Robber bands are still many and active. Recently I met a man whose father they had roasted to death, and a few days later in the same place a man, whose mother they had shot while here in the city, and who is a missionary, while travelling in the north was relieved of $300 by armed and mounted gentry. At Pachiao, about 10 days' ago, an attack was made by armed robbers, who broke into the inns and robbed travellers of all their possessions. I stayed there the following night, but I had great difficulty in finding a room, as the people were afraid to receive guests lest a second visit should be made by the robbers.
But these are not Shensi's greatest enemies, the present distress is neither solely nor supremely due to these robbers nor to the partial failure of last year's crops—one year's crop is sufficient for the needs of three,—but to the organized brigands whose only business is to crush the people and fill their private coffers.
Lou Chia-na has been appointed Shanghai delegate to the {nternational Lawyers' Conference which will be held in Peking on October 23 to 25.
Tue trouble between the students and the faculty of Meiji University, Japan, which -has peep dragging through the last few weeks culminated on May 30 in a clash with the police when they were called into the affair by the school authorities. Several students were seriously injured in the fighting, according to the Japanese papers, and another student, who challenge ed the strikers when they demanded he leave a lecture room, was badly beaten. Following the clash with the police the strike leaders demanded that the police withdraw from the school premises, which it is said was finally done in order to prevent further fighting.
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