Kuling has been visited by armed gang of. robbers, who attacked the police station and killed a sergeant. They subsequently held up some of the wealthy Chinese contractors who live in Kuling, and extorted money from them. They appear to have done little looting and did not} enter the estate. Some of the robbers have been caught in Kiukiang and shot.
It is estimated that 5,000 coolies every year find employment earrying up and down the mountain, For these men there is no employment this year and there ig little doubt that the whole of Kuling, both foreign and Chinese, will be visited during the coming summer and autumn by gangs of these coolies, who will go from house to house, pilfering until the place has been looted clean to the Inst scrap.
The post of Superintendent of Customs in Kiukiang has achieved Popularity. The salary is Tis, 2,000 a month. After the fight on board a British steamer of the late Superintendent, Liu Hao, Lin Ts0- a Communist, came down from Hankow and took up the post. A. few days later, a man named Ting arrived and claimed the post, stating] that Lin was an imposter, and now a third man has arrived, named Chang, stating that both the it two are imposters. They all are appointed by different parties in Hankow who ate fighting for the spoils of office.
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