(On the evening of the 4th instant the south suburb of Kaifeng city was looted. A number of the main business places together with the mint were the principal sufferers. Careful inquiries elicit the fact that Division Commander Mah Tsanging does not admit that this looting was the work of his men of the 3rd Honan Complete Di Ty is claimed that the looters were really enders of Wu Pel-fu's School in Loyang, The looting was all done in the eatlior part of the evening, and before midnight these men had commandeered a train and made away to the east. Not satisfied with the result of their work in Kaifeng they made a clean sweep of the towns long the railroad os far as their train was able to take them. They were perhaps making for Kueiteh, where the 24th Division had gone. the proceeding day. Advised vf the. approach of this unruly element, the military command in Kueltehhad the bridge over the small river at Litho, west of Kueiteh, broken, and when the train on which this contin. gent reached the spot, the engines into the stream bed.
fo casualties seem to have oceured, but the engines were wrecked. 'Though the ars remained on the the looters, no doubt from guilty consciences, fearing an amduseade, made' away to the north-are. now. somewhere in 16. Nearly 80 of the Loyang were rounded up and sent back to Kaifeng, where they are now in barracks in the south suburb. When they arrived at the Kaifeng station, the local guard feared that the whole body of the looters had Yoturned to the city, and made a dash for the city and safety. These fare, indeed, nervous days {n oUF pro-
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