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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1916. 11 A RDGGED WARRIOR IS CHINESE POWER General Hsun Anchors Army at Strategic Points Along Railway Lines. PEKING WATCHES HIM (Correspondence of tho Associated Press.) Peking, Nov. 1. General Chang Hsun is the man of the hour in China. Members of all parties and factions are keeping their eyes on the rugged old warrior, who has control of the railway connecting Shanghai with Peking and holds the most important strategic position in China. Chang Hsun is the military gov ernor of Anhwei province, and is sup posed to live in that province togeth rr with his Dowerful armv. But Anhwei province is not located along the important north ana soutn rail way conneetine Peking and Shang hai" Consequently General Chang Hsun has moved his forces to Hsu chowfu, in Kiangsu province, where he commands the railway and holds a powerful club over the head of the Peking government, as well as over the various tactions which are enacav oring to upset the present govern. menr. Manv nrnniinent Chinese who de- sire to travel from South China and Shanghai to Peking arc compelled to make the trip from Shanghai to Tien Tsin by sea. as they dare not pass through Hsuchowfu and run the risk of railing iniu -na"e; uau o ibvjo, A Vital Factor. The conference of military lead ers, which General Chang Hstm re cently held at Hsuchowfu, created a great hubbub in political circles. This meeting was called for the purpose of forestalling action on the part of the parliamentarians unfavorable to the military and was a vital factor in preventing Tang Shao-yi's accept ance of the ministry 01 torcign anairs The conference adopted resolutions against the appointment of Tang Shao-yi and also resolved against the endorsement of the present minister of justice, Chang Yao-tseng. Parlia mentarians railed against the Hsuch owfu conference, and have adopted resolutions denunciatory of General Chang Hsun and his associates, but the intrepid old warrior has not been moved by any such action and stern ly refused to return to his post in Anhwei province. Demands have been made by the press and public for the punishment of General Chang Hsun. He has been denounced as a military tyrant, who is defying all organized authority in China. However, the government is apparently powerless to drive him out of his important position. A policy of reconciliation - has been adopted, and he is mentioned as a probable candidate for the vice presi dency. Knows His Power. Jt is unlikely, however, that he would accept the office of vice presi dent, were it offered him on condition that he comes to Peking. He is more powerful at Hsuchowfu than any other man in China, and has shown no disposition to yield this advan tage. General Chang Hsun is an old time Chinese, who has been prominent in military affairs for many years. He first came into prominence in Sze chuen province, and was later commander-in-chief in Kansu province. In 1911 he was commander-in-chief at Nanking when that city was attacked by the revolutionary forces, and made a masterly retreat to the northern bank of the Yang-tse river. He then commandeered a large quantity of the rolling stock of the railway between Nanking and Tien-Tsin, and made it a movable camp for his forces. He waged war in a barbarous manner, but won great admiration from mili tary men by the wonderful discipline he maintained among his troops and the effective manner in which he po liced the railway. His support of the crumpling Manchu dynasty was very effective, and after the republic was established it was necessary for the Peking government to reconcile him by giving him important posts. He has stoutly refused to accept any ap pointment which would carry mm away from the railway which is the life blood of China, and is building up a great army which is loyal to him rather than to the central govern ment. Keeps Pig-Tail. General Chang Hsun has stub bornly refused to have his queue cut off, and all ot his soldiers have fol lowed his example. Chang Hsun's troops are always referred to by the Chinese further north as the pig-tail soldiers. They are notorious for their brutality, and are more feared than any other troops in China. Korean Leper Eats Little Boy as Cure (Correspondence of The Associated Preen.) Seoul, Korea, Oct. 30. Justifying his act by the Korean superstition that the eating of human flesh is a cure for leprosy, a Korean leper named Sin Yungsyun has confessed to the murder of a five-year-old boy whose mutilated body was discovered in a field in South Cholla province. According to the police the accused also admitted that with another leper he killed a girl in the mountains on September IS, and that both had eaten of her flesh. Lepers in Korea hitherto led a miserable life. With the exception of those cared for bv missionaries in a small hospital near Fusan, they have been left to roam at will ana elee out their own living. The superstition as to cannibal cure is ver general. Not infreauentlv cannibalism has been reportetd from the remote dis tricts. Count Terauchi, until recently governor-general, took up the leper problem vigorously last year and as a result an island called Sorok off the southern coast of Korea