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lr a ah sent oT de Sa OE FE OT Ee. » or ------ a a seme msssainiowns a EE ESR BE a EE a gid dct and db It is difficult to vealize what war and brigandage mean to the Chin- ese. people. Nearly all accounts of the tragedios enacted "fa the in terior of this country have reached the outside world from foreigners, mostly 'missionaries, whgse knows ledge of their graund and intimacy with the population have eilabled them to describe no less accurately than vividly what has been happen ing around them. From their edu- cated pens we have had conneéct- ed stories, and their grim narra- tives tell nearly all that there is to be told, writes .the Peking cor respondent in the London Times. There has recently'. been. shown to me, however, a collection of let- ters, dealing with the same sub- jeet from another angle; all writ- ten by 'Chinese, business men em- played in the interior, mainly dis- iributing foreign goods. They all concern themselves with the" local HEHE Teti and a us army coms | in, "the tuferi (bandits) start- "loot and looted all the shops. They walked into our office with rifles and took all they wanted. Many other ooh tice our: lives» 1 At. Sianfu, ) in oo Ce pe ns of v i: Through ation, T: Io ig 'among. the" b demd. thoigh "we are losing our proper- ties and risking our lives, with God's help we are living in "the world." | : At another town in Shens! where troops were mex xpectedly defeated 'the soldiers loo 256 shops, with [2 the families living in them, and the 'Chamber of Commerce estimat- ed the losses at $593,000 (£54. 000). When the soldiers began to rob] it. was midnight, and they continu- ed, for four days, all the people running-away to the villages. The condition was terrible, for they took all the property and adulter- ated (sic) the women and girls. Some of those innocents were ini- quitously beaten by the inhuman soldiers. Chenliu, in Honan, was last year invaded by tufei, "who attacked the city: wall where 'the magis- trate's soldiers were fighting. But i sac- fa" red © Al | legsly. Ta inan, with consequences disastrous Juhi and. was ransom- 0.000 (mearly £1,000). tties Susie" a) of opium & Sa siege of Sianfu vi ; issued $20,000,000 oo (anon gis 000) of paper the notes on the agi of the provin When he was defeated the at bony thie 'as ere Wi cent 3 When he is- ed » the scene. d anchor $1,000,000 LN © of Er same notes, Rus they a otis The order was emf ; "severs [ravishing wherever they; went, and | punishment, She on best is. a 'poor ravince nd ha 'mereci- troops. and bandits By several years In April the Mukden forces were across the Yellow River in Ho- to the people. The Chinese dread billeting, for mot only are they eaten out @f house and home, but they have to serve the soldiers, see their property taken or spoil- ed, while their women are wantonly abused. Ome household paid a Mukden officer $100 to abstain from bringing in soldiers, but the re- spite was only temporary as later comers would not be denied. Writing from Kaifeng in April, a correspondent says that the vie- torious troops (of Feng Yu-hsiang) "behaved like wolves and leap- ards." When the Mukden forces arrived outside they bomrbarded the eity with rifles, machine-guns, and cannon, destroying houses, and killing people, whereupon, after meditation, Feng's troops agreed tb retire, but before leaving looted forced j Honan, near : Spears, White Tibi and the Hea- troubles, how .stocks were saved from confiscation or *looted or burned, and how they themselves were treated and sometimes escap- ed barely with their lives. Some of the letters are written In stilted the tufei in the city and opened the gates. and was drowned. . 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Chihli troops had- the worst reputation, because they had no commissariat even on the battlefield, and the officers had to let the men do as they liked to supply themselves. It made you sick to see the pitiful condition of the place, houses ruiped, floors dug out by searching for money, all woodwork torn out for fire- wood, and nothing left but broken walls... . The soldiers took and loaded what they wanted and de- stroyed what was left. . . bar- harous ways were used to extort money from the people.