Whatever their beginnings, the Chinese history of these people is long record of revolutions and massacres, conspiracies, treacheries and counter-treacheries. They start) in this wise. In some remote village in Kansu there is s dispute among to the way in which er should trim his Two petty sects are born and before they are many days old there is strife and bloodletting. Then the Chinese interfere to restore order, whereupon the rival sects unite and assail the Chinese. Alarmed, the Chinese call for reinforcements, and so do the Hwei-Hwei, and within a month a fiery feud is waging in which whole provinces are desolated, thousands are slaughtered and millions are terror-stricken, impoverished and generally miserable. The Moslems are brilliant, dashing, and remorse-
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