Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-06 | Page 1 | Bandit Band Kills Many in Chinese Raid

BANDIT BAND I IK K IllS MANY IN CHINESE RAID Six Gunboats of Outside Nations Anchored Off Coast French and British British Brit- Brit ish inh Are re Participating PEKING O Deo 6 By A. A P. P P.- P. Bandits scaled the walls of Lik- Lik In southeastern southeast rn nonan Ho nan province pro pro- vince and looted and burned the i town some days ag ago according to ad advices s received tod today y from front a mission mis mis- sion n station at in province across the boundary line from the burned town Two thousand dead an and wounded were left behind bebin when th-s th bandits bandits' abandoned the smoking ruins a at the j town the advices said I Although the attack attack occurred m rn j I November mid details of it were delayed In reaching the rest of the world world by the isolated position of far up a a. tributary of the Hankla g river I HONG KONG D Dec c. c 6 By A. A P. P Marines from foreign warships anchored off Sham Shameen en the foreign settlement of oC Canton have landed on the Bund and taken possession of or the custom house fortifying themselves s with machine guns ac according according according ac- ac cording to ad advices vices received here Six foreign gunboats are known to be anchored off Sh Shameen meen They Include the two American vessels the Asheville and the the British ships Cicala and Moorhen Moorhen Moor Moor- hen and the French gunboats Ma- Ma and Craonne I IThe The British flotilla has been strengthened by the arrival of the I gunboats Magnolia with Admiral Deveson aboard and the Tarantula according to later advices received here The Japanese gunboat Matsu and the destroyer Sugi also have arrIved arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived at Canton the advices state Admiral of ot the French navy Is la aboard the Craonne Canton military objective of the north China forces of G General Chen C Chili Chili- tnt Ming ing and and stronghold ot of S' S Sen n. n at Sen south China leader his toe has been the scene of much internal disturbance during the past few months air as- asChen's Chens Chen's forces menaced nearby towns Martial law recently was declared throughout through through- out the city Last month Chens Chen's army was re reported reported reported re- re ported only twenty miles mUes from CantOn Canton Canton Can Can- ton and Suns Sun's forces prepared for tor foran foran toran an engagement in defense of the city by entrenching themselves on the hills six miles from Canton Defections from Suns Sun's army have been reported to be numerous for several weeks and banditry Is said to have hare been prevalent for some sometime sometime sometime time despite rigid restrictions Imposed Imposed imposed Im Im- im- im posed by authorities throughout Canton I 1