Increasing Seriousness the Editor of the "Norru-Cinwa Darty News!"
Sim—Recent letters which I have received from my home at Ningpo point to the increasing seriousness Jet the kidnapping menace In the Tural distelels. The armed Kidnap-ere are terrorizing the defenceless Willage people. The male members, fineluding small children, "of any. family with some small savings are danger of being seized for ransom.
one ease, poor man, seized at nis "home by the kidnappers, was permitted to. go. away for one or two hours to borrow some money satisfy the Taiter's greed. After waiting for all this time, the ide Jnappers nally Jefl, when the money way handed over fo them The poor people in the rural dis tricts are in q dilemma. If they move to live In the city districts, they feannot afford all the expenses. If they remain at their ancestral homes they cannot sleep peacefully at night.
While the life and property of the farming people are becoming Me creasingly unsafe, they are obliged to pay all kinds of new taxes to the lemeials who are supposed to protect them, "In rural distrieis at Ningpo, ell farmers whose income exceeds $100 a year are required to pay the income tax. Their ancestral buildings, which they have owned in some ses for several generations, are now also subject to taxation.
From the newspapers I read Genral Chiang Kaleshek's stirring Sddress calling the University. and [Middle School students to serve in the rural districts during the summer vacation, General Chiang is haps ignorant of the rural condi Nous in his own native city of Ningpo. I feel sure he will agree with that something must be done at wi, June 22,
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