In a recent letter T reported on the activities of the Red-spear society in the Chengchow district, These fanatics seem to have similar ideas to those held by the boxers in 1900. They believe that they are immune from bullets, but that if they have the rifles they can do very deadly execution with them. Acting under ideas they have come into ion with the soldiery just west} of Chengchow. Somewhere near tthe station of Tielu, on the Lu they cut the line and awl arri sult of the fight was a sad one for the Redspenrs. It is said that! 400 of them were killed and about! hundred captured among whom was the leader. This man _and several of the others were later executed in Chengchow.
The pity of this is that the members of the Redspear Society ar:
most cases country fellows, or: ginally assembled to protect their homes from bandit raids.—Never Previously have they played such a foolish part as they are now performing. In the Tungheu district south of here a very large party' of the Redspears met a company The Pony—"I don't see how you can ever have expected me to get over it and I'm sure I don't know how T even got through it."
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