¥ Roaster Like Pigs "Kerosine and peanuts (stolen) were loaded on trains and sent to Chengchow for sale by the soldiers. Farmers were roasted like, plga to make them give up their money, and if they had mone to give the roasting 'went on until they were dead. The roasting work was car- ried on hy the victorious troops hecause the others had taken all the money they could, and this new way had to be used to get more. . The Chihli troops were not pre- pared for war, so the commanders did not co-operate, but spent their time harrying the people, . . Eighteen villages were burned fin one battle." Near Loyang the soldiers are described as "burning all the vil- lages and looting and ravishing as they liked. The four suburbs. of Loyang were looted empty and many of the people of old age were put into the fire and burned and the children pulled to pieces." Ope travelling inspector with an unusually graphic pem had very lively adventures at Haatan, in South Chihli. One night in June, when all was quiet, he went to bed and woke up in the morning with. a tremendoys battle raging around aim, He cursed his sub- ordinates for having disappeared, and stayed close in the office pre- mises near the station until the savage Red Spears completed de- feated the Feng-tien troops. Then the Red people came to search for soldiers, but behaved well, and the inspector, hoping trcuble was over, was the first to go to bed that night. A Shattered' Dream "Everybody was in the dream, but unfortunately a batch of am- munition trucks were lined up at the siding, and when the office smashed into pleces the writer tried but found mo place to get out, The writer at the time was unable to shout for help as his mouth was full of sand. The agent ne- glected the strapger and ran away to an egg faetory where there was a dugout.', Without the mercy of Heaven I should be killed. , . When I got out of the window all the scene was changed , , , There was a dead body and many pieces of iron and am iron plate half through ' the wall. , . The Red Spears came and heard me speak another dialect and I found it un- wise to stay. . . We were arrest- ed and the two companions ordered to be executed. The wirter was allowed two days to get a guaran- lee or the same. punishment," That writer was lucky and got away. During fighting which start- ed agaip while he was asleep the ammunition trucks had exploded, creating devastation 'all around. "The jerk of the explosion made the iron door and frames of the wagons flew a mile away, plenty iron coming to our agency. All the houses near were down--A major- ity of farmers near the station were killed--Three villages with two 28 families were burned--The the decent, in the aor er t corner of gs a venly Gates Society added their armies and Heaven- bh field and captured' from the s, a brigade of whom royed, were ly looting, buraing, and capturi e for Tansomw=--A pitiful y The that for revenge they tear the childrem into two pieces by pulling of two men." In a fight between Red Spears and the Heavenly Gates, 200 were kill- ed on each side, besides. many pede able inhabitants. Looting by Feng's Men In August Tungchowfu (Shensi) was looted by Feng Yu-hsiang's 1st Kuominchan "for three whole days. Now six. days have passed and the soldiers continue their looting', secretly, About 100 men were killed during the looting. All your stocks, money, and the staff's clothes were taken by the soldiers. Fortunately none of our staff has been wounded. We have now es- caped to'Chaoyl and will go back when conditions a little better.-- This is terrible. We have never seen such looting before, 5 or 6 per cent of the people are wounded. Chenliu, Honan, was again at- tacked by bandits this October. "A thousand stormed the gate and commenced burning before loot= ing; They took away 180 carts loaded : with booty and 1,500 men and "women for ransom. About 180 people were killed:and arrest- ed, Twa of the writer's staff were taken by the bandits and two were missing. Two thousand three hundred dollars buried in the ground was discovered, and all stock, household geods, and per- sonal belongings were taken. Most shops were burned, and many mer- chants eseaped. There is no hope to reopen our business." «In August the Finance Depart- ment of Honan announced the is- sue of $4,000,000 loan honds for Honan and $3,000,000 for Shensi, apparently to redeem currency notes previously issued, Redemp- tion is to begin in 1828, and to be .completed in 1981 It is In- structive that this financial expedi- ent of the "Christian General" is stated to have for security, In Shensi, the tax on opium, and in Honan, the Fu Chung Mine, the preperty of a private Chinese com- pany financially asseeiated with the Peking Syndicate (British). Torturing Prisoners A letter from Tamipg, in South Chihli, dated the middle of No- vember, the tufei ensure that prisoners captured for ransom shall not escape, The unfortunate vie- tims are made to put their feet fn boiling water, afte which the bMstering make movement impos- sible. Another plan it