National Scheme to Wrest Jehol Away by Means of Roving]
Bands of Leaderless Soldier; Loot as the Reward com Roowey Gutaeer Peking, Dee With the earliest spring an effort wilh be made to dislodge Tangy Jin, the Fengtien general at Jehot, through the employment of hordes of leaderless remnants of the Various armies which are now devastating the border districts of Suiyuan, Charhar and Jehol. A former officer of Chihli troops. in support Tang Vu-lin, but will be glad to see him broken. asked this chieftain if the hordes approved of unity under Nanking, and he replied that they reflected "an intense anti-Nouthern hatred which was growing throuhout the North, which he believed must lead to revolt against the the Fengtien army, whose 12,009 well equipped troops in the Fengtien army, are now bandits in the Chahar mountains, east of Kalgan, called on th writer to-day Announce his appointment as Nationalist division commander the army preparing to oust Tang Discussing frontier conditions 2 said that at* least 300,000 armed men were at a loose end in a country too poor to rob with a profit. The Nationalists are offering commissions in the Jehol campagi, but vith not pay for either officers or men, expecting them, my informant said, to collect their remuneration from the captured Despite the character of this force ani the knowledge that it will be a Durden, the citizens of Sehol ave already. extending it a welcome, my visitor told cause the occupation of Vu-lin, which severs communi on, is insufferable, and the burden fof tuxes so heavy' that the crop ix sold at a loss in camp with opium front other districts, 'A tax was announced last spring of $4 per mow on poppy land dat an additional $9 per mow, military tax, was Imposed at harvest time.
The outlaw hordes also believe that they have the assurance that Chang Hsueh-liang will not revolutionary government.
Northern units, whether troops the Nationalist flag or temporary bandits, sought—only bases to support their organizations until someone assumed the leadership against the southerners, Me then confessed that his business in consulting the writer, before rejoining his horde in the mountains was to ascertain the foreigners' appraisal of frequent persistent rumours of Wa fu's return to the field, and of the story that retired - officials in Dairen were heavily financing him, ete. He said the hordes had lost faith in Fengtien after the evacuation, but all were ready to take ondges without pay if Wa Peicfo reappeared.
The silk-clad chieftain then ingenuously pleaded for foreign sympathy, alleging that the 300,000 were out iienorant of interna Dut honest military tufei who never interfered with foreign travellers when recognized as such, and never looted, but protected mis-
The fact that the Chinese has been robbed Unt cry has mow. become profiler cee gone of a. discreditable Wht" inetdental to the present state China anywhere.
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