Bisbee daily review., 1921-08-27

lip service to Peking, while, in real ity, they crack the whip while Picking jdmpsa thu hFoagh1the hoop - SECOND, there are the Tuchuns who have openly disowned Picking; for instance, the war lords of Yum nan, Kueichow, Human and other provinces.
 Supreme among the first classifica- tion comes the former Manchurian bandit, General Chang Tso-lin, who fought for Japan in the war with Russia.
 General Chang Tso-lin is inspector general of the three northern prov inces,' with headquarters in Mukden. His word is law. If Picking does not do, he suggests" new officials for old and what he wants is done.
 Recently, when eGneral Wu, a henchman of his, was assassinated in Tientsin, he was not satisfied with the riddling of the murderer's body with bullets. He demanded the be. heading, after tortue, of the fellows old mother. brothers and sisters-in- law and the turning of their house. hold into dungheap."
 Charges Secret Treaty
 General Tsao-Kun, Tuchun of Chihli province, with headquarters at Tien- tsin, is next in power. Tsao-Kun and Chang Tso-lin are rivals and though they are now working together, after fashion, little love is lost between them.
 General Wu Pei-fu, Tsao-Kun's right-hand lieutenant, openly charges Chang Tso-lin with scheming to con. trol Mongolia-into which country he is heading an expedition with Urga as the objective - not through patriotic motives but because of secret treaties with Japan, and with Russian reac- tionarieS.
 Chang Tso-lin and TsaoKun con- trol Picking and, through Peking. such other war lords as pay nominal re- spect to Picking.
 Other Tuchans, in other sections of China, are of mold, only smaller.
 Children Burned Alive
 Have q look at the Tuchun of Hu- peh, General Wang Chan-yuan.
 Some weeks ago. troops of the Sec ond Division, under his direct com mand. and in his home city, sacked Wuchang, a city of S00,000 inhabi- tants across the Yangtze river from Hankow, where the foreign settle ment is, and burned large sections of the town.
 It is known that children were burned to death. Innocent people were shot down in the streets as they fled before the soldier-bandits.
 The day following the sacking of the city, headless bodies and heads without bodies lay, covered with flies, in the streets.
 Shops were wrecked, warehouses pillaged, then burned. The footing was so thorough that even the very poor had the few copper cash" they possessed taken from them.
 Riddled in Box-car
 Women were attacked, and red ter TOT paralyzedl the city for hours, thanks to the troops of the Chinese government.
 General Wang. Tuchun of Hupeh, was powerless. It is said his own bodyguard threatened to join the looters.
 After pillaging Wuchang, the loot CTS seized trains and departed.
 Upon an order from the Tuchun. one of these trains was sidetracked at Siaokau, where for hours, with the. boxcars packed with the pillagers. machine guns kept up running stream of lead, turning the cars into sieves which. like huge collanders, dripped blood.
 No escape was possible for those inside. 2.
 The other looters got off scott-free, with their loot.
 Picking Does Nothing
 A few hours before all this hap pened, a similar scene happened at Ichang, d place numbering about S5,0QQ inhabitants, above Wuchung,