Peasants Pressed into Army:
Fukien Forces to Join Sun From Our Own Connesroxpent Yenchow, Cha, Oct. 26.
In the whole of this region the! people are seeing no war nor do they hear the sound of the trumpet, but the silence is ominous. Recruit" ing is being carried oh up and down the country and boat lands of young. fellows, many of them mere school lads, ar@ being rushed to Hangchow for training.
The poor hardworking peasant and tradespeople are being preyed upon once more but fortunately they are spared the horrors of last year's débdele. Tt is just a year ago that General Sun made his famous march on Chekiang, scattering the local armies which had concentrated to oppose him on the Fukien border.
During the past week or so the Chien Tang river has presented a lively. appearance with the large convoy of boats bearing the Fukien army to the capital.—Shopkeepers of course, are greatly inconvenienced through the disorganization of transport: they are strong in their invectives. against these military despots with their terrible record of violence, greed and treachery. With the speedy exodus of these fighting units anxieties and fears are easing up somewhat but the question of the hour is how long this apparent security will last.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.