The bandit situation has improved very considerably in this dis-jet when compared with the p: winter, although only a few weeks ago % number of small towns between Kueiteh and Pochow wers attacked and looted. One woman the wife of a church worker—is now in the Canadian Church Mission Hospital here suffering from the effects of a. rifle shot wound. The people in the s rounding villages still have their guards out. during the night and the hours of da: punctuated at pretty regular intervals with the rifle shots of the "Kun Chia tis." few weeks ago T visited Yucheng, a place which all last winter and until the summer months, had been very much within the sphere of bandit operations. Yucheng lies about 50 7/ east of Kueitech and 20 /) north of the railroad: and it was near here that a battle was fought last spring when cartridges were exchanged for silver dollars and there were "no casualties" on both sides. I slept at Yucheng
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