to hang 200 copper cash on a string through the nose, a devilish device which effectively prevents a bound man from moving. One ghastly case is reported where robbers, not being content with some $800 extracted from a business agemey, poured kernsine over the manager's head and then set fire to him. The un- fortunate man is stated to be still alive, but with head and hands covered with an unsightly cancer- ous growth, The above and a sreat deal more to the same effect, form a pathetic record of savage crime committed against inoffensive And unprotected peasants and shopkeepers, the backbone of the country. The area dealt with is comparatively small but has its counterpart many times over in China, where equal ruth- lessness and disregard of human lives and property are characteris- tic of the times, The sum of hu- man misery is incalculable, all, be it noted, inflicted: on Chinese hy Chinese, by the vicious elements on Yet there is a so-called Nationalist movement which at- tributes the troubles of the coun- try to foreigners and aims at ejecting them, though it is incon- trovertibly established that only where foreigners have some power is there a semblance of Jaw and order and any recognition that the inarticulate masses have any rights | at all, me -------------------- NOT BEING CONVINCING (Ohio State Journal) Another thing that makes it a lit- tle difficult to accept the straw votes taken at the colleges as a true index of serious public senti- ment, even when they come out our way, is that quite a few scat- tering ballots for Aimee Semple McPherson, H. are generally cast L. Mencken, and Mayor Bossy Gil- lis, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, IT MAY HELP (St. Louis Star) A thousand more marines will be sent to Nicaragua to help the 2,- 700 already there put down a so- called guerrilla chief with a so- called handful of followers, AFTER THE LOBBYIST (Weston Leader) The lobby's zero value fis shown by the facet that all the lobbyists in Washington could not thwart unanimous passage by the Senate of an anti-lobbying bill. HE OUGHT TO SPEAK The cabled report that Trotsky, at his place of exile, had been shot by a formcr cnemy has been de- nied by Moscow, but it might be better to have Trotsky deny it. / ciety of Quebec, representatives of 'practically agricul Montreal, April 19.--At the invita- tion of the Market Gardeners' So- alt the' ural so- citties of Montreal met and decided recently .that they: would a del- §eation to to wait on Right Mac- iy oe Fst 1 Premier of Canada, to fore m the situation in which they are- pla the' recent deci- sion of Pood Cabinet withdrawing from the Minister of Customs the right he previously" rou! of establish- ing' um values for the purpose of charging "dumping duty" on fruits vegetables, etc. ht was given to the Min- ister of Customs in July, 1926, and since then the farmers have found that it was of great help to "them, without raising the price to the con- sumer, the farmer say. The dele- gates will go to Ottawa in a few ay: Those resent at the meeting were Catholic Farmers' Union, Al- deric Lalonde; United Farmers, W. Bastien; Pomological and Fruit Cul- ture Society , Desmarais and W, Tawse; 'M. Luke, ex-president, Canadian Council of Horticulture; L. F, Burrows, secretary-treasurer of the same society; Market Gardeners' Society, Paul Wattiez, J. J. McEvoy and Paul Boudrais; Federated Coop- erative of Quebec, R. Dumaine; Ag- ricultural Association of Quebec, Abel Raymond. NO SMOOTH PATH FOR PRAYER BOOK Committee for Maintenance of Faith Urges Post. ponement London, April 18.--The path of the revised pmyer book of the Church of England, which is to come before the House of Commons onee more for adoption or rejection does not appear to be becoming any smoother, The Church Times, the principa! Anglo-Catholic organ, has called roundly for the dropping of the measure instead of it being taken to the House of Commons again, and now comes an appeal fronr the committee for the maintenance of truth and faith for at least a long postponement, The committee for the mainten- ance of truth and faith is an omni- bus organization of evangelicals which was formed at the outser of the prayer hook controversy. Right Rev. Edmund Arbuthnott Knox. former Bishop of Manchester, lead- er of the committee, says the pray- er book "has a gaping rent on the New for Spring VERY new box--arriving daily--holds within its tissue wrappings , some delightful new Frocks, introducing the season's newest neck- lines, flares and various and sundry important details that mark these Frocks distinctly of spring, 1928. 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