The Hunan Bandits The mows which appears in another column that a mob of ten thousand bandits and revolted soldiers are marching on Changsha, and that they are superior to the local) military, will probably cause no sur. prise to any of our readers; for it all of a piece with the general situation. It is well over a year since the Nationalists took possession of all China south of the Yangtze and while it may be argued that they have been pre-Gceupied elsewhere to such an extent that the small matter of 10,000 bandits being at large might very well escape immediate attention, the fact does remain that - the same government which permits such a thing to happen is worrying about treaty revision. What hideous suffering these bandits are leaving their trail we shall probably not know for some time to come. But this same government which is striving for diplomatic "face" with offers of adequate protection for! foreigners in China apparently ean-not guarantee safety to its own people, And here another thought rises: is it fair to expect a government, which bare-facedly—filches foreign property and subjects it to spoliation, to apply a different] standard of morality to the governmnee of the people aver whom they. now have power?
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