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Show PLAGUE .OF SOLDIER BANDITS AFTER FAMINE HANKOW, China, Feb. I. Atop the horror of famine which bar mnltun the people of north China, com the nws ' of a new plague known colloquially as the "Soldier sUtiuurUr." Briefly. It mean that outlaw banda In the uniform of the various conflicting- armies of the north are "living; on the country." "They have descended on us like a warm of locusts," one Chines mlsalon-ary mlsalon-ary aald In description of prevailing conditlona. Pay haa ben an unknown quantity amonf the northern arm lea for many montha. Their only revenue haa been exacted from the countryside. They have entabl'tihed tax systems of their own and have enforced! collections by h&nginfta and torture. The people of th famine districts, reduced re-duced to a diet of grass and herbs, are panic stricken under the military menace. Recently a band of soldiers looted the city of lchang, destroying Japanese prop-erty prop-erty and intimidating the Chinese, |