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Show ROBIN HOODS OF CHINALOOT CITY POKING, Jan. 6. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Looting by robbers nn-1 levies by southern Chlhli. j ays report by a missionary engaged In famine relief work nt We!-hs1en. I near the Honan border. The troops with their demands for "contributions'- of grain, fodder and clothing are said to be worn affliction than the robbers. The latter are described as emulating Robin Hood in some respects re-spects In a recent raid nt Kang Chiav-tng. Chiav-tng. eight miles from Wei-tudon, where the homes of the wealthv Were Invaded. "As the robbers went from house to house, atoms of grain were opened up. Che-ts nf clothing broken open and the poor were dressed ami fed beyond the yle even of better days. Copper coins nnd small cash were heaped up In the streets and bartered at considerable consid-erable discount for silver dollars, for. ' like their distinguished prototype, the ' rhlnese Robin Hoods are not Impell-ed Impell-ed by purely pliha n t hroplc Impulse, but arc after plunder In the most Cr em portable and convertible form. While frankly aiming at th lion's , share, they showed sympathy for those weaker than themselves." The soldiers, instead of checking the , -1 . i.itions of the robbers, are desorjb- J I them and conniving at furnishing I them with ammunition, i "There Is first a parley." says the I writer; "then Ihe soldiers make an impetuous im-petuous charge and the brigands re- treat. The soldiei.s dig. at Indicated ' placee, and unearth money which has been boiled by the brigands. Into the holes in the ground they put ammunition ammu-nition and cover it up. Then the brigands bri-gands make a Counter-attack and tin-troops tin-troops retreat, leaving the former to recover tho buried ammunition." Not only are the i u-h b-trig reduced to poverty by the demands of the soldiery, sol-diery, but a large proportion of tho middle class population who might have been able to get through tho winter is fast becoming wholly dependent de-pendent upon public bensftclence, it i i alleged. |