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Show 'MANY ARE KILLED AS BANDITS RAID I BANDITS SCALE WALLS AND LOOT AND BURN TOWN IN SEARCH OF TREASURE Marines From Foreign Ships Take Possession of Custom House and Fortify Themselves With Machine Guns Peking, Bandits scaled the walls of LIkwankia In southeastern Honan province, and looted and burned the town some days ago, according to advices ad-vices received from a mission station at Lachokow, . in Hupeh province, across the boundary line from the burned town. Two thousand dead and wounded were left behind when the bandits abandoned the smoking ruins of the town, the advices said. Although the attack occurred in mid-Xovember details of it were delayed de-layed in reaching the rest of the world by the Isolated position of LIkwankia, LIk-wankia, far up a tributary of the Hankiang river. Hong Kong, Marines from foreign warships anchored off Shameen, the foreign settlement of Canton, have landed on the Bund and taken possession pos-session of the custom house, fortifying fortify-ing themselves with machine guns, according to advices received here. Six foreign gunboats are known to be anchored off Shameen. They Include the two American vessels, the Asheville and the Pampanga ; the British ships Cicala and Moorhen, and the French gunboats Maliclense and Craonne. The British flotilla has been strengthened by the arrival of the gunboats Magnolia, with Admiral Devenson aboard and the Tarantula, according to later advices received here. Tlie Japanese gunboat Matsu and the destroyer Sugi also have arrived at Canton, the advices state. Admiral Frochat of the French navy Is aboard the Craonne. |