Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
WHITE WOLF BANDS
ESCAPE ONCE MORE
Officially Reported Trapped,
Chinese Bandits Slip Away
and Raid Cities in Newest of
Republics.

PEK1N, Sept ls-The redoubtable White
Wolf bands have once more escaped from
the very clutches of the Government
troops Only few days ago official re-
ports we're circulated to the effect that
the movement of troops against them had
been succc, iful. that they had been
driven far to the northwest of China
and that they were now as fish in a
frying pan.
Instead of that they have ravaged some
of the chief cities of Rnnsu and are now
in full retreat from the district in which
they were to be brought to their knees
by shortage of supplies and ammunition
into the more fertile and wealthy dis
tricts of Shensi.
White Wolf bands looted the mission
aries. houses at kansu before burning
them. The Chinese Government has tel
egraphed instructions to the Governor Of
Kansu to succor the distressed mission
aries and to provide them with escorts II
they are needed. At Taochow the towns
people resisted the outlaws. but surren-
dered after less than one days fighting.
Nearly 10000 lives we're lost by murder,
fire and suicide. a large part of the
city is In ruins.
SPREAD UNREST IN ARMY.
The reasons for the trouble with the
troops in KaIgan are looked for in the
agitation Of agents of White Wolf among
the Manchu troops Of the First Division
These agents spread the news that the
Government intended To dissolve the body
guards and the First Division i'm autumn
next and TO settle them on the waste land
of Mongolia When the commander Of
the First Division learned of it he had
fS,ti IL t,Frl glE.g. mi
mutiny broke out
The report that banner troops have sup
pressed the troubles is much doubted,
since they are Manchus themselves 1t
Is more probable that the banner troops
left kalgan to the rebels and that the
police afterward restored peace as well as
they could. About 100 of the mutinving
troops have left Kalgan. taking their
arms and ammunition.
Officials at places sacked by the White
Wolf brisands have been ordered TO stand
their trials at Lanchow If thev are
found guilty of negligence they will be
severely punished. Large quantities of
ammunition and arms including six field
guns one mountain gun and three pieces
OF heavy ordnance, have arrived at Pekin
from the Shanghai Arsenal to he used I'm
the expedition against the White Wolf
bands
The escape of the brigands Is a severe
olnw 10 the Government. which has been
quite confident that they could no longer
escape punishment. The President nc
cording to the Chinese papers. has CEN
sured and degraded General I.u Chen
chang, who was recently put In COM
mand of the troops employed in rounding
up the brigands but has ordered him 10
remain at his post and redeem his
failure.
The Government is entitled to a good
deal OF sympathy In it's latest dsappOint-
ment. Any troops In the world would find
II dinlcult to round up such an astonsh-
ingly mobile force. With complete disre-
gard for other persons lives and prop
crty, the White Wolf bands commander
food. transports and whatever else they
require and move about so rapidly that
they are sometimes reported to cover one
hundred miles within % hours
NO startling political developments
nave occurred during the last fortnight
If one excerpts the vigorous press cam
paign that is being conducted by certain
Chinese journals against the sO-called
kwangtung party In the. Ministry of
communications The leader of this
party Is LANG Shi-yi, ex-secretary Of the
President, who has fallen somewhat into
the background since he was appointed
Director General of the Revenue a. o,
Customs) Council. For the last week or
two one OF the most widely read and in
huential Of the local newspapers, the
AsiatIc Daily News. has been EloatinG