Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-14
II espeelal e,orresponasnce.51.
! I'm CHOU. Manehnriis. 1000

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" have been riding Al day on the
4 railroad with armed guards Mt
both ends of 1nyScar. We had q.
company of soldiers in the third class
commencement next, To the engine and
n every station was guarded, There has.
been II recent outbreak of the Huangl
E. Hontzes. They have been holding ZIP
trains in the various parts Of Mar
7churia and Just the other day they
4 robbed the express under the very.
shadow of the city Of Hardin and cap
tured $4,000. Even here. IN the south,
81 he trains are not safe, and they all
& have soldiers upon them. The first
thing one sees on his arrival ut every
depot Il i ii: squad of Chinese soldiers
4 carrying Mauser rifles. They line them
y selves up in front OF the train ard
stand to attention until IL pulls out.
w Ss TIL II ARE;tffss toFy NIlANCHuRIA..
% These guards are y necessity on ac-s
count Of 1.-The 5Hnang Houtzes, who
/ form. perhaps tho most remarkable orr
"a gahization of brigands now known.
They might be called the Tuaregs OF
N Manchuria, for they surpass III number
4 and daring the yelled camcl-nounted
bandits of The Sahara. They have
$l9ipidly Increased since the Boxer up
! rising. and especially since the Japan
Russian war, They now. number over
900, and Isl ther agents are to be
found in every city and village They
have u regular toll which they collect 4
on all travellers outside the railroads
z and every Chinese passenger who goes
over Manchuria on foot, In cart, or
on o. horseback must pay tribute to
them. They have fixed charges as to
goods in transit. and the carts carrying
i 1l'.aigll are marked with little printed
Tags with red borders. furnished by
them. Upon the flags are printed
3e5h llrlts characters certifying that the
! oNNYner8llas paid his toll, and that the
vehicle and drivers are not to be 8mo-
Tested Otherwise the man is sure to \
i ne robbed and his men may be killed.
ii a rev monthsEago, on the same day
ilvVs carts started out from Mukden. OIL
these AL Sbnt two had paid their toll |
and bore Hllang Houtze flags The |
men and goods In the carts SO tagged
completed their Journey in safety:l3 but |
the Y. OF hers. who had refused to pay the
toll, were al tacked by the bandits be-
lore they had gone 10 miles from thu |
q S. ne goods We're stolen and their |
drivers We're Killed. n:
1uIltlg my stay in Mukden, Italked |
with the agent Of a big mining con-
cesslon.a man who represents q large
organization an of British and Japanese
ca pitalists. He is opening up a gold
region in the ISirin province, and has
10 send his supplies to the mining
s - across country He says he
cares dare not start out a cart without such
protection and that In Important cases
y ne usually employ one of the brigands |
70 &c. along in person. He did this with |
1 Two glish mining engineers whom
ne ne. sent forward last week. Said he:
They mightfhav gotten through All
r Z 81 with the Huang Houtze flags on
their ltNe carts but, outside the great DR.
sanl MA 10, Of brigands, there are petty
1 ,,H'iltl OF robbers who might attack
mem 1S Such men will not dare to touch
~. one :. guarded by a Huang Houtze;
killed by the latter. 81 =