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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1932
Horror And Beauty
Of Inner China
Dean Of Canterbury Writes. On Journey
He should be fated to lose his jam, or rather honey, as well. Now, more than at any time, life needs a little sweetening. But another speaker suggesta 蟲 remedy. It appears that bees: are communists only up to à point. Within the limits of a single hive they will give points to Stalin himself. But they have an intense dislike of mass production. "The humble bee- keeper with one hive in his 'back-yard" is their ideal. In mass production they lose that personal contact with their |keeper which they value so much; and though personal con- tact with a bee can in certain circumstances" be a
very un- pleasant thing, the keeper loses as well in keeping a factory instead of a hive. The way to mollify the bee and to improve the production of honey would seem, therefore, to be the home-l crofting movement. Dr. J. W. Scott sees no reason why the part of the article begun in yester This is the second and concluding family hive should not become day's Chino Mall, once more the rule. This is no bee in a professor's bonnet-no poet's wish to live alone in a bee-)
AN
ESCAPE FROM BANDITS
The Dean of Canterbury, who has been engaged on relief work in China, contributes the fol lowing account of a journey, which he made across the coun- try into Kansu and over the Tibetan border.
By the Dean of Canterbury.
the cause of order among a law- respecting people like the Chinese demands, and fills the land with ill- disciplined, ill-fed, and underpaid soldiers, the raw material of ban- dits. And so, besides the potty rob- bers who are found in all countries, one gets these bands of starving a rifle and the skill to use it. When men, whose only stock in "trade is
a rival general is defeated-one was treacherously assassinated by his military host at a feast just be the bands."
DANGEROUS PESTS.
We were delayed by some of thess
loud glade with nine bean rows The Liupan pass, rising to fore our arrival-his soldiers swell and one hive but sound policy; 10,000ft, presents the worst obsta- and, if it is pursued, we: may cle on the road through Western shortly see our back-yards stung China. We reached it in the dark into life and humming with ac and spent the night, as we had tivity. The bee will then contri-planned, in the small temple at its brigand troops on our return to the bute as much to the nation's foot. Evidences of the recent raid Liupan pass. In fierce conflict with breakfast-table as it now does to abounded. There were bullet-holes the ruling general they approached its stock of metaphors.
in the walls, in the roof, and the fire- the village where we slept. place. That night no bandits came:
gates were hurriedly sand-bagged, made a second raid and severely ing in ominous silence for what but before our return they had and the citizens bung around wait
fate would bring. Two lady mis--
CHINESE FARMERS SAD PLIGHT.
Yueh-sheng.
more
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on
maltreated the man in charge.
Its
Two oxen and a mule were harn- sionaries worked all alone in that essed to our car, and putting it in-isolated locality. Three years pre- to fourth gear we reached the sum-viously they had been robbed of all they possessed, stripped of their mit. Clouds sweeping around us outer momentarily parted and gave us a
clothes, slashed In
the two places on.
arm with glimpse down the zigzag path on
arts was struggling up, and behind
there. I have just
Authorities Seek For Remedy,
"Shanghai, Oct. 15.
the farther side, where an immense sword, and threatened with In view of the present acute convoy of blue-canopied. Peking revolvers. But when we urged, required. To say this is not to situation among the farmers as
abould the roud get clear, belittle ungenerously the admir-result of the overabundance
them again a train of 60 camels, that they should escape to a able work that has been done, or rice in Kiangsu province and the strange beasts lurching in single safer place in our car, they smiling- to suggest that it would be use abnormally low market prices, ale along the alpine pathway ly refused.. Their job and their - less to build roads. Unquestion number of prominent business-through the drifting clouds.
hearts, were We ably it is essential for the future men in Shanghai has organized awaited long before the track was learned, to my deep regret, that well-being of Western China that Food Committee to study measures clear, and then with gangs of coolles Mr. Horveth, a young engineer of there should be better com- for relief of the present situation, holding us back we descended to Russian parentage, who was one of In his account of his recent nications. But it must not The committee includes, among: hazardous journey across West-be supposed that roads alone will others, Messrs. Wang Hsiao-lai of the valley. From the days of Marco my companions in Kansu, has been
Polo men have dreaded the Liupan village where these ladies live.
