Word has just been received by the Rev. F. S. Joyce, local head of the China Inland Mission, that Shangtsaihsien, in the Juning-fu, has been looted and burned by the same band of brigands that took away the two Lung-Hai Railway engineers, and more recently the two missionaries of the Augustana Autumn crops have been more easily. "Set a thief to catch a Mission. The message said that thief" is ever the motto in this during the raid Mr. H. or less gathered in, and as soon as the first touch of forest comes the {country. An ex-robber chief who Ledyard, a missionary in the city, remaining crop of potatoes will had, until quite recently, been for was taken away as hostage. see the end of what the ground over a decade on the warpath and Mrs. Ledyard, her husband and produces this year in the way of terror wherever his footsteps child were the only foreigners in the staples for the people. The took him, until he capitulated—the city. She is left in great grief bean harvest has been a fairly was employed by the officials to of mind and writes that there is good one, although here and there roun up the robber leaders, who no way for her and the child to some have been disappointed. Not were once his own apprentices in get out of Shangtsai, as the whole much time is allowed to elapse the trade. On reaching their lair [country is infested. In her com-between the ingathering of one he found they had got away be-{munication she says, whether on crop and the sowing of the next fore him, but he laid hands on the good authority or not, that her unless weather conditions-are unleading man's wife and had her husband is now with the other favourable. Even with no rain to put in prison, thus holding her up four. foreigners in captivity. An help out, many simply drive their to ransom in the hope that the; appeal was immediately made to ploughs into the roots of the former husband would come in. He did Governor Feng, but his removal crops before the ground has time not catch him and continued his from Kaifeng is imminent and, as to get hardened in the hope that voiding with about 800 men. he himself asserts, even should he the sown seed may" catch some Latterly the robber desired to turn be remaining here, it is practically of the moisture hidden below. over 'a new leaf, at least for the {impossible for him to do anything Where experience*has shown that present, and offered to surrender, in that part of the province. unless the rain comes the first but only on condition that he and In the worst days of the old seed will come to nought, nothing his men be recognized as governirégime there was not such a state is done towards the next season's ment soldiers with himself as their jin the brigand world in this crops until rain makes it' certain leader. Present diplomacy can province as exists at present. that the grain will get a good bend itself to these conditions, White Wolf arose and devoured a start. and the local military leaders—and large portion of the province, but
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