Another sign of famine is the outbreak of brigandage in a neighbourhood which has been very free from bandits. Already several farms have been attacked and looted by bands of starving famine-sufferers but apparently there has een no use of firearms.
'A barrowman returning from Kuangsi after selling his beans was murdered and robbed on his way home.
From all accounts the really deserate time for all these famine areas will be between the Chinese New Year and the gathering of the wheat harvest in the fourth Have just received word that at one place where the Kuanyin earth has ben dug out the hillside has fallen in burying seven or eight men, three of whom have not yot been dug out.
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