The Kueiyang branch of the Kuomintang has ciret regarding the Wanhsien affair, which Britain is (of course) denounced as the oppressor of weaker "unequal treaties prohibition of ships in Chinese waters, (does this mean all British ships or only men-of-war?), the recognition of full responsibility by Britain for Wanhsien trouble and compensation for same, ete. One is glad to see that the statement does not incite people to violence against individual Englishmen, and Iam glad to say that people appear just as friendly as usual, Gen. Yuan Tsu-ning left on Sunday last for Tungjen, in eastern Kueichow and near to the Hunan border, which will be for a time his headquarters. Presumably he has joined up with Canton, Gen, Chow Hsi our Civil Governor, is now employing soldiers on road building and I-am told that work is to be started at several places between here and Anshun (about 66 miles to the west) and at Anshun itself, with a view to getting this section of the' motor road finished by the end of the year. But I doubt whether this can be done in so short w time, The daily papers state that Gen. Yuan has sent military officers Hingi (his home in southwest Ku chow) to recruit fresh troop: looks as if he anticipates fighting—perhaps with the robbers who have so long infested the Yuan river in western Hunan.
But the experience of the two! lady mission workers was not destin.
to stop with contact with wound-soldiers.
Writing somewhat later, they relate the arrival of more.
southern soldiers, who searched the mission compound for northerners and made the occasion one for wholesale looting. At the point of bayonets and brutal treat~ ment one Indy was forced to give lup her wedding ring rather th have her finger cut off, her spectacles and wrist watch, Bverything in the house was tured tops tury and trunks were ransacked for money, which, thow-ever, did not prevent the overlooking: of $200 hidden ini one of the trunks. About two works ago, the presence of 20,000 soldiers was' reported, and was said that local students were throwing in their efforts with those of the soldiers to stir up anti foreign feelings. When the high Joffiials arrived in the city and started filling all important city posts with southerners or their sympathizers, much of the disturbance was eliminated.
The officers for the most part) extended courteous treatment to the foreign residents, it is said. Four of these made arrangements to occupy a portion of one of the missions there, safeguarding the farcangements by a promise that none of their retinue should be permitted inside the compound.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.