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SLAVERY IN BELGIUM,
THE NEW METHOD.
Abundant and authentic information. has now demonstrated that the Germans,
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THE MONEY CHANGERS. EXPERIENCES OF A TRAVELLER IN THE ORIENT
He
**UNKOWN WOMAN” REAL WIFE.
AS
AMUSING DIVORCE SEQUEL
An amazing
came before Sir Samuel Evans in the Divores Court, re cuntly, when the King's Proctor asked the court to upsel a decree misi granted by. Mr. Justice Shearman in June, 1916, to
SWATOW NOTES,
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Swarow, July 23rd. SWATOW'S VIEW OF THE RESTORATION. '.
It was accepted as a foregone con- clusion that the resuscitated Monarchy would not exist for long. Had the young monarch the vision of a bat he would Had Chang
woman unknown," and the suggestion now was that the misconduct alleged was, in fact, with the man's own real wife,
Mrs. Anschl (the "woman unknown"), giving evidence said she was the divererdager for his head. The correspondence wife of Mr. Edward Wittrcombe; whom which passed between Tuan and Chang she married in 1885. She married Mr we are promised by the latter, and, Ansell in Durban in 1906, and they lived; nccording to report, it will prove how in Canada till 1912, when her husband traitorous Tuan really has born. Tuan came to England. She returned in 1915, is regarded as n and later saw Miss Gramshaw the woman who hired Chang to attempt the mad her husband had gone through the core scheme which was bound to end in disaster, mony of marriage with) and her mother | but, at the same time, afforded Tuan the and satisfied them that she (the witness) opportunity which he sought, ever since was the man's wife. Her husband was his expulsion from the Premiership, of thongin prison for fraud. After his regaining high favour in public esteem at lease she took rooms in Gower Street and the head of a victorious army. they lived there.
most skilful schemer,
With mixed feelings of gladness and so far from abandoning their policy of sorrow the traveller in the Orient remem slavery in Belgium, have lately been purbers the Biblical story of the scourging sulug it along new lines,
of the money-changers from the temple, Under pressure, they gave various pro Perhaps lie sorrow comes first, because mises to the world in general, and to the Pope in particular, that they would stop as he pursues his way through the rami- Vera Mary Ansell, of Warwick-avenue, have refused the crown. the deportations. But all that they have fications of half a hundred different Maida Vale, on Um ground that, a pres Hsun as much sense as daring he would done is to abandon the pretext of un monetary systems, he feels that after thevious marriage of the husband still not have attempted the soup. One cannot employo, at as a ground for deporta tion, and they have now falien back on scourging of old, the forebears of the pre-existed. She alleged against her "hus help admiring his courage and the swift- what is practically the application to sent day twenty thousand money changere band," Mr. Trelawney Clarence Ansellness with which he accomplished his self- Belgium in an aggravated form, of the system of auxilary service" which was must also have been exiled to Colombe cruelty and also misconduct with a imposed task. Now, however, it is stated instituted in Germany by the Auxiliary and further East, and be feels that to
that he was encouraged to act as he had by Service Law of December, 1910. They have been distinctly unfair to him, are also falling back upon a provision in
none other than the hold leader of the the original deportation decres of Octo is glad to remember, however, that t
Republican Army, Tuan Chi-jui, the ber 3rd, 1916, that every inhabitant least on one momentous occasion in his
man who is now--in appearance, at least of Belgium is bound to assist the authori- ties in case of emergency. Thus, while tory the greasy money changer got pro- the unemployment pretence which perly 'strafed,'' and not beyond his justified the Belgian slave raids between deserts. He waid he happier still could October, 1916, and February, 1917, has had to be abandoned, new foundations he believe that history repeats itself in for new slave raids have been invented.
