Better Communications a Contributing Factor From Oun Owx Consonant Haichow, Ku, Moy 1.
Remarkable progress has been made in the Haichow Distret, during the last few years, along the line of bandit suppression and control. practically every part of this istrict there has - Been improve-mont, and In some sections, this" former dread menace to old and young alike has been almost In contrast with the din of robber rifles and the frequent shrieks and screams of bandit victims, the nights In and near Haichow, have for some. time been remarkable' free from any. fit= ing. In some parts of the Haichow District st is true that conditions are still far from ideal, but it is also true that In practically' every part of this section there has been a most marked improvement In the control of bandit Tie contrast with former condltons is emphasized every time the recent past is brought up. Tt seems only yesterday since I stood on the back porch of my home and watched a band of vicious ruMans. who had just passed by our compound wall, alfack a house a few feet beyond the north end of the wall, and capture and kidnap two small children amid an inferno of firing, yelling and screaming. At that time, only two or three years: ago, hardly a night passed without considerable gunfire, and many times the firing was s0 Intense and so dangerously close it sounded as though it were right in our own yard,
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