The Archive · 1915

A Retrospect of the White Wolf Raiders

WHAT CHINA LOST, WHAT SHE GAINED

From a Correspondent, The outstanding feature of the third year of the Chinese Republic has been the White Wolf raid.

That there should be any "pros" in the matter may be doubted by the many, but I think reflexion will show these not to have been small or few.

Before the year had got beyond the first ten days the White Wolf band—which had defeated band after band of soldiers sent to exterminate it for the period of about six months in Honan—bounded across the Peking-Hankow line, north of Sinyangchow. In quiet succession the cities of Kuangchow and Shangching in Honan were looted and partly burnt. Then, before the end of the month, the band crossed into Anhui province and visited the cities of Huoshan and Liuanchow, besides many market towns. Liuanchow was the most eastern point of the raid.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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