Bandits as Soldiers From Our Own Correspondent Kueiyang, Kuei., May 13.
Miss Kemp, of the Geographical Society of Scotland, in company with her niece Miss (Dr.) Edwards, lately passed through this city on their way to Changteh and Changsha. They have travelled a good deal in the northwest of the province and report that not less than' 95 per cent. of the land under cultivation is devoted to poppies for opium, 'The ladies visited some of the principal places of interest in and near the city and what they saw only made them regret they could not stay longer in these Terge military escort because the arts. When they left they had' a
robbers are still bad.
The work of enlisting the robbers as soldiers in the hope of reforming them is still going on, but even the authorities do not seem satisfied in their own minds with this way of stopping the robbers, for orders have been sent to Hung-Kiang for a number of soldiers to return to Kueichow for the pur. pose of putting down the robbers between here and Chenyuan.
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