2,00) M China's Exeuses for Bandits but Not for Him ese _pqople and are striving to effect o fundamental revol which will free the people the yoke of the Tuchunate and the upt officials. But not Lao seeks simply a place for himself and his men. Ho is out for a job in the army. Wheo he comes to a city, it is rue that he loots the offciais and the rich. But he also loots the. poor and' burns the place, Therefore The goes without praise among those who find something in Chin.
banditry to praise.
VU: PEORIA HIA FOI BANDITS, Ta this connexion, one might just give @ summary of what those who praise bandits have to say in their favour. They that the country is in a worse ptighe than it has ever been before, that the officials and mili tary' ravage the countryside until farmers cannot reap whit they sow, until maidens are unsafe and eldest sons are without pro: spects of success in life. The Goverment in Peking does noth-tig to protect the people. The provincial officials enrich themselves at the expense of the people. The military live off the Int of the tand—and almost always are they strangers in the place. The whole country lives to support tee po Chilli and Shane tung, whose stir plus population scattered everywhere from Kuantung northward into the new ter tories on the borders of Sibe all proviners: are poor, feeding the sons two provinees, Therefore the people must rise But. the people no funds and are fore, they take to the hills and to the forests, there to carry. on guerilla amrfare against all off ials. When an official cannot be defeated, he may be, worn out: So, they kidnap the children of officiate and foreigners and holdup traing and commit other outrages, which result often in driv. ing the official from public life or making it difficult for him to pro. tect his province against invasion, He cannot become a bigger man than he is, because of internal troubles. Sometimes the bandit chiefs form sllianeos with politi cians and militarists secking pow-ex. They utilize these alliances those in power, out of When the ow. ones fight them. Occas-of them becomes er and (ries 4 work st the bandits—int he dors not live long. For the officials a to he trusted. Their word is without faith, and when bandit works with. the govern ment, he sooner er later finds hi food "loaded with glass or a fir the curt-yard of his amen, This was what to Sun Mei To avoid a vonilict with those who see ban the public print, vt that all that Appears in these paragraphs was told ime by responsible people, Chinese who ought t> know and understand such things—but. when ther they spoke from their hearts or for publication, only the. history of the next decade in Ching will tell, Iw accordanen with a warning from "the British Minister. the Government has ordered the military authorities of Kianglsu, Chekiang and Shanghai not to' use the railways for the trans portation of their troops. The jrailway*administration have been instructed to sco that this order cheved by: refusing to place the trains of the. Shanghai-Nanking Railways at the disposi of the
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