CHINESE BANDITS.
BIPUDENT BEHAVIOURCIVILIANS FLEE FROM A TOWN. Shanghai, Dec. 6. Advices from Shantung give definite details of bandits’ operations at Tsingtao. Five bandits captured the chairman of the chamber of commerce, holding him for a hundred thousand pounds’ ransom, and issued an ultimatum that unless Tsing-tao was handed over to them by December 10, they would kidnap all responsible Chinese officers and burn and pillage the city. The Japanese authorities, who evacuate on that date, declared it impossible to change their plane. The Chinese attempted to conciliate the bandits without success. The shopkeepers closed their shops, and many of the civilians fled to Tsinan-fu, the capital of Shantung province. The Japanese Legation have announced that only in the event of the Japanese being endangered after the evacuation would Japanese troops be landed for their protection.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 7
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138CHINESE BANDITS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 7
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