wholesale Kidnapping affair! occurred at Chia Hsiang, a village about 20 Li to the south of ITsuchowon June 17 when.riore than 100] students, teachers ard residents the village were carried of by a large gang of bandits and taken to} a village in Hsiaohsicn, the neigh-houring district to Hsuchowfa. Fabulous sums are being demanded] for their ransom.
The native press says that a large} area to the west of Hsiaohsien on the Kiangsu-Anhai border, is infested with bandits and all the wealthy people have left. Farmers have been forbidden to harvest their crops if an "insurance feo" is no. pald to the bandits.. Only. recently, the native press says, $2,000 was paid to the bardite by the farmers of three villages before the latter! were allowed to harvest their crops. between Chunethan and Canton or Hongkong and wesithy oversea merchants ars considering the quez. tion of erecting hotels, department stores, tanks, dockyards, ete.
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