T have just, made a "trip to Yongcheng ard 50 li beyond, the worst infested robber section of this region.
T have often promised to visit the market town of but on arrival at the city would hear that robbers were cither in that immediate section or had just left. When I arrived this learned that the Hsien official kept that morning with 200 soldiers and about 70 Hongchanghuei men A few days before I was there the robbers took a journey from west to cast some three or four li north of Soahu and burned a row of villages and killed some hundreds of people, carrying away many mere. This is right near where I reported in November, 1924, the destraction of a batch of six' or seven villager. In one of the largest of these was one of our dest country schools, and the teacher and several boys, as well as some 300 others were—killed, This occurred in one of the finest farming sections I have seen. There was at Soahu a deputy from Kaifeng to inspect the opium tea it, which used to mean to dcstroy it where they found it, but now it is to assess the amount of taxes on it, I heard that this deputy was pressing local official to guarantee a definite number of mou of ground—400,000—for the growing of opium. They were fixing the taxes at $5, $6, and $8 per mou, The ordinary regular tax this land is not over 25 to 50 cents Per mou! n_work here is very successful, especially i country places.' In the city, where our large compound sheltered over 2,000 refugees during the bandit eceupaney in December, and where Dr. King and Miss Barratt were unsparing in their efforts to care for them, there have been such large crowds attending Sunday services that we have had to enlarge the chapel place. To-day, the citizens, in appreciation of the missionary sei vices, are placing a monument in the compound which take the terra of a large stone tablet engraved with a record of their kindnesses, to clear the rebbers out for while yo that an investigation could!Tadies. ard an inset picture of the two|ese press "to Peking, May 20, The Danish airman, Lieutenant Botved, leit Yucheng at ten o'clock. this morning for Peking but landed at Machang owing to his gasoline Teaking. He was sain forced down for the same reason on the Tientsin race course, Lieutenant Botved, who owing to radiator trouble was forced to descend at Chichuang, about ten miles northeast of Yucheng, while on his way to Peking from Shanghai at the cond of last month, will now probably. remain at Tientsin for a couple of days to effect thorough repairs, after which he will proceed to Peking, Taikoo, and Tokyo, fying home from Japan via Siberia Macistrare—"What gave you the impression that the prisoner was the worse for drink?"—Constable—"Well, sir, he was engaged in a heated argument with a bus driver." "But that does riot prove anything." "Well, sir, there was no bus driver there at a."
Nor even the picture of Sun Yat~ zen is to be permitted in the rooms of Students at Tunse Chi University, an engineering and medical college at_ Woosung, where recently all pupils professing to be adherents to the Kuomintang Party have been ordered "to quit. The Kinngsu Commissioner of Education has likewise forbidden the study of Kuomi tang literature. "It appears that the students do not mean to take this lying down, They assert their Tight under the Constitution to reals whatever books they please or become affiliated to any political party, Both sides are reported in the Chin. have gone mes
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