Canton, Oct. 28.
German consulate properties at Pakhoi, in southern Kuangtung, and at Hoihow on the island of Hainan are to be disposed of by private ale. Since the World War, neither has been used for consulate purposes. Both have been rented for some time, that at Pal hoi to the Salt Gabelle:
For more than two months nothing has been heard from either! lof the two German missionaries who, in August, 1929, fell into the hands of East River bandits who made a sortie into the Kaying di: trict, Messrs. Fischle, Killper and Walter spent some time in captive ity while the Basle Mission was parleying with the bandits, and success Was attained in the ransom: ing of only one. Mr. Walter was released last June.
Because the captors have constantly raised their price, coming up from $5,000 to $50,000, no head way has been made in the other two cases, Soldiers tried to ferret out these who have been keeping: these prisoners, but the force sent was not sufficient to make it sat for them to venture into the moun-linous region to which the mis-ries were taken. Whether Mr. Fischle and Mr. Killper are still alive is not yet known to any of their many friends.
Tennis or War While other commanders are peering at maps, and closeted in consultations with their staffs, General Huang Shao-hung is devotting his energies to the popularize ing of the game of tennis. Writing from Kueili up near the Hu-frontier in Kuangsi, a mission~ ary who has seen much of the Kuangsi military leader, goes into details about the coming tennis tournament which the General Wang getting up. Military and governmental affairs are giving him not the least concern.
'Again the drive on Nanning,' capital of Kuangsi province, has failed. The Yunnanese allies of the Eighth Route were badly worsted fand have removed some miles behind their former battle line. All lof the Kuangtung companies that had got through from Wuchow and joined with the allies have been cut toft from the rest of the Kuangtung force in the field. When they came down south and routed the Yun-ina nese, the Kuangsi troops also cut the Hine of communications so that these Kuangtung men are out of touch with the rest of the army.
Bullets also have not diminished the size of the allied army before Nanning, Cholera has broken out, in their camp, there have been! many few deaths, and many privates and officers are under medical treatment.
Because the Canton authorities have not been able to sell all of {the provincial $19,000,000 bond the idea of trying to sell $4,000, worth of national bonds has been given up. This latter sun was to have been Kuangtung's quota the $24,000,000 issue which has been placed on the market through-Jout nationalist China.
Despite the bad financial conditions obtaining down south, this province has to do its bit in helping dispose of Nanking bond: Therefore, it has been arranged that the Provincial Treasurer shall remit [to the national capital what he has taken in from sales of the local issue. Nanking will thus get its $4,000,000 after all. might accept an earthquake or any! other unavoidable calamity.
Such stories of banditry seem al-' most unbelievable even to those of us who live right in the midst of them, but almost every day one has dence of them in the number of gun-shot wounds that are treated in the hospital. There are almost always several such patients in the hospital and quite often one half the ward is occupied with bandit vic tin's. We can only live in hopes that' the Nanking Government will yet develop a technique for dealing with bandits that will eliminate the] scourge.
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