hundred bandits and an equal number of farmers and merchants were killed when th1 former made a raid upon the village of Wuyuansien in the southern section of the Anhwes province, dispatches received here today said. The banditry, numbering about 450, attacked without warning. After routing the hastily summoned summon-ed defenders in a short and bloody battle they began to burn and plunder t lie captured district. More than half of the robbers I possessed modern rfles and pistols i which they used with deadly effect. The dispatches also declared that three other villages had been destroyed de-stroyed by the marauders'and that the population had appealed to the Nationalist government for aid. |