Two further cases of armed robbery by soldiers have occurred. The men may possibly be no longer in the army, but, if so, the fact that they still have their rifles, is very significant, In the first case, a farmer returning to his home beyond the railway terminus, about midnight on September attacked by two soldiers bayonetted in several places cries brought out his relatives. and the men decamped, but not before they had secured '$23 which the farmer was carrying.
In the second ense, a small farmhouse further in the country was entered by five soldiers speaking the Northern dialect, They were not satisfied with the amount they discovered and, before leaving the house, shot the second son of farmer dead, The _situation serious, but it is dificult to what protection can be given to the farms scattered over the plain behind Hankow,
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