Hankow, Aug. 23.
The Japanese residents in Changsha, who have been taking Tefage in Hankow since the recent communist outrages, have decided to return to Changsha in view of comparatively normal conditions there.
It is seid that the refugees are leaving on board the str. Ganko Maru to-morrow—Rengo.
Informeticn regarding the recent! activities of the reds in the neighbourhood of Nanchang has been received from a foreign correspondent, who gives it as his opinion that if the Government troops really attacked them in earnest, they would easily be successful. in most ases, however, the men sent' against the Reds are not paid and have no fighting spirit, so they low a few days in the rear of bandits, thus giving them an incentive to loot further villages.
The Reds that were reported as threatening Nanchang appear to be in a band several thousand strong. but they are short of rifles and have very little ammunition and could thus easily be attacked. The Reds put appearance at "Changsha but being afraid of government) troops did not approach Nanchang, Eoing across instead to Ka: sub: sequently visiting Fengsi Anyi, Shangkao, Ifeng, Suishui they did not they hed already looted it! in May last.
This band of Reds has not killed or burned to any great extent, but: while they have robbed the rich they have given to the poor. In all places except Shangkao they occupied mission houses, taking some of the contents and throwing some out into. the street for the mob to pick up. At Anyi they occupied the mission house for three days, did not kill anyone and only burned one house. They did not hont for the christians and no church members suffered harm, After they left, the town official returned and the merchants asked that a house to house search be made in the hope of getting back some of their goods. This was done, and some people were found to have a quantity of stolen property, and. were shot in consequence.
This action caused others to be: alarmed, so they commenced to take back goods that had been stolen' from the mission house, While this was in progress, tegular troops who had been sent to exterminate
of them occupied the mission house, bandits arrived, and over. und it is wondered whether they will Leave behind them as much the Reds did.
The people in the district are not! being deceived by the Red propaganda, and are longing to be delivered dram the oppression that they now suffer. From all appearances,- a definite campaign by the right kind of troops would have an immediate effect in restoring peace to the countrys
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