Show SHANTUNG STILL RULED OY DY HORDE OF f BANDIT CHIEFS I Feudalism Persists in Province Despite Modem Modern Mod Mod- em ern Methods By D. D C c. c BESS United Pres Staff Correspondent PEPING PING 2 United Press Shantung provInce in spite of Its hundreds of mlle miles of seacoast Its three modern railways s and its extensive extensive ex- ex motor toda today presents pre pre- a picture of feu feudalism to that existing in Europe itt In tire middle ages according to a survey st jl completed by a foreign traveler in tile the province The homeland of C COnfucius about which such a sy raged at Versailles and later at the Washington Wash Wash- ington conference has Ilas suffered as much as an any of tile tho most remote provinces in China as a result of at the widespread desolation attendant upon civil wars and militarist 1 mis- mis 11 rule The people leople wIro w-ro had hoped so much from the coming of the last spring have lJ been en plunged into deeper despair as con con- have remained practIcally unaltered tile the survey shows By By- Bythe the trend of circumstances I Shantung province has become a a. kind of mans no-man's land between tile the two most powerful warlords at atan Nan Nan- Chiang king Kai shek and Feng Yu These leaders who ire not yet et willing fully to trust each other have staked out parts ot of the province for their own and other i parts jurisdiction ot of which IS itt hi dispute h have ve been left In the hands of bandit leaders who swear n nil nil- allegiance to Nankin and Dr Suns Sun's Three Principles but actu actually lly are the same hIghway r robbers rob rob- b- b bers belS they have awa always s 's been whose sole function is to raise revenue and who feel fee no obligations to give anything In return br tile the they extract from the people Two of these bandit overlords have become very powerful under the thc nationalist regime one holding the southern quarter of tire Ue province e along the coast from a point fin fifty miles below the other othel ting up in being protested by Ja anese occupation of the theT T railway zone which prevents nationalist armies from advancing advancing ad- ad from flom the south It is true that conditions have Improved in the region actually occupied by Feng Yu Yu-hsiang and In some parts In Chiang Kai Kai- Kal heks hek's resIde the survey shows But fully 60 per er cent of the province is little changed from previous periods o of misrule 1 |