Bandit Chiefs to Lead an Uprising in Four Provinces Chengchow, Sept. 28.
Provincial authorities are hastening. [precautionary measures against wides spread uprisings by "Red Spear" Outlaws in Honan, following the receipt of reports regarding secret, {plots having been made by these unruly elements to create a reign of terror in this part of the country According to messages received here from the Kiangsu provincial government, the notorious bandit chief, Li (Cheng-teb, of North Kiangsu," has. been holding secret conferences with two Anhwei "Red Spear" leaders, {Chang Hsiao-lien and Ma Yen-sheng, and intelligence reports disclose that these bandit chiefs are scheming to unite all "Red Spear" units in. the four provinces of Honan, Kiangsu, Shantung, and Anhwei, with a view to causing widespread disturbances and raids on the border regions of the four provinces.
Meanwhile, it is also learned that Shih Vu-shan, one of the disgruntled militarists in' North China, who has Agured prominently in most of the revolts in that area, has sent his subordinates to the various districts in West and South Honan to recruit more followers. Tt has not been revealed, however, whether Shih' plans have any connection with the "Red Spear" leaders. Most of Shin's followers are troops formerly under his command at times when he was holding military posts in North China—Central Neys,
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