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.
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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.
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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. The green-necked species, he
noted, flew at about eighty-five miles
an hour when mounting and about
ninety-five miles when in horizontal
flight. Lapwing were seen by the
aviator at over a mile and a half high.
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