The whole trouble seems to have been that the victims preferred Join up with Mi Chen-piao, who commands the old I-Chuin brought back, from the Jehol territories and now. stationed between Kaifeng and Chengchow, rather than with the Shensi troops as so many of the fother bands have done. Terms had been arranged with Gen. Mi's agen's ind these poor fellows thought they were on their way to Kaifeng. Un-[fortunately for them the Shensi Commander at Kueiteh station con sidered he needed their rifles and decided to appropriate them, by murdering their owners.
Some ten days ago a band of Wa Pei-fu's old warriors turned up near Kueiteh railway-station from Ts'ao-cheo in Shantung, where they had been lying low. Their position there was evidently getting awkward and they wished to be taken into Gen. Kuo's army, but the Tupan refused [the latter permission to enlist them. Six or seven hundred of these men were surrounded by the Shensi men and surrendered their arms without fighting. _They were then given a dollar apiece take them to their homes after all their other possessions had been. [taken from them, Probably his-sucjcess in this venture led the Shensi commander to think that it might just as well be repeated.
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