Another matter which has help-to fill the columns of the while it is completely muzzled On national questions is the right of the St. Columban Mission at Hanyang to hold a part of its property there. Of course the intelligent reader knows that these ye all journalistic stunts, but lore is no question that they are doing a good deal to stir up ill-will. It fs deplorable that no editor is bold enough to point on that the standard of probity observed by large business houses and missions a high one, and that this is a time when good-will must be eultivated, The Provincial Government has issued a warning against the purchase of foreign goods, on the. ground that excessive imports inter-fore with the sale of native goods tand that the outflow of wealth to other lands is one of the causes of the present decline in business. This Government also has to face the serious problem created by the constant arrest, of political offendfers and the consequent overcrowding of the gaols. It i there are 100. communi the 600 prisoners -Wachang and as the prisoners are of placed in separate cells these communists have managed to stir: up others. Yesterday the prisoners started a' rumpus about the condi tion of the prison and the governor had hard work to restore order.
Too Many Armed Robberies Armed robberies are still far too frequent. Men who failed to secure any loot from a large boat anchored in the Han fired as they rowed: away and injured the laopan. Two armed men held up @ man near the River Bank Station of the Kinhan Railway and were about to shoot "him because he only had $8 in his possession when some armed police effected his rescue. An unfortunate experience awaited a gentleman fifty yours who started off with wife and daughter to worship the Goddess of Morey in the Buddhist Monastery at Hanyang on hor birthday. He was not sure of the way and wheat in a lotely part of [the road was stopped by eight men, in.plain clothes and two armed men in uniform, All three were rudely searched and $56 taken' from the gentleman and" gold. ornaments worth $400 from the ladies. The robbers: then decided to take the outer clothing of all three. At this the ladies yelled, tut cotton wool was forced into their mouths and kept in place by bandages while the clothes were taken. Having tied the arms and legs of their victims: the robbers departed and some time elapsed before the three were found and freed.
Communist Outrages 'Communist atrocities' are being' reported. from many places. The magistrate of Hienning has been captured and decapitated. Large towns like Tungeheng and Shayar have been entered more than once. The band that is operating near Hwangpei recently demanded a large sum from each of two large villages and when the demand was not met cut off the hands and feet of the richest man in each place. The Hwangpei communists "have also adopted a new plan to consolidate their position. Each group af- 100 families in the countryside must provide eight youths and three maidens between 15 and 18 years of age. The youths must act as spies on the militar police and the girls must visit the villages propagandists and to carry messages. These eleven young folk are also hostages for the hundred families and are to be killed if anyone from these families betrays communists,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.