We have had a shining exponent of the game here in Tsangchow for tthe past months, and he deserves a wider publicity for his minded: than can be given in the native) press, even if Chinese editors dared to publish facts reflecting on the Justice and probity of the powers that be. During the summer the troops in this region have bean com= manded by Col. (Acting Brigadine) Wang Tien-tsung, whose—pres home is in Newchwang, but who ally hailed from the Mohammedan village of Chaohuo in this helen. passing it may be mentioned that in his younger days this worthy was a well-known bandit leader, with fa string of daring exploits to his "oredit." His reputation naturally proved sri asset when he entered the army, and his promotion has! been rapid. even for a time when every bandit dreams of a Marshal's baton in his equivalent of a knapsack, He is now a Cavalry Commander} in the 23rd Division of the Fong-tien forees stationed at Tamingtu, where no doubt he still maintains "that taking way" which so en-cleared him to the people of Tsangchow.
As the military were otherwise engaged, and could not be bothered with the irksome job of chasing Dandits, the Tsangchow Magistrate in the sixth moon despatched one of, his militia officers, Capt. Cheng, to Lichiapu in the neighbourhood. of Chaohuo with instructions to organize the "Min Tuan" (village iz Yogulars), as a defence against the bandits.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.