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NORTH CHINA
Rent Grabbers
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Revelation of the new-tactics of speculative landlords in issu- orders ing summary eviction against tenants, having previous- ly arranged to let the premises. at greatly higher rentals to tran- Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead's sient refugees, has produced
Per monthly, "Oriental Affairs" con- crop of fresh instances. tains a vivid account of condi-sons who thought themselves tions in North China since the isolated victims of the practice Japanese occupation. It is based find they are among many simil- on the reports of foreigners, both arly circumstanced and distress- missionaries and business
men, led.
The premises affected are, and on a survey of fifteen villages it is found, almost without ex- fin the province of Hopei. Its ception, flats in the $35 to $50 conclusion is that the interior is a month rating, which are just now "in a state of anarchy such within the capacity of lowly-paid as the North has not known since clerks and office assistants. The the great Nienfei disorders in inference, obviously, is that the the middle of the last century." landlords well aware of the diffi- The Japanese troops control the culty which their tenants now big towns, the railways, and ajexperience in making ends meet, few important river crossings, doubt their capacity to meet a and that is all. Five miles off demand for an increase in rental the railways there is no order of on anything like the scale obtain- any kind, and even the Japanese able from refugees, and have act forces have had to abandon any ed accordingly. In other words, attempt to maintain communica-poverty must suffer its own pun- tions on the roads and canals.ishment, and be ground Most of the Chinese officials have further in the cause of "sound fled, and none dares to take investment." That, at least, their place; even when promised how it will seem unless Govern- Japanese support they fear the ment does as is demanded and retribution of their compatriots. steps in.
The countryside has been thrown
back into universal banditry and
lawlessness. Only the Commun- Tinted Smoke ist agents who have penetrated
down
is
the Japanese lines are able to An ingenious and sanguine restore some semblance of .or- gentleman of Memphis, United der by organising the peasants States, has invented a new pea- into “Red guerrillas.” In some sure for women smokers. Hè districts Communists have even aims at providing cigarettes that taken over the work of police and will give off smoke of varied col- have set up local Governments ours according to the fancy of. under the very noses of the the ladies or as fashion may dic- Japanese "conquerors. In every tate. Otto L. Miller, who has village there has been loss of life this. original idea, has been and, more serious, of the har- granted a patent by the United vest.
As the war approached States Patent Office for a pro- there was a general exodus, and cess of treating cigarettes to many of the refugees have been achieve this end. In his state- unable to find their way back. If ment of the advantages to wo- man's destruction were not en-mankind that will follow the use ough to complete the misery of of his invention he says-
There these people, there has been a serious earthquake and wide-erly from a social standpoint, in are many applications, particul- spread floods, which in the pro-the use of the invention; for vince of Shantung have render-example, a type of cigarette.
ed two million homeless. It 18 made in accordance with the in this vast area of anarchy and present invention can be employ- destitution that the Japanese ed to produce a smoke which hope by force to create a par matches the
colour of ladies adise of economic co-operation." gowns or any other article of Premier's Confession?
wear, jewellery, or other sur- roundings, depending on the will or whim of the smoker." That Consciously or unconsciously, future social gatherings may be Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in his enveloped in kaleidoscopic clouds capacity as spokesman in the is a possibility of some promise.