munitions in Plenty for General Yen Hsi-shan $300,000 respectively. They' wer Instructed to rise against Marshal Feng Vu-hsiang and the Kuomin-chu, Marshal Chang Tso-lin. thus hoping to block the advance of Marshal Feng Vu-hsiung's troops on "Peking. They were promised control of Honan, Shensi and Kaneu, respectively, if they should succeed in defecting the Kuominchun forees there, Peking, Oct. 18. According to a despateh from Taiyusnfu, General Yen Hsi-shan recently ilismentled the arsenal e=vet~ ed by the late Marshal Chang Txolin at Tientsin and transferred the machinery to Taiyuanfu. Hence Taiyuanfu ix turning out more and otter munitions than before the: downfall of Chang Tso-li outer.
When plans were well under way for the rebellion, General Ma citculated. the following reports among the Moslems in Kansw:
1, The Kuominchun are anti-
Moslem. Unless the Mohammedans defend themselves, they will be Ariven out of the province by Feng's troops.
is the wish of Allah that every 60 years there should be a "big" rebellion and every 30 years! a "small" rebellion. This year ix actly 60 years from the Mohammedan revolt during the reign of Emperor Tung Chi, in the Ching Dynasty, and 30 years from the revolt in the 20th your of Emperor Mu. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, in a circular order to the and Municipalities, strictly various" Provincial Governments,
prohibits any increase of either the land tax or the farm.tax und the levying of extra surtaxes.
20,000, fanatic Moslems joined. him. Thousands of Chinese were macsaered and the. rebels looted, killed, and set fire to numerous villages they stormed the cities around Lianxehowt, which Hie about, 132 northwest of Lunchowf: The. rebellion also" spread. to. th south and southwest of Lanchow,, saith the result that there was great wrought in the districts of Hochow, snd, Titaochow.
The Chinese are the enemies of the Moslems. If 3 Moslem can Kell ten "Chinese, he will go to heaven after he di '4. Tu, case the Kuominchun are defeated: by the Fengtien troops, they will surely retreat towards Hansi, and there will be no place for the Moslems in that province.
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