Everyone knows that the Chinese have a profound reverence for the graves of relatives. Some time ago I happened to see a good many Japanese soldiers gathered at a certain plaice. Some were xent to plant a flag at a spot near me where there was a grave. The men had no mallet to drive ina stake to which they intended lashing the ting-pole. They pulled up the tombstone beside me, nade a mallet of it, and then threw it away. The new road mentioned above passes through many grave-yards. In some places, I understand, the people got warning, of which they took due advantage. In many places they got no intimation of it whatever. When the road was newly made, in dozens of places halves of coffins could be seen sticking out of the embankment at the side. This was because the side of the road happened to cut a grave transversely. Hye-witnesses told me when the Japanese coolies thus came on a coffin they simply sawed it in two, scraped out the bones and threw them into the foundation of the road. On the 26th of June, T saw a good few of such halves of coffins,, In the ditch at the side of the road I'saw something white. ' What that?" Isaid to the Chinese who was with me. "It is a man's skull," he replied. I could scarcely believe him till I went into the ditch and examined it for myself. Treverently covered it up. What wonder is it if the relatives of the deceased who once occupied these coffins should join the ranks of the "robbers" and attack the Japanese
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