Paragould soliphone., 1921-08-22
CHINA DEMANDS INTERNATIONAL.
 PROTECTION
Brigandage, Under Guise Of Military Government, Must be Checked by For eign Powers.
By Charles Edward Hogue. Limited Press Rssoc1at1onn)

Shanghai. Ang 19- Brigandage, under the guise Of military govern men in the various provinces, must be checked by international ae1loh if he country is to be saved from a hopeless condition. according To MT. ]. Harold Dollar, Vice-prealdent and general manager of the Robert Dollar Company.
 Mir. Dollar has just returned from a trip up the 9an&tsze River and has first-hand information as to condI- lions that led to the slaughter 1 .l.500 so-caHed mutinous soldiers, who were really martyrs to trea- chcrous leader. and the footing or
 he cities Of lehanG and Wmlchang.
 Foreign authorities should not take into consideration the nicctios of international law when they are dealing with the so-called sOldiery here, declared Dollar. They are dealing with uniformed bandits who do mol deserve any considera- tion other than that of outlaws.
 That the reported mutiny was really nistigatcd by the military chief at Ichang. Mir. Dollar has no doubt His version, after careful nvestigation is that he soldiers really organized bandits in uniform had received no pay for some time and were growing restless. Hence the leader inlimatod that lnchang offered Il fertile field for loot and lei the men go to il.
 The result was that many of the Chinese residents of the city found themselves homeless and minus their savings and stock in trade and many foreign firms were temporarily put out of business by mobs of loot hungry uniformed robbers.
 An international Settlement al Tchang is the only proper soulton of the commercial problem on the Upper Yangtsze, according to Mr. Dollar. Unless the foreign governments step in business there will be badly disrupted permanently. He asserts that this is the view of the Chin csc merchants who suffered more heavily from the bogus soldiery than do the foreigners.
 Mir. Dollar gave vivid descrip- lion of the slaughter of he men who footed lchang, From the accounts gathered by the steamship man il Iappears that after the commander of the troops at ichaug had allowed them 10 loot the city he placed them aboard q ship for transport to Waucharg. Upon their arrival at Wuchow the soldiers were disarm- ed and promised safe conduct to their homes up country. They agreed to this when immunity for prosecution for mutiny and footing were made.
 The train went to siding about 60 miles out of Wuchow and the cars were shutcd on the side track there. The locomotive was sent up the main line a considerable dis tance and then two machine gun nests were unmasked and opened fire on the ears containing the soldiers The machine gunnera did their work thoroughly and the en- tire contingent was wiped out.
 Petitions have already been pre- pared by the Chinese merchants ar Tchang asking for an International Settlement, and will be forwarded to the proper authorities in the I.ega- tions at Picking as we'll as to the Chinese authorities These ask for the organization of q Settlement similar to that of Shanghai.
 Admiral Strauss, commander of the American Asiatic Fleet, is up~ri- yer at the present time personally directing the operations of the river boats.