An old German-pattern hand-grenade used in the Great War is the Chinese soldier's favourite weapon. Night, when the superior armaments of the Japanese are of little use, is the time when the Chinese come into their own, using these deadly missiles.
Their excellent intelligence service, based as it is on the natural inclina-
Chaochu, an important town on the railway, to the south of Linfeng, had a "local government" consisting of one man only, the magistrate told me. The man, he said, was an opium smoker—merchant whose shop wa now closed.
"The Japanese," he went on, "have offered to rebuild the houses free of charge in this town, if tne women and their families return, but not a single person has accepted the offer."
"Sometimes the Japanese threaten to destroy a town if the people do not return" he proceeded. "Old men Occasionally go back, but young men. children, and women, both old and young, never do."
The magistrate went on to describe the Japanese efforts to consolidate their financial hold on the people along the railway. At present, he said, it was a criminal offence for a person to possess more than 30 dollars in Chinese currency, while Chinese having more than 100 dollars were The requests were made by the Japanese Consul-General before the Easter holidays and their contents were made public by Chinese sources yesterday. The Japanese notes were Quoted as saying that along the Fukien and Chekiang coast properties on which third party national flags are flying have increased and that this increase has aroused suspicion.
This reported Japanese request has led some quarters to believe that the detention of nine steamers flying Portuguese flags near Tinghai tion of the people, provides them with accurate information on Japanese troop movements and even on details concerning the whereabouts of higher officers, With their local knowledge, the attackers are able to operate on the darkest nights, with a good chance both of finding their objective and escaping unscathed. Every night, dozens of such attacks are made, each, I was told. insignificant in itself, but in their aggregate by no means negligible.
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