Last year, Chang and Chu appeared suddenly in Shantung, bought up a number of bandit gangs, and announced a,"rebel government." For months they looted and burned the villages and towns of northeast Shantung, while. the government armies sought in vai to drive them out. They made a shambles of a vast district, which has not yet recovered.
The government armies finally drove them into a corner, and it was reported at the time that both were "permitted to escape." Chang went to Japan, where he still lives. Nothing definite was heard of what happened to Chu until the report of his death.
After Chang had got away, Chu and his bandit bodyguard " shut themselves up in a walled city of 50,000 inhabitants. Here they loot and burned at will with the government army outside the gates. When they were finally defeated, the government troops found the city an absolute ruin,"with the wells choked with the bodies of suicides.
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