'Things seem to have been rather lively' in this district jast lately. I have just returned and find that ten or more villages are engaged in a general fight.
iginated with. two small villages. Some mon of one village finding ti solves short of ground for planting rice had appropriated ground really belonging, to another village and had sown a good crop of rice there; the villagers owning the Iand apparently took no notice of this proceeding at the time, but later, when the crop was ripe, they came down in force and cut it, claiming that the rice grown on their land belonged to them. OF course this led to reprisals, and one! by one the neighbouring villages joined in and helped their respective friends, there are now about six villages on each side. The official oworless several have be fighting isin the Tintai district), but hat returned without doing anything. So far there have been ton men killed and others injured, and probably it will go on uni they get tired of it and patch up a tomporary truce.
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