Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-10-25 | Page 7 | Chinese Farmers Forced to Kidnap

CHINESE FORCED TO KIDNAP SA SAN FRANCISCO Oct 25 25 Is fa a business In China and the th of ot foreigners Is Isan isan Isan an outstanding of such 1 ac to Major Ti R RW RW W v Pinger U USA S A who ho was held e bv by bandits In the th Shan Shan- Shantung tune Shan tung province for tor 37 31 day days last spring and who ho recently arrived here on the army transport Grant All of the tho th lower loer classes cluses In Shantung take part In bandit raids occasionally Major er said of ners and ond hold hold- hold log IlIg them for ransom Is 19 the tho only way that some som of tho the coolies hae ha of obtaining mone money Of the th 2600 2500 who ho ca captured our party I oni a fw few hundred were professional robbers robber The Th others were pre simply ply witted halt farm ex fann es er who ho had been ben driven to ban ban- ban because of ot the detraction de of o otheir their farms Major a R graduate of the Uh of California had been detailed as aA professor of military science and tactics at that Institution Institution tion