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Show CHINESE BANDITS UPB!SEJ KOREA OUTLAWS ENGAGE SOLDIERS IN HOT BATTLE; SIX SOLDIERS SOL-DIERS KILLED Object of Insurgents to Force Movement Move-ment to Reinstate Them in Army; Assume Bold Attitude Peldn. Chinese bandits have resumed re-sumed aggressive operations on the Korean border. Brigands and troops met in battle at Ershitaoku, according to dispatches received here Wednesday. Six soldiers sol-diers were killed and a score kidnaped. kid-naped. After dispersing the troops, the outlaws kidnaped thirty laborers who had been at work under protection of the soldiers. The rest of the laborers escaped by fleeing to other towns along the border. The object of the bandits who recently re-cently kidnaped many foreigners, Including In-cluding Americans, was to force the government to reinstate them in the army. This exploit may be in furtherance fur-therance of that scheme. The success of the Shantung bandits who seized the Americans has probably encouraged encourag-ed others to take a more aggressive attitude. |