larger doses. Siner January, at any rate, boys, old men, and women have been compelled to work for the German Army-in the name of auxiliary service in the Army zone of Flanders, and a notice signed by the Inspector General, by name VON Schilfus, acnounced the inhabitants of commune in West Flanders for not hav ing presented themselves before January ard, although "called up for auxiliary service," There is similar information from the Belgian-Dutch frontier. In the Army zone of Mons General von Below posted a notice on March 14th recalling The money changer in Shanghai is the the terms of the deportation decree of October 3rd and proclaiming the whole most picturesque thief of all.' He trades area of the First Army to be in the state on a úctitious money standard, and des The President: Wore you living ther of emergency which, as already explain- ed, empowers the German authorities to lights in seeing the cupidity of the travel- as man and wife -The witness: No; Call upon "every inhabitant." In ac ler bring about his own downfall. Let was recognised as the aunt
The witness agreed that they did in cordance with this proclamation, the
me explain. In China, as everybody fact live together. She was there when ship, or to be styled “ Imperator," and town of Mons was required to provide, on April 16th. 500 labourers the knows, the unit is the tel. Nobody has her husband was served with the divored probably not much sort of that would call being on students, small shopkeepers ever seen a tack to my knowledge. Maybe papers and they discussed the matter. He sait Tuan. That, I believe, is the reading
husband said he would have to see a and innkeepers, waiters and clerks.
It has solicitor and have the case stopped, as of his character according to Chineses About the same time calling-up notices it does exist, but I doubt it.
there could be no divorce because thereminds in this region so far us
I can for both men and women were issued in gone, like the sovereign will go. It is
was no legal marriage. She remonstrated the Army zone of Belgian Luxemburg. a business legend. The actual unit of
gather. The following typical notice was issued sale and purchase is the Mexican dollar, with Mrs, Granshaw and her daughter for at Jamoigne on May 1st to the men mark-which is of silver when it isnt of pewter, taking the proceedings and asked then ed for deportation :—
to have the case stopped. They told her they would have to be guided by their solicitor. She also saw the soliciter and be paying a visit to Swalow. He is told him if he took the case to court he popular in the Canton Province at least. would not have, a leg to stand upon as 1 understand that he now holds aloof she was Mrs. Ansell, and he said he had.
from polítics, taking no direct part in heard remarkt like that before.
them; but in the largest political party in the state, viz., the Kuomintang be
You are ordered to go to-morrow morning 530 to the Kommandantur, with food for three days, clothing, and boots, in order to be deported. you do not come you will be heavily punished."N
There is no great distinction between the money changers of the Orient. They are just pests and pirates, From the first one that climbs the accommodation ladder and lies about the rate of exchange since you left the last port, to the benign old gentleman with the tortoiio-shell spectacles who presides over the money exchange bank.
AB HUSBAND'S aunt.
Her husband joined the Army in 1913 After seeing the report of the divorce proceedings in the newspapers she saw
King's Pretor.
What will Tuna do next is the ques- tim. A democratic republic is not his ideal, and that is, evidently what the
Chinese Provinces demand. A dictators
SN VAT-SEN'S VISIT.
The well-known patriot, Sun Vun, has
and that is frequently. Just why China should have adopted the coinage of a distant, and politically disreputable, ighting, brawling, paper-money faking country like Mexico as a medium of ex change, I don't know, but there are wise people who do. The Mexican dollar is It is also curtain that the new deporta about us big as the American silver tion policy affects not only the Army dollar, and about half as valuable zone, but also the parts of Belgium which When genuine it is, as stated, made of are under the German Governor-General.silver, richly inlaid with dirt and grease.ler solicitor, who communicated with the is regarded as one of its chief founders, During the first fortnight in May a trai If the authorities washed and disinfected containing 400 young men left Etterbeek, the whole stock of Mexican dollars in In cross-examination by Sir Edward and his advice would probably be follow. usular of Brussels. At Liége and Ching they might reduce the death rate Marshall-Hall (who appeared for the Mons Belgians belonging to the Rd Considerably, but nobody would recognise second "rift"), the witness said that she Cross have been called up for the service.
When there isn't know the woman who went through the of the German wounded in the field..
these dollars Le worth should be added that
hons 2/4.. They beat, yane mysterious form of marriage with her husband had celation to the tael which nobody
een able to fathom, and as the war has put up the price of silver, even when alloyed with dirt and grense, the Mexican dollar has gone up in sympathy with the tal, though if the incl be dead, and so spared the handling that it would get in dirty China, it is hard to see why it should be sympathised with. Of course, the whole explanation is very unsatis factory, but this is how it was explained
pass it on. Lo ine, and I
anxiliary servingain.
is by no means always in Belgium. The deportations to the German front in France contine, and during the second fortnight of May 300 men were carried off for military road-building in the neighbourhood of Montmédy and for the construction of railways in the region of
Metz,----7'mmes,
THE MAPHING MACHINES.
