Peking, Aug. 30.
The "Yi Shik Pao" reports that in the Nanyang district, south of Loyang, the villages of Ch'aot'ouchai and Moufangchieh have been obliterated by bandits. The village of Kluciwan in the same locality has been raided and 1,000 persons, male and female, were killed or seriously wounded. Chih-yun, the Nanyang garrison commander, pays no attention to such trifling happenings.
A village named Chienlingtien in Honan has been raided by a chief named Tsung who took between 400 and 500 captives.
Northeast of Yuant'an in the Tanghohsien district the bandits are the only occupants of the country having completely supplanted the local population.
The Lincheng bandits who are not under "General" Sun Mei-yao's immediate control are kicking up their heels again in conventional fashion. 'T'ien Tuchun has therefore sent a certain Hsu ~Hung-pin into tle district with one battalion of infantry, one company of cavalry and four mountain guns, all of the 9th Brigade, to make a clean sweep of the tufet. The last report upon the movements of this little force was that it was on the way from Hsin-chuang to Tsaochuang and that it would proceed from Tsaochuang to Yihsien. This message was dated August 2'
The "Yi Shih Pao," which takes more interest in the bandit situation than any other paper in Peking, launches an editorial attack against Wu Pei-fu to-day. The editor thinks that if Wu Pei-fu had done his duty and had kept order in Honan and Shantung there would have been no. Lincheng incident and the foreigners would not have so much to talk about. He thinks that no man can hope to be a big figure in the country who does not keep order in his own bailiwick. He points out that when Tseng Kuo-fan started to put down the Taiping rebellion he did not aid any pretentious schemes for a national campaign until he had swept Hunan clean. Tseng's power in Hunan at that time was a mere fraction of what Wu_now controls in Honan. The editor sees no sense whatever in Wu's. suggestion that a commander-in-chief of the tufei suppression forces be appointed. He wants to know what all the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and countless officials, already at the command of the Chihli faction, are good for if they cannot keep peace in the countryside. It devolves upon them to keep order: and to ap-
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