| Show MANY ARE KILLED AS BA BANDITS N OITS RAID BANDITS SCALE WALLS AND LOOT AND BURN TOWN IN SEARCH OF TREASURE Marines From Foreign Foreign Ships Take Tako Possession of Custom House and Fortify Themselves With Machine Guns Peking Bandits Peking Bandits scaled the walls of in southeastern Honan pro province ince and looted and burned the town some days ago o according to advices advices ad ad- I ad-I vices received from a mission station at in province across the boundary line from the tho burned town Two thousand dead and wounded were left behind when the bandits abandoned the smoking ing ruins of the town the advices ad said Although the attack occurred in November mid details of it were delayed delayed delayed de de- in reaching the rest of the world by the isolated position of Lik Lik- far up ill a tributary of the river Hong Kon Kong Marines Kong Marines from foreign warships anchored of off Shameen tho the foreign settlement of Canton have haye landed on the Bund Band and tal taken en possession possession possession pos pos- session session of ot the custom house fortifying fortify fortify- ing lug themselves themselves with machine guns buns according to advices received here Six foreign gunboats are known to be e anchored off of Shameen They I include the tIte two American vessels the tho Asheville and the the tho British ships Cicala and Moorhen and the French gunboats and Craonne The British British flotilla has been een strengthened by the arrival of the gunboats Magnolia with Admiral enson Do aboard and tho the Tarantula according to later advices received ed here The Japanese gunboat Matsu and the destroyer Sugi Sui also have arrived c at Canton the advices s state I Admiral of the French na navy Is aboard the Craonne I |
