Tragic Appeals to Nan ing from Anhui, Shantung, Hupeh! and Kiangsi: The People in Deep Water and Hot Fire Tha veorsanizntion of Ube National Government in Nanking, the appointment of heads of Departments and all the other evidences of Progress seem tu have had little effect on the condition of the country AL large.
The Chinese press is largely taken up with reports of the terrible scourge of banditry bread areas.
'A few items from tone dus"s news will illustrate this point, from its correspondent people of Fuyang in deep water and hot fire and not come to our in Penzpu, the large military entre where the' Peking-Tientsin railway erosses the Huai river in Anhui, Certa' es from the city of Puyang, same province, have Addressed a petition to the governs ment whi "The bandit terror Fuyang thas assumed large dimensions, the people are trampled into "the earth, We pray that you would Aespatch Commander Hsia ome with the speed of fire and destroy those pests. We also beg that you will order General Yoh Wei-chuin to restrain his troops from robbing the peasantry. the 11th year of the Republic iyangg was looted by the Honan bandit, Yang Lao-ren, and the entire city was burned. Twelve thousand people were rendered homeless and the loss was estimated at $30,000,000, We have not yet recovered from that disnstor, but last year rebel sold~ Jers from Shantung quartered themselves upon us_and took by force anything that they desired. aid ete.?"
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