As the kaoliang or giant sorghum whose stalks reach from eleven to sixteen feet above the plain. reaches maturity, bandit outrages rapidly inferease in number. The so-called bandit villages of the Northeast which the Japanese Army is rapidly wiping Out, might better be described as "moonshiners." In many" instances their principal industry was the production of opium and their chief characteristic that they were entirely self-governing and would not permit Government tax-collectors 0 aproach their strongly defended fairs.
The mountains and forests of the feast and northeast, large tracts of which had a population of less then due in a square mile, were the natural haunts of the Manchurian outlaws,
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