murdered by bandits at Anking, the ern China and over the Tibetan case the burden under which the the Chamber of Commerce, Chang] border the Dean of Canterbury peasant exists or banish the Kia-ngau of the Bank of China. Pass. They dread it no longer. For It is easy to make too much of tells a story that brings into dangers that constantly threaten Chin Jen-ching, O.S. Lieu and Tu above us descending in noble sweeps
Bandits are down the mountain side, were the the bandit menace. relief the conditions of life as it his life. His lot will become is lived by the people of that casier and his existence
A study of the question by this curves of Major Todd's new road, only an incident: they do not oc- vast country. With Major Todd, secure only when if it be pos- committee shows that the present Nowhere does its gradient exceed 7cupy the whole field. A bigger fac- the American Chief Engineer of sible-stable, authoritative gov-state of affairs is not due to over- per cent.: man-drawn rickshas cantor is the orderly industrious life the China International Famine ernment can be created out of production of the cereal, but to traverse it, and motor-cars ascend of the community. Farmers at Reef formission, the Dean the convulsive heavings of to-stagnation in the money market, it on top gear. A 10-mile road has their toll in the field, children at travelled 1.600 miles, and he day. China is changing rapidly, impediments to communications vanquished the terror of ages at a their play; village and city streets describes what he saw. In that but effective government seems and transportation, and multifarious cost of £6.000. China paid £9,000, with blue-gowned merchants rest- America the rest.. Noble work, and ing elbows on high shop counters, remote land there is always to be far off in the future. Local taxes.
a mighty blow at banditry and law- and the sundry processes of manu- poverty and often famine authorities, safely far from Nan- The committee has therefore de-
| lessness."
facture-clothing and shoes, car- famine in which the peasants die king and "sure of both tax and cided to petition. the Government]
pets, umbrellas, rice, tobacco, and by thousands. The far-off Cen-fine" can still go their own way for the remission of taxes.
Bandits are still troublesome in combs-all proceeding in pictures- tral Government has little and encourage the growing of staples. reduction of railway trans- Kansu. Not a few times did they que profualon at open-fronted, win- authority, and petty military thousands of acres of poppies, so portation rates, and resumption of render our journey hazardous. One dowless shops along the narrow, chiefs, bandits, and highway rob-that the traveller may see hud- the granary system. At the same extraordinary
had crowded streets this and not ban- bers flourish, so that trade re- dled forms, drunk with opium, time, efforts will be directed to dis- Twenty miles west of the Liupan dits is the essential reality of life
we left importation of pass mains primitive. All these as-reclining in open-fronted temples couraging
in Western China Bandits and mounted a and sociated evils, with the suffering, and an "innkeeper's wife, on a foreign food supplies. Steps are track
hill the riyairy of feudal barons are to the world's, oldest the brutality, and the corruption couch in a hovel, doping herself to be taken to dispose of larger on
pests, though dangerous pests. A they cause, the Dean described to death." Banditry may be quantities of the staple to Kwang-motor road. Absolutely deserted, strong central Government should them and in his first article (which appear- merely incidental, as the Dean tung, Fukien, and other southern well tamped and drained, and un-in time overcome ed yesterday) as the const says; the "essential reality" may provinces and to seek assistance of harmed by weeds in this dry land, find in these people valuable. quences of poor communications. be the orderly industrious life of local bankera in extending cre- it was built by Feng, the Christian allies; and the Government at. Fair stretches of mud road go the mass; but the persistence of dita to facilitate such inter-pro- general, and runs for 60 miles Nanking is even now not quite inac switch-backwise in a serpentine tive, despite its "serious handicaps. out from the towns, but the banditry does not indicate the vincial transactions. tracks that connect these roads approach of stability. The coun- It is understood that the Com- direction westwards along the crest It welcomes road-building, though traverse deserts. ravines, river try cannot wait, however, for a mittee favours the opening of emer- of Loess mountains, 6,000ft. high the struggle with Japan cripples its beds, and gradients ascending system of government that would geney granaries at Changahu, Soo-It commands glorious views down terraced slopes for these nearly one in three over moun- give it all the roads it requires, chow, Wusih, Wutsin, Kiangtu and the tains 6,000 feet, 8,000 feet, or and the road which Major Todd Hsuchow, the rice-producing dismountains are cultivated from top Nanking is also active in another even 10,000 feet high." The has built over the Liupan pass tricts of Kiangau. The provincial to bottom and on to the blue way, for the first aeroplane of a motor truck in which the Deanlike the dam he has thrown and district authorities will be ap- Tibetan peaks. Sixty miles of road new air service connecting Loyang travelled had to be helped over across the King River to irrigate proached in this matter.