Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1920 — The Story of Hunan. [ARTICLE]

The Story of Hunan.

A missionary from Yochaw City, Hunan, is authority for a sad story of one of the backwaters of thfe Russian revolution. Three years ago Hunan was one of the most prosperous provinces in China and by rail and caravan millions of dollars worth of exports went from there to Russia. The blockade of Russia ruined most of Hunan. Factories closed. Rich merchants have become bankrupt and their sons have taken to banditry. The people of Hunan, says the missionary, do not know where to find the moral. Either, say they, revolutions are wrong, or blockading- revolutions are wrong, or why should spiders spin webs and weeds grow where once busy men of Hunan bent over the earth as happy farmera should?