[Soldiers Find Magic in the Blood of Black Dogs From en OWN Connesronvest Suchien, N. Ku, May 6.
Suchien is looking up in the world! We have gun fired every day from. one of the street towers 12 0° clock. We have been having our spring dust storms and everyone has welcomed a heavy rain storm. The country wag very dry, the wheat, though good, was below its usual height at this time of the year, and this rain will bring on both' wheat, corn; and beans.
The country round about, thanks to the soldiers' efforts to round up the tufei, has enjoyed comparative quiet, though, within the last. few days, there ate rumours of a band some 4,000 strong about 100 Li from here, just across the border in Shantang.
Some time since we heard often of the "White Flag Society" originally started by the peasants to protect themselves from the tufei.
reports ave true have dee ed the (ujei against the soldi Report hay it they fear the blood of black dogs; and in the north county, one is told, the story of how the soldiers killed 100 black doge, and drank their blood, that they might be able to defeat the members of this Society, Your correspondent has just re turned from a village about 100 ti from here. In the beginning of the year it was impossible to stay buying tickets, The management there! In broad daylight the tufet their. victims. into the a rail by which ticket purchasers freet of the village. Now, a camp may enter one by one to the ticket ut soldiers are stationed there, and Instead the window ix kept Gye talked off by everyone as "Gu nly are polite me very strict.
One caught out at night, his tone car cut off, and he wag dismissed from the' regiment, This is the sory the villagers tell, and they have nothing but good words of the men, When one hears the awful stories of the tufei'e doings, one does not wonder they—appreciaty these soldiers, I heard of one home where the family had fled, leaving an old woman to look after the house, Mad at having lost their prey, they ordered her to boil a cauldron of water, and pug her in
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