Startling news comes from the Yao Mountains in the interior of Kwangsi. The Yao tribesmen who inhabit the mountain fastnesses of this section of the province were recently ordered by the government to pay taxes. The tribesmen rebelled against this order and took up but were forced into submission by the sent against them by the provincial authorities.
For many centuries most of the Yao Moun-independent territory governed by the tribesmen themselves. have been under the direction of their own tribal chieftains, &who both made i the law and for the most Apart from a small tribe or two who inhabit the extreme southern borders of the Yao Mountains, the tribesmen did- not pay taxes to the Chinese government. This has been a sore spot with the government for years and on several occasions de punitive expedition into the mountains if their demands were not met. The various hsien "up their time-honoured privileges with the accompanying peace and quietness to a government that was at war. Tribal chiefs conferred and seated round the camp fires in the moonlight they decided to resist by force any encroachments on their tribal rights. Accordingly fleet-footed messengers were sent running over the mountain trails to call the tribesmen to arms. The call was answered in real tribal fashion. War paint and pheasant feathers soon bedecked the warrior leaders, while the braves that followed fastened their great two-handed swords at their sides, and with native-made long barrelled guns, of a breach-loading type, they started on the war path,
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