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Show Revolutionary Sympathizers Sympa-thizers Are Set Upon by Brigands Peking, Jan 30. The police of Mukden are systematically raiding the homes cf prominent men suspected of being in sympathy with the revolutionary revolu-tionary party, assassinating them ana carrying off their wives and daugh-teis, daugh-teis, according to a letter from v a missionary in that city received hero today Consular reports confirm the accounts of scores of murders nightly. Tho letter of the missionary continues contin-ues "Wholo armies of 7nounted robbers are holding up and plundering travelers trav-elers along the roads leading into Harbin. These brigands hold the rich for ransom, which has to toe paid either In guns, ammunition or in money. They torture and kill their victims If the ransom is not forthcoming. forth-coming. The law-abiding Chinese. of the vicinity arc prayJngfor the jln.-' torvenrlon "of the Japanese vnSy4jl3s ern, Manchuria npcfiKt&'f (Russians General Chao Erh Feng, tho -vi-cerov of the province of Sze Chuan, who was decapitated by the revolutionists revolu-tionists at Cheng Tu in December, was the brother of General Chao Erh Hsun, the viceroy of Manchuria Tbe latter Is evidently determined not to sharo his brother's fate tnd perhaps Is also exacting vengeance for his brother. General Chao Erh Hsun Is the only vigorous opponent of republicanism repub-licanism among tho remaining viceroys. vi-ceroys. He has adopted tho method of emplojlng hundreds of brigands as a police force tnd Is legalizing tho assassinations and other crimes committed com-mitted by tho desperado bands. |