has been selected as the seat of a leper asy lum. It is proposed to take in at first some hundred lepers selected from the thirteen provinces in proportion to the number in each. During their stay on the island the lepers will he taught modern farming. Bee Want Ads Produce Results. MEDICAL ARMY TO CARE FORSOLDIERS Organization of Physicians and Surgeons on Border Is Best in Country. GREAT CAMP HOSPITALS (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 18. With in the last five months the most com plete medical organization known to the United States army has been de veloped to care for the 150,000 state and regular troops stationed at bor der points and in Mexico. The system includes five base hos pitals, located at strategic points in the long s'tretch of border territory; eight camp hospitals at other points where troops are stationed, a canton ment hospital at Columbus, N. M., to serve the force on duty in Mexico, and twenty-six ambulance companies and forty-one field hospitals dis tributed among troops in the field. The base and camp hospitals afford accommodation for a total of 4,600 patients and have medical and surgi cal facilities equal to the final hos pitals. Not more than half the beds have been occupied at any time since the nation's militia strength was called into the federal service, but the room is available in case of need. Hospital Train. Back of this array is the potential organization. A hospital train of ten Pullman cars, with a capacity of 250 patients, has been placed in use to transport patients from the camp to the hase hosDitals and from base hos pitals to general military hospitals in ' various parts ot trie country, snouio a campaign in Mexico be undertaken. These larger institutions are the Wal ter Reed hospital at Washington, the General Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., and the Lettifnann hospital at San Francisco. About 1, 200 beds are vacant in the three hos pitals at the present time. In addition, a number of army posts have been selected for transportation into general hospitals in case 'of emergency. This list includes Fort McPherson, at Atlanta; Fort Ogle thorpe, also in Georgia; Fort Ben jamin Harrison, Indianapolis and other army stations where barracks are available for hospital purposes. Complete Equipment. The medical corps has complete equipment in storage for twenty evacuation hospitals and two base hospitals. An evacuation hospital takes care of 300 patients and a base hospital accommodates 500, so the total reserve equipment ready for use at a moment's notice is sufficient for 6,000 men. Evacuation hospitals are entirely under canvas, and are intend ed for use along an extended line . of communication. The base hospitals now in service are located at Fort Sam Houston, Fort Bliss, Brownsville, Eagle Pass and Nogales. Serving as feeders for these institutions are the camp hos pitals located at the following points: Laredo, 120 beds; Del Rio, 75 beds; Marfa. 150 beds; Deming, 180 beds; Douglas, 300 beds; Llano Grande, 200 beds; McAllen, 150 beds, and Fori Clark, 150 beds. Last July when state troops began arriving at the border the only army establishments for the care of sick were the post hospitals at Fort Sam Houston and Fort Bliss and much smaller places at Laredo and a few other border points. Practically the entire system of base and camp hos pitals has been built since the call on the National Guard was made. New Health Record. As a result of the scientific meth ods adopted by the medical corps and the steps taken to insure absolute sanitation in border camps, the big command of regulars and militia has set a new health record. From May 1 to October 31 there were only seventy-five deaths from disease in the force of more 150,000 and of this smaH number only twenty-one deaths were due to infectious maladies. Typhoid fever was formerly the worst scourge of camp, but it has no place among the troops along tiir Mexican border. From May I to Oc tober 18 only twenty-onr cases of ty phoid developed and no deaths re sulted from the disease. All of these cases were among the National Guard organizations, where in some in stances the men were not inoculated with typhum serum until after regi ments had come to the border. There was my a single case among the 42, 000 trc 'ops of the regular army en gaged in patrol duty and stationed in Mexico with General Pershing's com mand. In Spanish-American war days over a period of eight months in 1898. among 147,000 regulars and vol unteers, the typhoid epidemic reached the enormous total of 21,000 cases and there were 2,192 deaths from the disease. Ihsnrereue Brunehlal Cough. Dr. King's New Discovery will give quick relief In bronchial Irritation and bronchial asthma, allays Inflammation, eases sore spots. All drumrlsla. Advertisement. French Aviator Learns Flying Art From Birds (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Paris, Nov. 15. A French army aviator, Captain G., when not direct ing the squadron he commands, gives his attention to the ways of certain birds in the air. He has observed that swallows when migrating fly at an elevation of about 800 yards, while wild ducks, at a similar period, fly as high as 2,000 yards. 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