CHINESE BANDITS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 368, 20 April 1910, Page 5

CHINESE BANDITS.

CAPTURE A CITY. | HORRIBLE BRUTALITIES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Port Darwin, April 19. News by an Eastern mail gives some details of Jtlie taking of the Chinese city. Livai Acn Hsien, by robbers. The city is 'built on an island in the Liu river, about three days' journey from Kiveilin. the capital of the Kivangsi province. The country around is full of 'precipitous limestone mountains, affording secure retreat for bandits. The robbers killed the head ofl'icials and many of the inhabitants. The young men of the place were made -to .stand in a line like cattle, and were then secured by holes pierced through the protruding portion of the nose, or through the flesh at the back of the ankles, through which pieces of string were passed. Eventually the captives were utilised as beasts of burden to carry off the loot, All the young good-looking girls in the city were also mustered by the robbers and carried off by them into the mountain fastnesses. The concluding scene of the tragedy was the setting on fire of the town. A correspondent says that although little was heard of these things, as a rule outrages similar to the above were of frequent occurrence inland. Village after village, and city after, city, were plundered and desolated by heartless bands of freebooters, who were rarely captured and punished.