WHO IS WHITE WOLF?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 4

WHO IS WHITE WOLF?

A. AIV -> -\\ HO BIMBS. CHINA,

' Seven months ,iga White W-olf, the famous brigajiii of iiotian, was just a com-, mon nuisance. 'INs-day tlie fluestien of his oaptnre or deslrnctioii is 3>E?yeiHl alt dispute Ike most ui£e»i 'that: conftoats, la tti3 country of Wt population., scanty emiilQ'lnen.t ami corrujit government brigandage is endemic, The enormous majority of the people depend upon asricia'ltnrc, but llw'li.d'ts are »ot. targe •enough to provide far , all,' Trade, industry, and marine employment ■provide tor but a i'raetion of tlie surplus. Tlio rest must depend etj casual labour, and tiu transition from' this to wiwawi'v, salt Bmwggiinj?, or pitaty en tins inland waterways, is short: and easy. . Dmitry tlio revolution or tliose roisgh characters enlisted. The reV fcis were scattered to the open country, Jjnt this time. they. wew provitted, witti goad modern 'rifles and aiumiimuaij. Ot the Govoriimwt troops as; many .as pofc sihle have beim paid off and _ urrneu adrift. No consideratfeii was lakftn of the -fact-that they "had lseiUwr resources nor trade and that they were IrcqtiejiUj far from thei»,hmnes. BriganjflAgts claim; eil thau «s the- only possible means of inaldbg ; a living. 1 ... ■White Wolf, or Pelt Lang, to giro nun his Chinese. name, ctmies e£ a decent Eoiian family., ajul pa>?td a millInry college, graduating fourth 011 the list, Lastyeai- he sided with the rebels, but Mute last J til}- he Ims been operating entirely on his own account, as runny mined .cities earn tell. At first the Government -seems to nave midci-uslimated his ir.ir.ortanec. Tbe oldtrielc was tried of uffering lriin a-n omelal past. White Wolf refused, .and the Gov-, enuiiertt in e; very leistiroly manner resiaiied itself to eapturjitg liiltu Up to the end of last year White elf was kept busv with the cities of the (iena!>-l!<';ioh border. .About Christmas fee began to move eastwards, ?A»-»jffing ftcress Southern ll'M'.an into sYnlnti, where till? devastating march enlmilii)tcd in tlio appaHiftg sack:of Lhtaucbowt It was here tliflt -Father Hicii, the .French Jesuit, was ; murdered. . •

.Fiendish Followers. White'"WW has 110 quarrel fti'ili torCigljers. ••He is described as suave and coui'fccons, and. he expressed dee).) regret at Father Kick's death. But his men ar«. fiends, In a recent engagement with {ho Government troops they are said to have fasfeftod girls ®ti. ponies, with tij.is •of burning kerosene tied to their shoulders, and driven them a-Minst their opponents. Nothing like the destruction wrongb-t at Liuanehow has been- seen since Nanfang was sacked by Mw'Taipings fifty years Btunotu- attributes to A\ Kite Wolf St), followers. Probably he has not more than iOSt). or .TOO at the outside. They are affile,,, and- the troops against them are •,'ow and clumsy, Noise tlie less they otinhe to have been suppressed months ■ns'o Vrt fur ,lho culpable slackness of Ciiaß" Che'nw-rane, .Tutuh of Htmon. The Chinese openly 'declare that Chang received a percentage' from White Wolf, 1 but that as lie, Clru'-T, is a brolheiviii-kitr of Yuan Sbih-kai (say tho Chinese), 110 redress ean he expected. Mark the sequel. After the sack of Lhuusehow Chang was cashiered and Timn Cf:i!i-jui, Minister of Wai\ was Appelated with as many followers as be pleased (it is said be lias -10, MO now ift Ihe ■ field) to catch White Woif, whose continued depredations are seriously affecting China's credit in the eyes of the. Powers. But thros weeks later another Mandate appeared. the purport of which was to rWn Cham* another clianee. and to retain him in Joint command with Turui.—From the "Daily News."

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