CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

(Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.) BANDIT OUTRAGES. SHANGHAI, Aug. S. A group of missionaries, mostly American Cathouc Fathers and Sisters, have arrived here after lour months’ arduous trek on nudes and sedan (hairs, in the wildest part ol Central China. Following the exodus iroin Kweichow, two sisters died from exhaustion on route. The party reports indescribable devastation and ravages hv soldiers and bandits, with famine everywhere. Complete towns were burned bv bandits, the inhabitants Ilceing to all pa rt s of the country, where their starving missions were burned and looted, and travellers belli up by bandits and stripped of valuables and belongings. The party witnessed the looting of the mission at. Hhcnchowfu, the Chinese students’ Political Bureau auctioning the mission property in the streets. This was foi'lmved by the burning of the mission school. They declare that the mission work in Kineiclmw Province is completely ruined.

A NOTH F.H PULPING COLLAPSES. (Deceived this day at 10.15 a.tttA SHANGHAI. Aug. !). A two storey concrete Chinese market place on the edge of the French concession, collapsed without warning, following the visitation of the tail-end of tt typhoon and heavy rains, killing over 100 men. women and children, and injuring five hundred.