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Show BANDITS LINED UP. OFF GO ALL HEADS SHANGHAI, Feb. 19. (By The Associated As-sociated Press.) Keports brought to Hhsnshfil by river craft from the Upper Up-per Yangtszo are that the Chinese authorities au-thorities in seeking to qusl outlawry : e 1 1 j suppress disorder following the looting of the city of Ichung by mutinous muti-nous troops, have adopted the most ; drastic methods. All e'aptured bandits, I say the reports, are executed with little lit-tle or no formality- A scene chararterlstic of descriptions descrip-tions of the working of Chinese jus- 'tice wfl described by Captain T v. Uoyle, of the steamer Mai Shun which recently came to Shanghai- When his ste.-inur was ut Wanhsb-n coaling Captain Cap-tain Doyle said those nboard saw 2 8 culprits led to the river bank. These were forced U) kneel in a line and I then the; executioner with his heavy two-handed sword proceeded slowly down the line, a head falling with each swing of the sword. Such wholesale executions, the captain cap-tain said, became almost dally events in ttie winter months at centers on the river like Wanhsien |