HOW ENEMY POSITIONS ARE
PHOTOGRAPHED.
child.. Ble had offered to adopt it. he denied that the joined with her hus band in an attempt to steal the child.
HUSBAND IN KHAKI. Lieutenant Ansell, who appeared in khaki in the company of prison warders, answering counsel, Raid: When 1 came out of prison I offered to surrender to a proscention for bigamy, and the polic refused to proserpic.
Sir Edward Marshall-Hall said, in view of the videnen, he could not resist the order asked for by the King's. Proctor. The petitioner, however, had been very barly treated by the real Mrs. Ansell, because she could perfectly wall have been
petition.
Flying at a height of 6,000-higher than the summit of Ben Nevis from along to a money changer with a dollar commanitated with at the time of the level the military aerial photographer secures reconnaissance pictures which are ao clar in their detail that they reveal not only the Geriaan trenches but the barbed wire.
Now the silver Mexican dollar, is so valuable as a piece of silver that in Shanghai the other day you could get $1.15 for it in small change. It looked too good to be true, but when I werkt and received $1.14 in five and ten pinces I was so astonished that I forgot to have a row over the cent. I looked like the most substantial get-rich-quick thing I had ever seen in Anterien, Asia or else where. All one had to do was to buy silver dollars with paper bills, taking care to demand dollar pieres in a loud:
How is it done? That is the secret of certain unknown experts in the R.F.C. There is a special camera (not a bit like the ones you see in dealers' windows),
voice, and also to ring them well to see And that special camera is at this moment making its infallible bird'seye, sus lasury on the interest that could be made that they were silver, and then live in maps not only of the enemy's lines in France and Flanders but also at Salonics as fast as one could self the dollars. 1 and in Africa and in Syria and Most gured that about two hours' work a day potamia. Everywhore, in whatarer buying and selling dollars would leave theatre we are waging war, the camera is eight hours a day free-alter the our most valued spy. For the camera is time spent in disinfecting myself-for never tricked by camouflage or fake forthbridge and billiards. The odd change fications or inocenpied trenches, or any of the other host of frightfulresses (not always so frightful as they look), which area confusion to the cleverest human eye | and brain. And the camera's unbiarsal. all-seeing pictures, brought back, can be cross-examined leisure by &
dozen students each in his separate room, and each wresting from the wordless witness some fresh and significant secret.
PICTURE SERIALS.
The President directed that the deeree should be set aside and gave the King's Proctor CoRLS,
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
PARADES.
ed by a large number of them on any important Stats question. Like the late resident, he is not inclined to take part in a strenuous political life. His visit to Swatow has probably been prolonged owing to lack of bouts or stress of wra ther, or both,
A WEER WITHOUT NEWE.
That reminds me that we have been a whole week, almust without any authentic nows of the war or ruin of Chinn, because the local papers do not give us the news we desire. We can only get such news from other than local papers.
A DELUGE,
We have been having quite a delugo of vain. For a fortnight we have scarcely seen the san. The natives delight in it, for up on the bill valleys the paddy is being planted. Fortunately at this stage it can bear any amount of ruản.
THE LAUNCH SERVICE.
Thursday, August 2nd.--No. 3 Company,· The launch-company-one of whose Central, 5.45 pan Uniform-White, launches, crowded with people, met with
belmets.
Friday, August ord-Route Mangleorder such a lamentable disaster last year in
ed for this date is cancelled,
CONCERT.
the harbour- is now about to launch a
A Concert will be held in the Police new boat in place of that lost," which Reserve Headquarters' Club.com Wel.still floats, a melanololy object, at one nesday, August 8th, at 9 p.m.
Tickets for admission to same will be of the Kityang jetties. After a year or ready on Saturrloy, August 4th, and more of silence the idea probably is to may be obtained from the No. 1 Bog have this same launch repaired and put at the Club.
on the run. During all these months the Company has een running only one boat, so that their dividends cannot have been high.
A.S.P. (R.).
(Sd.) T. F. Hoton,
1st August, 1917.
SHELL FACTORY NO LONGER
WANTED.
