Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14

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n way. The Chinese asked for help; and
&, come British officers and a company
a of East Indian troops We're sent againfl!st
4 them. This company was the Fourth
Il Punjab Infantry, 1t found the brigands
n lima town about 10 miles from the rail
way. and fired upon them. They re-
u turned the fire; and ut the tirstsyol-
i ley Maj. Browning. who was in COM
4 mand, was killed and Lieut.. Sterling
i was wounded. Several of the Sepoys
4 We're also killed. The firing became
j general and a retreat was ordered. The
i East Indians. who We're on foot. We're
I pursued by the Huane Houtzes on
horse back and they had great trouble ill t
4 in getting back to the railroad. III The
/ next8daNSa company Of 700 from the
same infantry regiment Went out with
| 300 Japanese soldiers and attacked the
brigands. They fond them in the
same village. and / took four hours of
heavy fighting to drive them out, In;
these two engagements the Huangl
TIo,1tzes lost more than 300 men. or
about one-fifth of their whole number
SPIES AND SIGNAL FIRES.
hal Kwan saw fires blazing on the
mountains They We're of a peculiar
shape, forming airing like a horseshoe,
and I was told that they might possibly
he the signl fires of the Huang H0ut-
yes. These men have the same tele-$
graph system that once prevailed in
Korea, They communicate intelli-
gence by fires built on the hill-tops,
BY the number. and shape of such fires
they tell their fellows what they are
doing and within a short time are
able to send word from one part of
Manchuria to the other. Many of their
signal lights are made of wooden pegs,
which are followed out at the top and
filed with a composition. Half way
dawn each peg there is a hole to which
fuse Is attached. When this Is lit
the composition blazes up, giving a very
bright round light, which lasts several
seconds. One such flash means ono
thing, two another, and three another
the number of flashes indicating the 4
message. 81 4
ELS The Huang Houtzes have their spies 4
all over the country, and that even In
THE magistrates Offices Your coachman
may be a brigand in Disguise. You are
not sure as to your fellow passengers,
and the ma tive who says he is not fraid
and boasts of his immunity from the 1
$Huang Houtzes is pretty sure to be
robbed, Ss5
THE PIRATES OF MANcHURIA.
These same men carry on piracy
along the coast They 60 out in junks, 4
pretending to be merchants, and later
put in at little known. harbors to take
on their fellows. & They have captured
sailing iunks and the smaller. trading
craft Of the Chinese. Their sphere OF
operation has bean the Gulf of Pechili3
and the coasts of Manchuria and north
ern Korea. If they are chased blythe
men -of-war they sail up into the rivers
where the water is so shallow, that
large vessels cannot follow. Some years
since a Japanese gunboat captured two
q Of these pirate junks and found more
than three hundred thousand dollars
worth of silver in them. The pirates
frequently appear near NewchWang,
lying in wait for the junks as they
come out of the river, and making each
junk pay toll. They sometimes leave
their junks and pillage the villages on
shore.
THE BRIGANDS OF KIRIN.
One of the chief seats of brigandage
is the province of kilin, which lies
north of here. 1t is a rich territory,
three times as big as the state ~ IN
diana, having altogether a pottu,ation
of about G.O0000O. 1tsscapital is Sirn,
a town of about 100000 people. There
are many mountains in that region
which are infested with Huang Houtzes.
| They are well mounted and well armed,
and they collect a heavy toll on the
big cart traffic which is always moving
| between the capital and KWan-Cheng
Tsu, the nearest station on the South
! Manchurian railroad. Not only here,