For registration purposes there are seven sderetaries, and up-to-date over five companies, or 600 men, have been enrolled. While this is being completed, the other outstanding points are being settled conference both in the bandit area and at Tsacchuang. Yesterday there were four representatives from the hills here, Tsu Tsu-sung, Sun Han-ching, Tsu Kuo-tiang and Chi Chin-kiang. These four saw the Deputy Tuchun and the Government delegates in the morning, and left again for Paotzeku in the afternoon.
The bandits are quite at home at Tsaochuang now, and whereas it was at first difficult to induce them to allow a photograph to be taken, they ar¢ ready to submit to the attentions of as many cameras as can) be brought to bear upon them. They will raise their hats, gently sway their fans, and smile broadly in the most approved movie manner.. The local storekeepers have incidentally been successful in doing a little polite banditry, though as the gentlemen from Paotzeku were' using! stolen money, they could hardly be said to be the losers.
believed here that the bandits have requested that no more aeroplanes shall be sent up to re connoitre for there have been no, flights since Sunday. The appearance of these planes, together with the presence of the Military Commission, did not tend to increase the bandits' confidence in themselves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.