Militia and Troops to be Held Responsible Owing to large number of armed robberies and shooting affairs which have taken place lately in Nanking and caused considerable alarm among the people, who are complaining that the police and troops are unable to cope with the situation, Gen, Chiang Kai-shek has ordered the Nanking Commissioner of Police and the Garrison Commis sioner to instruct their subordinates to take more care in future, because they will be responsible for any future occurrences, Gen, Chiang has ordered (1) that after 7 o'clock at night all troops hall be kept in barracks and only those with passes will be allowed Teave; (2) that additional troops and police shall control the roads and ce-operate in the maintenance of pence and order; and (8) that all Yodging houses shall be searched regularly for evil characters. seems plain that there is some one southern part of Kiangsi, who have had some years in Moscow. These are to be met with in several disguises, but T am informed always ynned. They have not, so far as an be learned, made any open move. In the line of Communism, but it is almost sure that they are directing the whole thing.
Excepting for these troubles from Communism, the whole district semins to be settling down, and we look for a time of quiet in the near future. Communism has many sympathizers here and, were it not for the heavy hand of the law, the whole south of the province would bbe in a Red terror,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.