The Archive · 1929

The Bandit Terror in Honan

A Moving Story from Miench'i ili: A Thousand Villages Laid Waste: Peasants Tortured (0 Reveal Food Stores Honan is, perhaps, the worst bandit-infested province in the whole of bandit-infested China. investigation committee has been visiting the district city of Micnch'ih, some 60 miles south of the Yellow River, and sends the following report of conditions there to the Chinese press. them. They had a quasi mili organiza ud numbered companies. Their headquarters were at Watevlily town and from thence they sallied forth plundering and kidnapping.

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