One of the strangest psycho. logical and moral phenomena that] have ever observed ie how the stud-wealthy captives whom they are! holding to ransom. Not a word was was raised in protest. There are some 8,000 troops stationed at Welhwei. The only thing that makes life toerable for the country people in the robber-infested districts of North Honan is an organization called the Red Spear Society. They are or-zed in many hundreds of villages They carry a spear ornamented with a red tassel. They go through feertain incantations and conditions exercises which make them invulnerable." They write the Jeharacter "Fu" (Buddha) on yellow paper, burn the paper and drink the fakes. They also carry a "Fu" [character in the hand, and then rush with utter fearlessness on the ban-its. How easy it would be to turn these hordes of "illiterate superstitious spearman against the Christ-fans! "This is not the China that the Chinese Ministers in Washington and London like to talk about.
During the last month the fury of indignation and hatred against. the! British for the shooting of Chinese citizens. in Shanghai, Hankow and Canton has been somewhat tempered by the pleasure of seeing the weakness of the diplomatic body 1 Peking, the jealousy and. division among' the foreign Powers, and the general ineptitude with which the Whole situation has been handled. Who could have thought that so! many months would elapse before! any jadiclal enquiry was started into the caures of the Shanghall riots?
Feng Yushsiang's At General Peng Vu-hsiang has tried to make use of the emergency to in his lost popularity. He has openly advocated war with Britain and has offered the lives of all his men as a willing sacrifice in resisting the bloodthirsty English. It is not his daty coldly to calculate the possibility of success or victory, but ly to advocate righteousness! Has he not again and again dedo that his men will not fight their Chinese brothers? He can ahead with perfect hypoeris: complete his preparations for Jagainst Chang Tso-lin. He cal on all foreign missionaries to speak cut and denounce tne Shanghai Murders; otherwise their day of reckoning is coming. General Feng has forbidden any foreigners to travel near Kalgan or in Mongolia ax he fears chat he cannot guarantee their safety from brigands, although has perhaps 80,000 well discipline ed troops under his command.—This simply means that he is securing great quantities of munitions from Russia, and is receiving numbers of Bolshevik officers to train his men in modern warfare, and he does not want to have foreigners as witnesses of his perfidy. Considerable nut ders of these oticers are training the armies in Honan. I met four of them on the street in Weihwei recently, and others have been seen Kaifeng driving in the Governor's car. Feng, of course, is short of nioney and his men's pay is badly in arrears, How is. he to repay fay curs he receives from Russia but in allowing free opportunity to the Bolsheviks to propagate their political views in China?
Honan Thoroughly -Red Honan has gone thoroughly red. [Two schoolboys and. a school gi came from Shanghai not long ago. They are said to have received money, from the Military Governor of Honan to bring about a strike in the Peking Syndicate mines at Chiso Teo. They
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