Replying to questions concerning their means of defence, the magis: trate ave a brief order to a mes Senger, who disappeared, and shortly returned bearing a Chinese sword and a pistol.
this sword." the magistrate said, was made from parts of the chassis of a ci weve motor-loi The whole district is with these weapons. tral hundreds of them, as well is a Targe quantity of agricultural imple ments for farm use here. dollars each. They were issued to Jocal defence force, only regulars having better arms. Each expended cartridge, he said, was carefully re-Wieved and reloaded six times.
showed me. how one man, holding a spare cartridge between the fingers of his left hand. could fire and reload almost as fast as he could with a rifle. With some misgivings, T Inter fired the weapon. It has a tremendous recall, drives a rite bulet with a force far exceeding that of any similar arm. and is sufficient Ty accurate for the distances for Which itis likely to be used.
'Resist for Ever'
The next morning we rode to the Yellow River, the entire population
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