Oct. 27, A correspondent, who charge of a missionary hospital, writes that "a soldier brandished his automatic in the faces of the medical and nursing staff, until it was taken away him by one of the physician Similar incidents are happening all over the country. Modern weapons and the esprit of a soldier are new to many of the [Shantung, Chihli and other provincial peasants who become soldiers in the various feudal lannies of the country, They use the weapon, as they use thei hoe perhaps, whenever they want to, on civilians probably as often as on their enemies, with the result that a countryside through which soldiers. are passing.is usually terrorized, even when those soldiers have been sent to maintain law and order. It is futile for a great commander to expect that his men will be paragons of virtue, as he cannot be with them all the time and cannot know what they are doing. Something must be Jeff to the individual man—and the in-
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