The Archive · 1928

Mutinous Soldiers

Fuow Ovr OwN ConnesPonvenr Yushan, Ki., Feb, 10

The New Year has come and gone, but some of the festivities fare still going on, The shops are just beginning to open and are hoping for a better year of trade.

r's experiences will not be easily forgotten, for with trouble fu the city and Uandits tu the country 10 one had peace, In the twelfth moon there was a scare all round. Letters crime from Ihyany asking us to join in prayer that they might be protected from the bandits, who had joined forer with some of the defeated soldiers They said they had asked for soldiers to come to their assistance, soon we heard that numb had been sent to Thyang. Kueichi, und things wore quieter. At Huingfeng, another hsien cit they were specially bad. Soldiers were ordered to disband them, but returned to Kuangsinfu without having done anything. The reason soon appeared. The second and third "lien" were preparing to plunder all the big shops and get away with their booty, fighting the Officers if necessary. Two corporals, who found it out, went quietly to the colonel and told him about it, and that sane evening 30 of the ringleaders were arrested, and the rest disarmed,

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