Good Rains and Suppression, of Bandits aoa A ComssroxDext Teingkiangpu, Ku., Bar, 4
We have just experienced thi heaviest rainfall within a fow daya which we have had in thia section for over three years and, asa result the country is iw splendid condition for the sp planting and the Grand Canal already' risen several feet and wilt probably rise more, as the results of this same rain in' Shantung mako their local appearance, Things ave politically quiet on tha surface here, the local troops, part of the 18th independent Brigade, have their headquarters here ang. have also occupied the section no of here evacuated by the 49U division, There were rumours thal the 13th Brigade had orders tal disarm the 49th Division but, witha assistance from troops in, the Heuchowfu sector this would havel been difficult. It is reported that ai ming of the 4008"
tually took place at Santsahey where the Lung-Hai railway crossed" the Grand Canal, but this has ad" been confirmed locally. i Generally speaking, the county; quiet from bandits, As compar ed with three or four years age conditions are one hundred per cent. better. For one thing, pandita have had much less access to arms and munitions than they formerly, had when the old 3rd Division was located here. The troops of thd Central Government have also melt and defeated the bandits in several real fights during the past twa, years, al On the' other hand, small groups, six or eight, or ten men, armed with automatics, make raids fron time to.time on launches, between hero and Chinkiang, and they hava on several occasions recently held! ap local buses. Only night deferd launches passing nine. li this side of Kaoyu were. stopped by, bandits and the Pasying-Nanking} launch was in the hands of the Yundits when the Tsingkiangpat dound: lannch from Chinkiang pass~ ed. 'They. did not. dare to stop to. investigate' so_we have heard riy. details.of the: raid, opium consumption. There are
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