Tyranny of the Press Gang Such as Never Known: Wholesale Sweeping into Army Taingtao, Oct. 29.
The lengths to which the Feng-army is going in impressing ties throughout the province can sat be described aa the institution of a reign of terror. Within the leinory of the oldest Shantungese there has never been anything. to Ompare with it, The cities and ruval districts are both feeling the effect of the seizing of thousands of men. With the hinrvest. season idgt finished and° the ni moving their eros confronting th ners, the loss of labour at. this thie ig very Keenly felt. The short-ake of help on the farms and the present paralyzed state of trans-Pbrtation and darting facilities will sre to be Feflected in scarcity cof -téodutafts and its concomitant, the Boosting of prices.
1 Crowds of Misfits Jul tow Tsingtao, has tw6 kinds "aqiads' in abtihdénet—the iment' squad- and the awkward:
From the former is evolved latter. The green. ones were] pulling carts and ricshas a few days ago and now are undergoing a course of intensive training to fit them for service at the front. No tone expects. very much of such oldiers. All over the city wherever a piece of vacant property lends itself, crowds of misfits are being drilled th the rudiments of military training by veteran Fenkgtien officers, whose -raueous shouts are borne upon the ear from every side. Until a few days ago marching songs seemed to be order of the day here. Now there appears to be an at. mosphere of grim business about the place. Many of those who used to sing of China's great aspiration 1 are now reported as being likely to be in the thick of it in a few dags' time.
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