SAVED BY A RUSE
Five hundred wooden soldiers recent ly saved the city of Yarkand, in Chinese Turkestan, from a rebel army. All the carpenters of the city were pressed into scrvicn to make the figures, which were life-size and were, put up to man the walls on'the approach of the enemy. A seven-years' war has been raging in the country since the old Chinese Yang Tscnghsin, who had ruled well, was murdered by rival officials. The population of Chineso Turkestan, more than 10,000.000 in number, consists mainly of various tribes, many of them not of Chinese, origin.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 5
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98SAVED BY A RUSE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 5
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