The "new disorder in East Asia" is only too tragically apparent in many ways, but in none more painfully so than in the prevalence of banditry and armed robbery. A certain hospital has at the present time no less than 23 patients who have been burned by robbers in an effort to extort money from them. When one looks back three years, and remembers that incidents of the kind had become exceedingly rare, it is very painful to see how the forces of evil have been unleashed by the present regime. said to be constantly on guan Will be held responsible if any untoward happening occurs, So great is the recuperative power of the Chinese people that if the present regime could be eliminated before too large a proportion of the population is debauched by the flood of narcotics which is overwhelming the city, the return to a normal state of affairs might occur much more quickly than can at present be imgained.
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