The motor-ears running between Kueiteh railway station and Pochow have many ups and downs. One of the "downs" came last week for one car which did not stop soon enough when hailed by soldiers at Was hsiangehi, a village about half way on the road. The car was peppered with bullets and two occupants wounded, one poor fellow getting a bullet through both legs half way between knee and ankle, which fractured terribly the bone of one leg and badly injured the other. The dear soldiers do love to hear their guns go off and no doubt it is especially nice to shoot at something that cannot shoot back, Feng Yuchsiang's Recruits Feng Vu-hsiang was still having bands of recruits marched oft about daily from here to the way station up to the last day in February. Now, however, some if rot all of his recruiting agents have been recalled to Peking. He must have taken at least 10,000 men, probably more, out of this district Christmas and even in these densely populated parts the supply of men such as he needs is getting thin. for very many recruiting periods have been held here in the last few years. One recruiting agent found things far from easy sailing and he is going back to Peking minus three front teeth. This is because an irate father smote him in the mouth with a rick when he was trying to induce a young farmer to join up and taste the glories of army lif We badly need rain, for the winter wheat looks very poorly indeed. Several times it has looked as though the needed showers were [coming but each time it has passed
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