When 1 left there, some the robbers were already in the place, having brought in their rifles' under" barrow loads kaoliang, Soon after.1 got out of the place, the bandits opened up and witha burst of rifle fire captured this man, They came to the place 7 had been staying and fired right into the room Thad been occupying, and wounded the father of the man whom they captured, This _man made almost miraculous escape from them 1 fow days later.
Shaho, six miles away, to which T went that night, was also visited Just recently, and while sitting at a feast With several friends, one of them recalled the time when the bandits chased me to the very gates of the lace, failing to catch me because T was on a motorcycle and they were fon horses, The local oMfcials were so disturbed, they begged me not to travel those roads any more till the situation cleared, This time, both Denshang and Shaho, and the country around there, -seemed to be thoroughly peaceful, In fact, when necessity required night travelling, 1 felt no uneasiness. There has been a vast Improvement in the situation, There seem to be three main reasons for the great improvement in Dandlt suppression and control all over the Haichow District. In the first place, the soldiers who occupy this district are of a much higher type than many of those who former-held control here, and they seem fo be regularly. pald, which has not Present Accord Expires Irrevocable Moscow, May 12.
The Soviet-Japanese Ashing convention, which expires on May 27, is to be renewed until December 31, 1936, under a temporary agreement Regotlations for a new convention do of fructify by the date of expiry. A Japanese proposal to that effect has been accepted by the Soviet Further, the contents of the tempora ary agreement have been agreed upon by M. Kozlovsky, chiot of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Department of the Foreign Commissariat, and the Counsellor to the Japanese Embassy here.
The purpose of the agreement Is to enable negations for the new convention to be continued and completed without upsetting the status quo, and it will be signed, If necessary, on the eve of expiration of the present convention—Reuter.
Tokyo, May 14 Unless a new pact prolonging the non-fartifcation clause of the Wash: ington Treaty is concluded, Japan will not only revive the construction of defensive works suspended in 1923, but will also launch on new projects a5 to cope with the present situation in the Pacific.
This declaration was made to-day by Gen. Count H. Terauchi, Minister of War, when questioned in the Diet as to what measures the Army was,
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