Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-09-30 | Page 9 | Chinese Armies Agree to Fight in New Location

Chinese Armies Agree to Fight In New Location Returned Missionary Says Opposing Op-posing Generals Reach Decision De-cision Not to Muss Up City" Leader fighting for power and money are cauaing all the disturbance distur-bance in China, In the opinion of Dr. Marguerite Kverham, Juat re j cently returned from a mission In Hwatow, China, who 1 the guest of Mr, r. R. Payne, 171 eleventh ; avenue. "Bualneea men, teacher, mini-' tr and student, ah aay. -may go anywhere they wish without being be-ing hindered, although they may arrive ar-rive In a town or city under one fovernment and leave It under another. an-other. Lack of a atrong central control make tt possible for am bltloua lead era to lake a city by mere force of arm, providing they hav money enough to raise a, sufficient suf-ficient number of aoldiera. Tor they aay In China that every bandit ban-dit la an ex-aoldler and every Midler Mi-dler an ex -bandit, the two occupation occupa-tion being Interchangeable. Frequently, Fre-quently, however, when a city change hand no fighting 1 done, because the man In control may find that his enemy 1 tooTower ful and rather than fight wilt aim ply pack up and leave the town the day before the other general arrive. ar-rive. "Generally, however." Dr. Kverham Kver-ham continued, "there la a great respect for life and In one Ina lance mlaalonarlea of the vartoua churches acting aa middlemen or arbiters wars able to persuade two opposing armies to do their fighting away from the city. They Interviewed the two leader, epoke to them of the possible danger to the Inhabitants, Inhabi-tants, ami after a few tea parties and certain gotnge back and forth, which accompany any transaction there, the two generals agreed to have their .fight la. a part of the country distant from the city. BRUTALITY PREVAILS. . "But It la the people who Buffer, neverthale," h ei plained. "For unleaa the city ha a chamber of commerce. In which case the soldiers sol-diers will be paid a sum of money to remain out of the a hope, tha people peo-ple have to support th soldier and may ba forced to provide food and money. Nor la that all. One day when I waa about to take a train a our abort forty mile of railroad I wa compelled to wait and witness wit-ness on of th thing which make people fear the soldier moat. A hundred and twenty men with a rope tied around their neck were brought down to the train and forced into a aort of cattle car for ahlpment to a dlatant part of th country, where they were to be ueed a burden carrier for th soldiery. They were given no opportunity to bid farewell to their fa ml I lee. although al-though aoma of tha women heard of the affair and came down to the train to plead for the men's release. re-lease. Only the old and weak were allowed to remain. Home of those men will return home, many will not, for when a man la taken more than 100 mllea away he seldom return; re-turn; he carries burden for a time, but growing to like the life finally becvm a soldier and goea off to capture burden carrier of hi own. V "It I affaire such aa thla which ar th moat depreaalng, but In om sect loyi a ao- towns have been deserted de-serted which are on the right of way for travel. Soldier generally pae along the moat frequented highway, and accordingly some town have changed hands ao often and endured urh heavy taxes that the Inhabitants mov away to some other place. NO FACTORIES. Speaking of Inauatrtel conditions. Dr. K verb &m draw a distinction between be-tween China and America when aha aald, "The factory system has nut been established there to any extent. ex-tent. All the work which Is done is performed in the homes and although al-though that. may seem dlsadvsn-tageou. dlsadvsn-tageou. It I proving otherwise. By embroidering, women are earning earn-ing aeveral do liar a month, and aa that aum haa conaldarable purchasing pur-chasing power in China, not only are tha women obtaining more re-apeot re-apeot and Independence, but the pawnshop ar being emptied. Previously Pre-viously families hav been o poor they war forced to pawn part of their belonging whenever a great feast day, a marriage or other function func-tion occurred, but they have now become so prosperous I learned from aeveral source that pawnbroker are experiencing a decline In bualnesa" bual-nesa" "Ye, wa hav labor strike, servant' serv-ant' unions, and th high coat of living In China, a In America," Dr. Kverham emlled. "But we need to remember that China la juat now learning to govern Itaelf, and that republican government haa ne tra- dltlona to support It. Many times 1 hava heard the question, 'What shall wa do about China and th student who ar th leader In China todav ar seeking to find the answer. Th dictatorship of Chen Kuang Ming promised much and It i began numeroua works, such aa public health board, and road, but ! all that wa stopped, by the ac ceaalon of Hun Tat Hen, who la mor i of an Ideal it than aa efflcUnt ax-ecu ax-ecu live. HI plan ar excellent, but when he attempt to put tfam Into work against ths opinion and desire of certain leaders, he fails. "Yet Just as the leaders are causing; caus-ing; trouble now, Dr. Kverham concluded, con-cluded, ao th belief of the Chine Chi-ne In leaders may help to remedy the situation when the young men who are educated, who have attended at-tended colleges and unlveralUea, com a Into power. Kven now they are exerting an Influence which ) coming to be felt mor and mur."