Out Banditry Frese Ocx Owe Comesronoert Tsingkiangpu, Ku, June. 8, It is with much pleasure that your correspondent is able to report that there has been a remarkable change jin conditions in this section in. the last two or three months. Where banditry flourished and people were carried off for ransom nightly the entire countryside is now quite. The methods used to obtain this happy result could and should have been put into effect years ago but now that they have been instituted they prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that few determined and efficient offcials can bring peace and quiet even where bandits have flourished for years.
The Guarantee System The method has been thorough and simple and is as follows. "The entire section—cities, -hsiens and hamlets have been forced to go back to the old guarantee system, one man for: each ten homes, then one for each hundred. This is not a superficial guaranteeing of individuals but means that these head men are responsible for the activities of those they guarantee, Through this "method a number of bandits have been found jand executed while others have quietly left the country. Tt has also had the happy result that those who knew of bandits in their communities wye been able to have them pointed out to the officials. The fear of reprisals has largely disappeared with mest beneficial. results. The fear of bandits has been some respect for and confidence in those in authority.
This Present Peace 1
The result is that night after night there are no sounds of shots, as Wa: nightly oceurance before; the roads are now open without question of locked, barred, and guarded doors. It was yesterday stated that for twenty years these has been nothing in his area to compare with the resent peace.
A good wheat crop has just been harvested which comes as. boon and blessing to the people. Rains are now needed for the corn and beans.
'The Grand Canal 1s now so low that through trafic is not possible fand the bus lines operating between this place and Saopeh are doing a land office business. Yesterday three'
blades were added to the feet, ying forly passengers
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