BANDITS LOOT VILLAGE
OUTRAGE IN CHINA ROBBERY AND MURDER By Cable. Press Association. —Copyright Reed. 9.5 a n. SHANGHAI, Monday. Twc hundred bandits looted the village of Kan-10-chien, adjoining Wu-sih, on the Shanghai-Nanking line. They ransacked 400 shops and houses, and collected half a million dollars from thirty of their wealthiest captives. They killed several inhabitants who resisted. Civilian volunteers fought the bandits for a:t hour, but were defeated and disarmed. The bandits carried machine-guns. The Nationalist Government is despatching troops to round up the outlaws.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 1
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