The responsible military authority in Ma-ch'ang is a stof officer octonging to the 28th Brigade, whose commanding offer, Col. Ydan is stationed in Tientsin. Two appeals from the people of Tsang-have been made to Gen. Fu and, in both instances, ry and June of this year his fdccision was that the ferry-boat should be returned to its lawful Jownors. However, these—instruc-have been persistently ignored n Ma-ch'ang. The staff officer there, it appears, has taken to himaelt a concubine from among the local beauties and it is. her relations, a set of—hard'isted bullies, who, relying upon their protector, are thwarting the course Jot justice by every means in their power. Their ingenious methods have 0 far been very successful land one wonders how long their scandalous extortions will be pexmitted to go on unchecked. When the first appeal to Gen. Fu was granted, it was impossible to move the boat to Tsangchow, as the Grand Canal was in the' grip of winter. When the spring thaw Jeame and it looked as though thei to slip. from. thei Ma-ch'ang fraternity be "bridge," one on either had brain-wave and sunk" two
Tsangchow ferry and ned that it could not possibly be released, Lagt year it should be noted, when the matter was placed in the intermediaries—the Chamber of Commerce at Tang-kuan-
Van, a few miles north of Mach'ang—the decision was that the people of Tsangchow should send Jdown a smaller boat to take the place of the other. Two hundred dollars wore raised and a boat, Kanchow, Kiangsi Sept. 30, Bandits are still the plague of the whole district, When Chu Deli was in the Ningtu district some time ago, he raised and train. ed a large' mimper of local bandits, Jand these seem to have been apt, scholars, for, since he and his Big following have taken to another province, these apprentices have. deen doing their best to imitate their superior in all things, and doing, it well, Just recently, band of guards in the west were enjoying themselves in a certain town, when suddenly a troop.o€ bandits arrived, took prisoner six. teen of these guards, and the others lind to fight their' way out, buts eventually teathed the hsien again, The Mission premises in Ningtw again occupied and the mission tries have been promised a room, gr two Ju, their own house in" the fared" very" badly. The. mission future, Nanfeng not long
houses were not burned, but enough: damage was done to property, while life was taken freely, The rooting out of these bandits is no means an easy job, but it will be accomplished in the near future, we are sure. To those who are Jarmehair exit ies it looks easy, bute in reality it is far from it, We hear that motor roads have. made great headway at Nanchang, and we actually saw a photograph of the arrival of a motorcar ati Changshe, and are assured that the road is being continued south and will reach here some time, One wonders if there is really anything. in it as we have been deceived 40 any times, Business hero is. still very flat exchange is such that business mam fare rather seared to order good the high water season is again, gone, and transport is very uncer. tain, The other cities in the south and west have had a rest the last fow months from brigands, or is it that! they have scrap at them clean, a have no amore hopes of "rai the wind"? For whatever reasomg? they have not boon molested, and the bitsiness. community are grates ful. If only' the pence could be preserved for about five years, the whole district would again be in a flourishing condition, The farmers are again getting into order, and will soon have things normal once more, but PEACE is the one thing. needed, Schools have all. started, and it is said that an improvement educational methods. is notices able, If this is so, then all wilt be pleased, but, there has been such a decline those past few years that, wwe take things with a grain of salt, A United Demand for Protection of Temples X.GON. SHBCIAL service Peking, Oct. 9.
Tibetan lamas, Mongolian Bud-@hists, and Chinese Taoist and Buddhist priests in Peking have banded together to defend their temples from the proposed confiseation by Kuomintang reformers who want to turn them into schools.
After a series of smaller parades, three thousand priests, representing all the principal religions except Christianity, marched to the city hall and begged the mayor to protect the rights of the religious orders. despatched, with the result that oth are now in the hands of the Ma-ch'ang gang. After the second forder from General Fu in June to return the ferry, the resourceful bullies, still abetted by their military patron developed a counter-offensive handed in a petition to the in Tientsin,—stoutly that the bone of con tention had mever been the property of Tsangchow and that the whole business was a clever fraud. To ive colour to their plea, the large eauved Chinese characters at either end of the ferry-boat, clearly showing that it was 'a pablic ferry, belonging to the Ts'ai Shih Kow'in Tsangchow, were hacked out!
"The Livelihood of the People"
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