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THE CHAOS IN CENTRAL CHINA.

TERRORISM INCREASED BY CIVIL WAR

TERRIBLE TÅLES OF VIOLENT OUTRAGE AND CRUELTY.

Bolshevism and brigandage bave become a definite and increasingly serious menace in Central China as troops of both North and South are engaging "in preparation. As terrorism gets!

and more wide-spread the civil fighting itself, as far as the

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systematic plans. Guards were placed all over the city while others ransacked the houses. The St. Columban's Mission was the dut laws' main.objective, and they were war also bent on seizing, the Catholic sisters, but fortunately the latter escaped without being molested,

A Chinese report from Aocheng, Hupeh district, say "The Com-

people, particularly these in the

Communist or bandit-infested areas are concerned, has ceased to be a

nunists have finally established their headquarters here. They have

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Men, women and children were captured and dragged through mountainuous paths covered" with snow and ice, and whipped all the way. The snow being unusually deep, the shoes of the unfortunate socks would droop off and thus they victims would stick fast. Then their were mercilessly whipped and dragged on without either through cold streams and over the roughest the snow and ice, wading through roads until their blood tracks could GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS,

be seen wherever they had passed.

cause of excitement. The popula. organized a regülar Red Army, and dragged off a long precession of

tign has become used to war threats, but they are watching, the revival of Communism with no little degree of dread and unxiety.

At one time a large band of bandits numbering cyer a thousand, Cheka methods are employed to en- axcarte laden with women and girls. The bandits disappeared inth the force Bolshevik doctrines. The en-

mountains 23 Government troops ir population of the district is arrived, but as the troops have been being compelled to become Com-evacuated and dispatched to the munists, and those who dare to defy war front, they are back on their their orders are tortured to death

job. Suffering in "Honan seems, to in a most brutal mànnét.

be everlasting. Land- lords, were caught and had their faces painted black and then butch- ered in the streets after being paraded. All those who have be- THE

Outrages perpetrated by outlaw gangs upon helpless cities and towns in the interior are reported in private and official dispatches coming from Kiangsi, Husan, Hupeh and Honan. The situation in Kiangsi province is especially

come Communists had their right had, it being reported that over half hand dyed blood red and wear a of the districts in the province are red band around their left a now in the grip of Bolshevik ter- The movement is well-organized and rorists. The mountainuous districts the Bolshevik leaders are ruling the of Northern Kiangai where two district with an iron hand Land British missionaries of the Chingfords were shot like dogs and their Inland Mission, Mr. and Mrs. wives, in some cases, actually boiled Purteous, were taken captive, are in oil after they were made to sur. completely over-run by bandits, and render all their wealth: the uprisings threaten to spread to the more prosperous cities like Nanchang and Kjukiang. Thc gravity of the situation in this part of the country is admitted in the telegram of resignation recently sent to the National Government by the Governor, General La Ti Ping,

at Nanchang.

Catholic Missionaries Captured.

Appalling Suffering.

Tales of appalling sufferings have also come from. Honan, a province ruined utterly by lamine, civil war and banditry. At present thou sands and thousands of troops are massing in strategie areas, but little attention is paid to bandits who are taking advantage of the milit-

PRESERVING RURAL SCOTLAND. THREAT OF INDUSTRIAL

INVASION.

lectured in Edinburgh to the Sir John Stirling Maxwell recent- members of the Philosophical In- stitution on the aims of the Associa

for the reservation of Bural Scotland.

New methods of transport, the lec turer said, new industries, and new ideals tended to spread over rural areas the industrial population which had hitherto been mainly con- fined to large towns and coal fields. The problem was to effect the tran- sition without speiling the country- side more Where beauty was

than Was necessary. asset, it should be considered along with the association's whole case. other assets. That, in brief, was

Sir John said that the association questioned the wisdom of the new because more than £300,000 had been road through Glencoe, not so much

spent on a road which scarcely pass- In Northern, Eastern and West-ary situaton, and are carrying outed a single house, but because of the ruthless engineering, which ern Hupeh, activities of the Reds wholesale looting and killing char-threatened to destroy much of the

acteristic of the behaviour of the wild beauty... continue to be rampant, and as

The association, he added, op- Honan brigand. Towns have been Government troops are evacuated

posed the Grampian theme for har. and sent to the war front to parti-sands of women and children taken and Glen Cannich, because no preet captured and recaptured and thou- nessing the waters in Glen Affric eipate in the anti-rebel campaign,

was forthcoming that the power was rigand gange are left alone and

needed in the highlands that it given opportunity to commit looty Miyang, who has gone through could be led to the industrial dis ing and kidnapping on

some of the worst days, describes tricts at a less cost than that of a large

the bandit terror there in the generating power from coal on, the scale. Villages and towng in

spot. The effect on the glens was agricultural districts like. Sicokan,

following words :~~

dianstrous, and it seemed folly, to The suffering caused by the ban-sacrifice any more until the result dits during the recent cold Winter of the schemes now, under construc

tion was known. months can hardly be told. Count-

The Lochaber scheme, of which the less bumbers have again been "oat-first installment, had just been fin- raged and shot down, while many ished, included the making of two. others have died as a result of the typical reservoirs, one of which is

Aocheng, Tungcheng, Hanchuan Kienli, Hwangmei, Shayang, Lo- tien and Sientabcheng have fallen easy preys. Sientaocheng was the latest city to be victimized, two Catholic Fathers of the St. Colum ban's Mission having been taken prisoners. The bandita looted the town and carried off 30 horse-leads of silver. Details of the attack re veal that the invaders adapted quite

prisoners. An American "mission.

privations and hardships endured

skirted by the railway and the other

at their hands, or are still suffer the road. He was not finding ing from these effects. One man, an aged Chinese, was brought into the Mission Compound with frozen his release being obtained with the feet, and died shortly afterwards, payment of a huge sum ás ransom.

fault with this scheme of the British Aluminium Company which was developing the power for its own success would it undoubtedly co- great industry, but only complete

tailed.

Diary of Coming Events.

Today (May 15.)

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