Hainan, Sept. 9.
A guerilla band of soldiers is the terror of @ portion of the central district of the Island. The band move from market to market and boldly help themselves to all they need, while the timid townspeople are not altogether sure but that these are soldiers sent by the authorities in power. A party of Hainanese merchants and coolies returning from Singapore was robbed by these false soldiers at the Yellow Bamboo Market recently; a second party of about a hundred men, carted by two dozen soldiers from Kiungchow, passed through safely. A third party going to the eastern side of the Island accompanied by soldiers, was attacked and robbed at the market town of Contented Elegance."
This central region of Hainan has had a history of disturbances in the past.
Tt was the despair of and was organized into districts and given the itself from portions
name of Dongang (satisfactorily settled).
Its good name has not sufficed to change the character of the region and reports of unrest are frequent.
The typhoon floods of the last days of July are credited with mak-
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