As mentioned already, recruiting for the armies at the front is being pushed in the hsien districts through-our this province.
Although the higher authorities publicly announced that only when there are three eligible young men in a famíly One be called up, local authorities (in some cases at any rate) declare that one of every two such will be taken. It may be of course that one of three proves to be insufficient.
But even this is not being observed. The following. from a letter received from a small hsien city a dew stages from Kweiyang tells a pitiful story:—"Yesterday 40 left for Kweiyang. Poor fellows, it made one feel sad to see them go, 20 im a file with a wire passed through their garments under the left arm passing from one to another and keeping them at about two feet from each cther—this, of course, to prevent them from running away.
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