The country is still in a lawless. condition. The brigands have made arrangements with the ers that be, I am told, and now at set times the road is clear for convoys of soldiers to get through to Chengtu. People who travel im these convoys pay a dollar a time for each chair.
One of our missionaries was stopped the other day when he was riding horseback to visit an outstation. He escaped by putting his horse through them at full speed. He thinks they wanted to take him.
evangelist's little son hag been carried off and his captors say they want $500. Is it a "try, on?"
I hear that Lu Ch'ao when he was here stored great quantities of material, and now General Lai is busy manufacturing ammunition with it. The stories that go round would seem to be incredible if there were not so much reason to believe them. It is said that the various generals divided all Chéngtu supplies between them.
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