-Kuo Min. of the 700 needed to connect Tung with Lanchow arrived at the mo the worst obstacles by men, 70,000 acres is, in the Dean's) mules, and oxen. It is easy to phrase," "noble work" Roads are imagine the isolation of such an a great civilizing influence, and immense country, served for the no one would deny the fustice of His Excellency the O.A.G. has most part by those inadequate the assertion of the Governor of ordered the recission of the order tracks, and at Brat glance it Shansi-quoted by the Dean in of August 18, which declared seems logical to ascribe the his second article to-day-that Dairen to be an infected port on poverty and the disorder to such what China.needs most urgently account of cholera. miserable communications.... It are communications, seems reasonable, too, to assume tion, and religion.”
that a proper system of roads]
educa-
the.
News In Brief.
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escape we
the
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kwan will Lanchow already provid- ment we arrived: we drove the Ger ed: only the graded connexions with man airman to the city from the the valleys at either end are lack landing ground. Aeroplanes can- ing.
not take the place offroadayibut Darkness made us seek shelter in they can link up distant cities for
special purposes, and they certain so the yard of a lonely mule inn. Our strengthen the civil government car could not enter so we left it in
at Lanchow. And it needs their charge of peasants outside”: Short- sid. - Dificult tasks, await it. None ly after midnight dogs barked fler know this better than the new Mr. S. S. Mamak, donor of cely and horses came clattering up governor, a former secretary of the the Mamak Hockey Shield and Lord sounds were followed by ait Chinese President, who gave us the
would at least mitigate these Depression in the Bee Proprietor of Mamak & Co eous cries of the peasants at the honour, of a feast. There we learn
evils. But the matter is not sa
World.
simple as that. It might be argued with equal, if not greater, force that the feeble hold" of It is now some two centuries authority, with all its attendant since the plous Dr. Isaac Watts hardships, is not the result of exclaimed
Local sports outfitters, left the gate. Immediately afterwards Ad much elsewhere we learned Colony by the s.. Nalders to-day, gun was fired close beside us. Thes that 205 out of every £100, of re- for Bombay on a short furlough. silence. Our missionary, always During Mr. Mamak's absence, his cool, crept out to reconnoitre, and Venue is spent upon the local army,
leaving 25 only for social services." nephew, Mr. K. S. Pioneer will be in learned that armed bandits had at- We learnt too, and without wonder, charge of the store."
rived in force, pounced upon the that out of a population of 5,000,000 car, and a minute later would have fewer than 1,500 children
I the want of roads, but that the How doth the little busy bee
poor communications are the re- Improve each shining hour! Lady Ho Tung and prominent been in the lon. At that opportune received secondary, and fewer sult of weak government. More but it is only recently that the Hong Kong doctors and their wives moment a farmer-fred-bis gun in over it by no means follows that true point of his observation has were present at the dinner party the darkness. The bandits took than 60 youths received anything approaching higher, education. more and better roads would dis- been exposed by Lord Plymouth last night given by Dr. K. W. Ip sadden alarm, suspecting a military The young Government officials, courage the military satrap and Not each hour, let it be noted; and Mrs. Ip at the Chinese Mer ambush, and galloped off. The graduates of Nanning experience the bandit. On the contrary, does the bee improve, but each chants' Club in honour of the Hong next village fared worse, being those who are accustomed to shining hour, and the adjective Konk delegation which returned re completely looted. prey on their weaker brethren is due no less to a careful ac- cently after attending the First might find good road
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