Show 8 BANDITS BlACKMAil CHINESE Gt Corre Correspondence pol denee Associated Press Prent CANTON Jan 26 More More than robbers robbers robbers rob rob- bers are I aI saId to be at work in th the Fa Un district of 01 Canton province pro Fa Un th the principal city of 01 tho district Is 18 surrounded b by a band of ot oe over orsi a thousand who ho demand demand demand de de- de- de mand payment of ot between Ott fifteen n and andt t twenty enty thousand dollars Mexican A A. chapel of the Berlin Missionary so so- so i In Luk Ha Han n about ten miles mUGs away from Fa Un city has received a threatening letter r demanding Max Mex leanA lean ican A large valley J. J on the other side of ot the city has been alt assessed eise 1 by th the robbers Mexican about 1 per capita Last month a Christian preacher W was II captured and not released till his family had succeeded ed In raising the sum lium of a a large larse sum SlIm for a poor poOl Chinese family In another section of or the tho troubled trouble district district district dis dis- dis- dis the th soldiers levy y a tribute of a certain certain tam tain number r of catties 8 of ot rice per Chinese mou or acre and the robbers 1 likewise Ie lev levy r tribute It Is b reported that the dis district district dis- dis ls magistrate tr tc has committed suicide through mortification at his inability to copo cope with tho the situation A chit chapel pel of ot the New 6 Zealand PresbyterIan Presbyterian Presby Presby- Ian ter-Ian mission in Lun Lung Lamp Choung Hin not far from the line of oC the Canton railway raUBY was literally cleaned out l hy by y the th robbers on November 27 This was the tho second time within six piX months The usual kidnapping of girls Is going on a also Ho |