Kaifeng, Dec. 8
Tenghsien and that of Neihsiang The Mintuan or People's Army of
southern Honan last month cashed over litle dispute between thet Yespective chiefs, This has all been mlcably: setied although not fore ight or more village hag deco fired and subjectd to plage during the engagement of about twenty days, A large number of farmers were Klied'"or""sertously injured However; according to Gen Fen Chol si who was appointed by the provincial authorities to investigate who has Jost returned Report that the head of the People's Army of Neihsiang, Pieh fang, enjoys an immense influence over' his native district and has about 50,000 of the People's Army wholly loyal to him. His influence many ways avery: beneficial region under his control are said to. be. neither bandits nor opium smokers throughout the length and breadth of it. His people are nevertheless permitted to plant opium poppy that they might do a prosperous trade in it. "Under his direction, his farmers planted more than "3,000,000 trees during the past few years Anti-Fukien Feel Since the outbreak of the Fukien revolt, various military leaders now stationed in" this province "sent cireulay telegrams appealing "for support for the Central Government against, the rebel generals Chen "Ming-hso, Li Chi-shen and others of the new People's Govern-iment in Foochow. Tt was rumoured ere that the atiitade of Gen. Han Fucehu, chairman of Shantung, was somewhat uncertain and that' Gen. Lia Chen-hua, chairman of Anhwe was ordered to move towards the Tsin-Pu Line" asa. precautionary measure, Gen. Liu Chih, chairman of this province, declared "at an interview {othe local press, that the Fukien rebellion would. soon collopes ay it was organised among the Yeactionary. clement, of the country by ambitious politicians." Referring to the projected redistribution of the famine victims of Huahsien in nor them Honan into the south of the province, Gen. Liv stated that the Plan would not be eavried out until next year on account of the lack of the required $800,000, Gen. Liu vent on to deal with, the. bandit-suppression campaign in the south and slated that the notorious libertine Yang Hsiao-he or Small Black Yang, who recently. interfered in Hisihsien, "had escaped to some hiding place near the Honan-Anhwet border. 'The remains of this ban-divs forces would. be destroyed by the' Government troops in due course.
Mention of bandits recalls thi audacity of another rufian known. tuo Kuo-tung who for years considerably disturbed the" peace central and southern Honan. Just Feeentiy, to the indignation of the Authorities" and the amusement of the populace, the local Public Safety Bureau disclosed that the rascal Ind become the legal owner of some Very fine. property. in this. city. ale most next door to the residences of those august personages who wished him most ill. That he was an. effcient bandit: there can be no doubt for he evidently found the means to humour every whim for avery Yespectable and: luxurious old age. How he was betrayed is not disclosed but there is no doubt, there will be grounds for'a vendetta as all the property hax now been con-
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