Peking, Apr. 20.
Two highly successful bandit leaders in northern Honan are building a fine new temple to express their gratitude to the gods who have helped them in kidnapping several hundred wealthy Chinese and getting rich ransoms, according to a Chinese traveller' who has seen the temple. Tt is being erected half-way between the towns of Wulingchen and Tsaiyuan, Tablets are being placed in the temple, explaining why it was built, and why the donors were so grate: ful.
"I was first incredulous when I heard this tale," said the travel Jer, "but T had' to pass along thi route, unsafe as it is, and I visited the temple myself, It is perfectly evident that the highwaymen who provided the money for the temple Jock upon their profession as being entirely legitimate and having the full sanction and support of their deities. The people in the district also appear to see nothing unusual jin the act."
The bandits have such complete control of this district, the traveller declared, that they are a government in themselves, Ho was able to pass through the region only by employing og escort a retired bandit leader, who Held the respect of the robbers. Although the towns of: Walingehen and Tsalyoan are only 10 miles apart, business men in the two towns have not dared to visit each other for a year, because, robbers fall upon them as soon as they.pass through the gates in the, city walls United Press. ho received news from the Kad village that his mother, his wife and his two sons had been arrested and shot by the communists. He was also told that the communists intended to track him down, Early yesterday morning, he. told his friends that he would seek dil ferent hiding-place at Wuchang, but fon the way across he jumped off the ferry into the river and disappear ed, His friends later received letter which he must have posted on his way to the ferry, saying that hho intended at once to rejoin his family in the land beyond the gray Protection for Kui The travelling Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Liu Fang, has arrived here from Kivkiang, While there, he assured one of the missionaries that Kuling will be jwately protected during the Wg seaton, He announces that there are six matters claiming his attention here and three of these have already been the subject of a }good many articles in the vernacular press—the accident in which Paymaster McBride was involved, the taxes alleged to be due from the Jardine Estate, and the accident in which a car driven by " foreigner }Ailled a Chinese woman. The other three do not seem to have been be-Tore the public at all: the death of a man named Wang Hai-lin, actions of a Mrs, Feng-chang in-Volving the public safety, and a case against the Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. After these cases have been dealt with, the Commissioner expects to proceed to chang ani Changsha,
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