Hankow, Sept, 10.
Te Garrison Commander has issued orders that recruiting for the army. is to be entirely suspended as information has been received that large number of Comaunists hav come to Hankow with the intention of: getting enlisted in the local forces that they may stir up trouble in the ranks Phe activities of the authorities against the Communists are being pressed with vigour. An-order just issued prohibits persons in govern ment, employ rom providing gua antess for men who have been arrested as communists, The seeretary-in one government office is reported to have been shot for offer-jing to guarantee a man wie was subsequently convicted as a Commun-4st, Tu fature no person accused of being a communist is to be released without standing a trial, but warming is given that when information proves to be'false the informer may be shot for his offence, 'A Ohinese detective, whose name! is withheld by the Chinese authorities, is just said to have covered himself with glory by affecting the arrest of three prominent agents of the Communists, "He got in touch with a man who was wanted by the authorities with the intention of affecting could not tackle the three.
Three da ago the three invited the supposed ally to go with them to distribute handbills among the hut-dwellers outside the railway. He accepted the invitation and trusted to his luck. It held good, for the four met a poste of police and the detective grabbed two of the men and veiled for help. The police responded fand two out of the three communists were toon under-lock and key. The detective then started on a hunt for the third man, who hal bolted, and is luck holding good met the man and collared him, Proprietors of transport companies Hankow have been suddenly suljected to an entirely new exaction Jon the part of the military authorities. Having examined the records for licenses issued, messages were! ent to each firm' ask for one, two or three lorries to bs se3 ithe railway at Chiackon. Anxious for trade the firms resp"rdcd promptly, the owner of two lo: in the zeal for dollars sending the ove instead of the one asked for.
On arrival at the railway the lor-los and their drivers were placed under guard till trucks were available for their transport for military service at Liuho in Honan. Coolies are also being impressed in large pumpers to handle military supplies here and up the line.
A. remarkable accident occurred] near Liuchiamiao yesterday. A man named Chiang, about 50 years old, had been out in the country arranging a betrothal, The family of the maiden provided him with an or-Jdinary sedan chair for the journey back to Hankow as no train seemed likely to come. As the bearers tramped along the railway embankment they heard a train approaching from behind and tried to furry down the slope out of Ginger. But the! top of the chair caught against a live wire and in the resulting upset Mr. Chiang was electrocuted and the two bearers badly burned.
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