nary Who was Murdered aichow cutting words in their efforts to lay bare the immensity. of the crime that had been committed and to lay tapen the people the responsibility for doing all in their power to cleat tup the bandit situation. If the words spoken by the various officials who tok part in the ceremony are teally and truly put' into practice, there, will soon be seen' 'a very' great improvement in the situation in this whole district.
Some of the speakers—spoke {feclingly of the lif of Mr, Vinson. The spirit of his life land the character of his work were thrown out in bold relief against the dark background of his terrible fate. One of the speakers mentioned the attitude taken by Mr. son's children, whose mother died in who are thus left orphans through the tragic death of rheic father. Their attitude is not one of hate and a desire to take vengo-Jance on those who took their father's life, "The little nine year old daugh-for, when she first heard of what the bandits had done to her father, said that she honed every one of them would be killed right a Then later, after she had thought it over, and after she had shut herself' up in the room to meditate lover it, she said she had changed her mind and now she wanted all the bandits to repent and change from their wicked way. and become good men, and she prayed for them. There were many in the audience terrible thing eis, especially when. the is' taken by the robbers on those who have opposed them in Jany way. Many of these who are now living in Yang Gla Gi have felt the heavy hand of the bandits' vengeance' come down upon them. In fact, the grim raid of November seems to have been deliberately planned and carefully executed for he purpose of taking vengeance on the people of Yang Gla Gi for-their sending, out armed help against. the bandits when they were attacking an adjacent village, Little Joan Vinson's attitude toward those who 20 shamefully treated her tath desiring that they repent and come good useful citizens, in other words, showing the spirit of love even toward her enemies, was a new conception to many of that throng Who gathered to do honour to the memory of her father. After all, herein lies the secret of the abolition banditry and of war. Even the worst criminals cannot, tong with stand the power of genuine love.
Mr. Chen, the new Kuan-yuin-hsien maxirtrate, isa graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, and lig seems to be willing to go out and fight the robber. For several day before the. day' appointed fort memorial. service, he was out, in the Yang Gla Gi region, looking into the Landit situation and making plans for bandit. suppression, ficient and reliable district magist= Fates could be put in the various hsiens in the Haichow section, and given a long enough tenure of office to allow them to make and carry out bandit suppression plans, the situation would rapidly change for the better. The long promised unified action of the various military forces in the whole Haichow territory still remains an unfulfilled dream. far there is no effective ce-operation hyotween the National Military units the soldiers of the Salt Gabel, hsien soldiers, and the numero types of militia scattered all through the country.
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