Launches have multiplied greatly bu the rivers, and they succeed in navigating portions of the Han and its tributaries
could be most usefully spent, even assum- ingy financial transactions were not as large as 1 hoped, but I had great ought that at Inst the ordinary person ideas. I was also spurred on by the as getting the better of the money- The first morning after this changer. grand discovery I bought and sold 20. genuine silver dollars, and bought, but dia not sell ong of some base metal. As the result of ten minutes of modern trade What tales those reconnatasance photo had dollar which I hoped to be able to I was in pocket $2.30, not counting the graphs have told! Sometimes the story i
15 a serial in three parts: first a picture of PASS. At the end of an hour I had made a given tract of country, then
second something like eight dollars, and had
developed a list to port of ten degrees The Minister of Munitions, in a state- Picture with a suspicions mark at a cet with carrying round, in one pocket about ment issued recently, announces that, in which a few years ago were considered nineteen pounds weight of small coin: 1 view of the situation created by the entry was working on a system of carrying bills of the Unite pre dicided that it is no and silver dollars in one pocket and War Cabinet have small stuff in the other. Later on, when longer necessary to proceed with the eree. all bills and dollar, luid been changed, tion of the large explosives factory now
trimmied the cargo and walked more under construction near Bristol: evenly I went along to the cable office Instructions have accordingly ben resign the job I was after in Japan issued that steps are to be taken to bring The cablegram was carefully worded, got the work to an end as soon as possible, to give ofience, and money was really with due regard to the question of creat no object. The cost was 88.40 I prning as little hardship and dislocation duced two or three pounds of small among the workmen and supplies as change. Then I awoke The cable com circumstances will allow. onny did not accept one hundred of that kind of cent on the dollar. They wanted 178. They also advised me that the
tain spot, then a third picture with this mark
almost seldom -quite-invisible. So the serial boasts a grim yet humerous enilogue a fourth photograph taken over the self-same area, and in it, where the mysterious mark appeared and disappear ed, is a neat local rash of shell-holes, with a few pools of water lying in them to seal the graves of Fritz's endeavour
is the kind of work which the camera is doing to help to win the war, But the photographing itself is not all negatives must by developed and printed with * promptitude and delicate per
which have never before been equalled in the history of the art, be of three men in the photographic section of the R.F.C., can turn out 100 imblemishi ed enlargement, per hour. To train them for this suced in craftmanship special intensive schools have been established in England. At these schools the technine
·Samo
was cbtained everywhere for small coins the attempt to get even with the money tendered in payment of, substantial ac changers, I noticed my pockets did not connte. I took the cablegram back and bulge as they had done in the moments rushed around, clanking and linking of my ecstacy, Something clinked on like a Yokohama fire watchinian, to make the tiled floor of the cable office. I grab
impracticable. They are being penalised
for their success. Hitherto they have been immune from taxation; now they are' called upon to pay taxes and they are grumbling and refusing to run. ·OI course, they must pay like the rest of the community. A small launch negotiates
very difficult piece of river between
a market town called Ishing Hen and Kitying, one of the old Chowa now re- duced to a county town. As, under the Monarchy, Kityang takes a prominent. part in education, her intellectuals' are to be met with everywhere. In business they are successful, and they both im migrate and emigrate in considerable numbers, Tod
A RUSPICIOUS ANTIDOTE FOR OPIUM.
of developing and printing is crammed in further inquiries. Too true. I was done bed for my change. The cablegram this In the chemists shops, there is a cla' 6 a manner previously undreamt of. For by the money changer again. Nobody time was to cost 83.50. I had just 84.10. of medicine sold to those who are giv there is no time to wast, The commands wanted 100, cents for a dollar, but all The small change had worn holes in my up the epium babit, and, as an antidir. are relamouring for photographers wanted 116, and I had bought at 1151 pockets, and for two miles up and down it has been proving very effective. the Bund I had been sowing seeds of Suspicion has been aroused as to the thesmart" Press photographer, nor the at best... amateur snapshotter, but the new scicuti
I went back and sent off a cablegram kindness to be reaped by the countless contents of this medicine, and it is report. The millions of Chinese cooles. Yes, theed that it contains a sufficient amount of fic Tommy Athina, who uses sheets of Sailing first thing morning." bromid- naper by the gross and wastes heaviness of my heart had made me over-money changers werk properly treated in morphis to satisfy the craving for opium..... GRACA & CO. not a shillings worth of it, and who look the heaviness of my pocket. Now Jerusalem, I hope the scourge was If this is found to be the case an un- handle hundreds of plates without spoil that I was sober and sane once more after dipped in brine L. . in the Japan pleasant hour awaits our wily chemiste ing one.-Deily Chronicle.
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