Arizona republican., 1913-11-17
NO PROVINCE IS
 FREE OF BANDITS
There is No Local Police to Cope With Outlaws and the Army is Not at Pres ent Dependable Branch of Administration
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1spArcHI

ASSOCIATED PEKING, China, Nov. 16-Brigand- age in China has spread until some robber bands have assumed the dignity of small armies. They muster both foot and cavalry and are as large as two American regiments. No province is free from bandits. From Manchu- ria, where the Hunghutzes ply their trade, to KWantung, infested by pirates, and from Kaingsu to Turkestan, come reports of freebooters who defy the au- thorities.
 There is no local police to cope with the outlaws and the army is not at present a dependable branch of the administration. China is never free from brigandage, but it is only at per- iods of transition, when the authority of the government is shaken by pO- litical disorders like the recent rebel lion. that the bands attain such large proportions
 The American missionaries who fled from their homes in the interior of Fukien province are still at FoochoW, unable to return because no protec- tion can be assured them by the gov ernment. The American consulate at Foochow and the legation at Peking have been trying in vain for several months to get the Chinese government to take vigorous action against Hwang Liang. the outlaw who proclaimed himself sixteenteeth emperor of the Ming dynasty.
 4 consular report from Shensi says that province is practically adminis- tered by outlaws, who work solely in their own interest. The governor ad- heres to the central government only because there is no interference from Peking and because it is good policy for him to describe himself as loyal. The governor, or tutu. as he is called, was a poor and interruptions official but now he has amassed a large for tune and a numerous harem.
 The consul gives an account of how the commanding general likewise ob- tained wealth and authority. Being appointed commissioner for the suppress sion of opium in the province, says the report, he started on a tour with body of troops. He took the precaution al- ways to send word ahead announcing his approach, a policy which, as is customary, brought forth munificent presents from the people. If the pres- ents were ample no opium was discov- cred. He confiscated only the prepared drug. that being most easily portable and of the highest value, and brought it back to the important centers and sold it.
 A member of the American consular service who came recently to Peking from Canton says that piracy along the rivers and canals is more exten- siVe than ever before. The authorities are endeaVoring to terminate it by giving the chiefs government offices and incorporating the ordinary pirates and brigands in the navy and army. It is evident that this time honored prac- tice has not passed away with the Manchu dynasty.
 The French legation has received news of the burning of a Roman Cotho- lie mission church during the plum dering and buring of a town in south ern HOnan, not far from Tsaoyong, where the American and Norwegian missionaries were made prisoners in September. The government has sent troops in large numbers to fight against White Wolf" the brigand chief who is terrOrizing that section of the country, but according to the report of another American consul, the
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