Front Our Own Comesroweee Huchow, Che, Oct, 12, As cool weather approaches robbers, professional and amateur, are becoming active. Tales of farmhouses. being: forcibly entered and stripped. of valuables are reported from various places but the most serious condition appears to exist along the Chekiang-Anhwei border, where 300 Communist bandits from Anhwei took refuge in the hills near Hslaofeng, twenty mites west of Huchow. They fro well-armed and are said to have committed many depredations..
Local defence bands have had several. clashes. with them and one rather severe ght in which the defenders 150 in number, nearly were surrounded inthe hills, escaping only by desperate. endeavours. Many of, the defence group were wounded and two were captured by the bandits, One of the wounded was brought to Huchow General Hospital, where the surgeon, Dr, Patterson; found hnecessnry to amputate an arm. Forces are being gathered to crush the bandits, but according to present Information, the border communities still In' much danger.
in spite of the desire for progress which undoubtedly animates the city Rovernment and in spite of the New Life Movement which has been enthuslastleatly adopted, it must be said that old customs and practices still persist to such a degree as must at times give the progressives some uncomfortable pessimism. For me stance a man, alleging himself to be master of certain healing arts, dally. Takes hie stand near the corner.
important street not far from the Post OMe, and appears to be carry~ Ing on a thriving business, most its true, with poor dupes of count; men, who suffer his relnistrations, with a faith and n patience greatly; to be admired, however little they are deserved,
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