Strange things happen in these confused times. About two months ayo fan uprising of the Hung Chang Hui, Red Spears, practically led to the annihilation of @ considerable number of bandits who had been plundering and living upon the people of several villages north of the China River The Red Spears were all prepared and made their attack simultaneously fon the bandits about their opium smoking time. A fight took, place in which the bandits ware "worsted, many of them killed, the houses which they were slaying burned and In. some cases their Intire families wiped out.
The Red Spear movement since then has been gaining in importance Dut not altogether for the good of the people. "It turns out now that some of their leaders are over-impressed With the groutness of their power and they in turn are making levies on 1 surfqunding villages making as their pretext; "They are the protectors of the eqmmon peopl 'Tue Chairman of the Kiangsi Provincial Government, General Helung Shih-hui, arrived in Hankow from Nanchang' on February 12 to see the Central authorities on some important business, says a report to the "Hwai Mei Pao,
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