Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-28
MILLS GRADUATE
LOSES GOODS IN
VILLAGE BATTLE
Lum KAN Moon, Former Foot
ball Captain, Writes Of
Trouble in China

GIVING n VlNlQ picture OF the us
turbed conditions now prevalent IN
China from a portion OF the country
swept by hand-to-hand ighting. pirate
bands and plague. Lum Kan Moon.
a member OF this years graduating
class at Mills school. has written 10 DR.
Robert Day Williams, president. from
Hongkong.
Kan Moon. who win ba remember
ed as the tall right guard and center
OF the Mills football team, was 10
have entered the College OF Hawaii
at the beginning OF this year. but
was detained in China longer than he
anticipated. He went to the Orient
to visit his aged mother The yonpg
man is q native OF Hawaii
The letter follows in part
II em very sorry that cannot come
back to school this year. hut viii
tell you Of the bad conditions that
keep me away.
My village and neighboring VII
lage declared war on each other on
August 10. but luckily TOR me- I was
not at home at the time. being on
q visit to the home OF a friend IL miles
distant. Had been here / should
have had to go to fight with the Others.
From my friends home. however.
We could hear the sound or the can
mems day and night. After two DAVIS
of fighting our men rushed into the
Lcstile village. capturing guns and
cannons. and killing more than a
hundred OF the enemy. Our own loss
es amounted to five men With several
others wounded.
Following our attack, the others
fed from their homes leaving the
place in the hands Of our men. who
Immediately secured Kerosene and
burned the entire place from 200 to
500 houses
about 10 days later the govern
Inent soldiers. about 1000 OF them.
came with their cannon and demand
cd from US damages for the loss Of
the other town. They also ordered
us to turn over oil of orr soldiers and
guns and ammunition
This our people did not feel that
they could grant, so on August 2el
about 5 O'clock in the morning the
government soldiers Tiislltd into our
village. burning. robbing snd killing
In this attack we again lost FIVE men.
1T was fortunate thing that there
was rain that morning. otherwise the
whole place would have been burned.
AS 1t was we lost only II houses in
the fire.
For four hours this SAVAGE work
continued. at the end OF which time
the commander ordered his troops to
withdraw
Our own home suffered consider.
ably, but not so much as some others.
Our gate was burned, our flower pots
were broken, and many OF our things
we're stolen during The attack. ] do
not know yet whether my trunk WAS
taken away. II it II gone /
have lost all my clothes and many
other things which valued
AT the same time we were suffer
ing from this disturbances. revolution
was going on In the capital at Can
ton. so thousands Of people crowded
together in Macau and Hongkong. The
heat in these days was terrible and
people sought the shade Of houses for
shelter.
~Durfng the night time. they slept
in the open roads because eail hotels
were overcrowded and no houses could
be obtained.
"Then q plague started IN Macau
and many people died every day. Boats
from there were not allowed 70 stop
st Hongkong for a month was only
three miles from the plague ridden
district and I was much afraid Of the
iieease. / tried to 60 to Honekong,
but could not get there. At last
friend and ! took a boat from the dis.
trict to the capitol and from there 70
Hongkong.
sRobbers IN China were very bad
not like Honolulu or any place IN the
world. They come by hundreds TO
village and rob and carry away boys
and girls for ransom
DR.. Williams has taken up the mat
ter of Kan Moons return 10 the IS
lands and has found everything salts
factory for this, so that It Is possible
he viii arrive later this fan and take
up work at the college as he had
planned.