Hankow, May 28.
The police at Wuchang have made an important arrest. One of the most notorious of the "communist leaders in the Hanchuan-Mienyang district named Ye Tso-chen came down to Wuchang and brought with him five young women whom he was holding as captives. Rewards have been offered for his arrest and a police informer discovered where he was staying. Word was passed to the police and a sudden raid resulted in his capture and the release of his victims.
Several serious accidents have occurred in the last three days. A. motor lorry belonging to the Public Works Department of the City Municipality knocked down a man' near the Grand Hotel in the Sin-song Road and crushed his foot. And a car driving at a high rate of speed in the 7th Police District ran over man, The victim in each case was rushed to hospital and the driver arrested. A mad dog attacked a Chinese pedestrian at Tachihmen crossing over the rail way;. he was badly bitten and m was not taken to the hospital for \reatment he died of hydrophobia, Unfortunately the dog was not Killed, but made off into the fields.
Iready very hot get frayed. The the East Gate of Hanyang had consul sions. Friends suggested a visit to one of the hospitals, but the mother sent for a Taoist nun from Wuchang. On arrival the nun demand. ed a feo of $10 to cover a complete cure. The money having been paid, prayers were chanted and mystic characters were written and then washed off into water which was administered to the baby. After time the twtby died and the mother accused the nun of incapacity. The nun pithily summarized the sins of the babe in some previous state of existence which bad caused the death. Blows followed and it was some time before the two women were separated, the nun declaring fas she left that the faith of women was not what it used to be.
'A cow was the proximate cause of two deaths outside the East Gate of Wuchang, where two villages of farmers came to blows. A boy from the Yuan village let a cow idea into the fields of the Yeh village. The cow was seized and libeld as hostage. The Yuans went to fetch it home and the Yehs used force in repelling the attempt. A fight ensued and neighbours intervened. It was finally arranged that the cow should be returned, and the Yuans should give the Yehs a feast Then the Yuans changed their minds and refused to cook the feast, so the fight was resumed vigorously. Knives and implements were brought into play and the owner of the field into Which the cow had wandered was led. Now a lawsuit has begun which sill exhaust the resources of both sides before it is finished, and the theory that the Chinese are a peaceful people gets another bad Jolt.
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