On the Lith of last month two "soldiers induced a villager, named Lu Lam-chih, to act as middleman in w deal, selling a yun to a certain Mr. Chu, White the transaction was progress the official came upon them and apprehended the four men concerned.
The soldiers were immediately shot and, on the next market day, Lu was taken bound to an open place near the bridge. A fodder Knife was borrowed and Lu was made to kneel in front of it. (The fodder knife is about three feet in length, ft works on a swire!
groove made ina log of wood. One man puts handfuls of stray the knife, another works Tike a lever and chops the fodder for animal to eat. Ed).
Later news from Pengpu—The traps of Fan Chug-hsis, to the number of close on 20,000, have oppressed the districts. of, Meng-cheng and Koyang for move than three months. The Govern. ment had long ago decided disband most of these troops but they obstinately refused to obe, the order. New Gemeralissmo Chiang Kai-shek has ordered thres divisions of the first army to converge on Mengcheng from Honan wi. If the troops disarm and dix band, fighting will be averted, but it is rumoured they intend to put up a stiff fight. Moreover, a larg hand of robbers from Honan have deen terrorizing the district Taihwo, to the southwest of Meng-cheng. and delegates say that the city Ix already beleaguered. If the city falls and this bandit band, which is said to number nearly 10,000 men, makes a junction with Fan's dixgrurti¢d rabble the whole of North Anhui will be ablaze. However, itis possible that the rumours exaggerate the situation and that the bandits will not dare to face disciplined troops.
Fan's soldiers are such a disorzani and ragged crowd that it is antikely they have any stomach for fighting, Robbing peaceful ers is more to their taste, they fare unlikely to face powder and shot.
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