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THE VOLUNTEER INSPECTION THE TIENTSIN CONFERENCE.
AT SHANGHAIĻ.
The following article is contributed to MAJOR-GENERAL KIRKPATRICK's | the NC. Dolly Neiri by one whớ, speak.
BUSY WEEK.
ing and reading Chineso diently, is a etose student, of the Chinese press and Chinese affairs...
Major-General Sir George Kirkpatrick, K.C... K.C.S.L., Commanding H.M. troops in China, lett Shanghai, on May The so-called Thehans' couference held 14th, for Nanking. He proposes to make rently in Tiestain attracted much at a tour of the north and his return to
,
Shanghai, e run for Hongkong, is extention in the Chinese Press but pussel, peeted about the end of June. It is for the most part, unheeded by foreign. hoped it any then be possible, saya theers. It was not, however, in reality a 370. Daily News, to arrange for the ceremonial parade which was to have conference at Tuchun's bat, a private been a feature of inspection but which meeting "of the thire, most powerful had to be abandoned owing to rain and leaders of that frateruity. Chang Two- the bad condition of the ground.
The Inspecting Officer has spent a very in of Manchurin, Traa Kun of Chihli busy week with the S.V,C., and although and Wang Chan-yuap of Hupeh are un he has made no report yet on his obser- doubtedly the three most powerful men vations, is understood to have been very in China today and anything they do well pensed with the organization genes rally and the work of the various units, cd on and determinal to carry out They were inspected individually during has much more chance of being carried the week, beginning on Sunday afternoon into effect than the nundates of the Pre- last, when "B" Company, British and the Chinese company paraded in full sident and his Cabinet in Poking. service marching order at their mobili. It would, perhaps,«be over-stating the zation statious. At these parades, the case if we said that public opinion, so. men were carefully examined with regard far na it is articulate, regarded this to the duties allotted to them in time "confessuce as a meeting of three power- of trouble. The luspecting Officer after, ful conspirators but such a staternent wards visited the Rifle Range.
would not be very wide of the truth. Blonday morning was occupied, with For these three men are the embodiment other matters, in looking round the Drill of itarian or the rule of might, and Had and the new Headquarters in the Chinese press professes to desi ru comse of preparation, In the evening, above all things the abolition of the mili "A Company, the American Company,tary power and the restoration of repre the Japanese Company, and the Shanghai esite is peace and liberly to
sentatives gogerument. What the people. Scottish, were inspected at drill on the their domestic affairs in quietness, nei; Polo Ground. On this occasion, Major:ther harassed by brigands nor oppressed General Kirkpatrick was much interested by a rapitcious soidery. Though all the in the portable knife-rest barbed wire subjects of discussion at the conference, entanglement, invented by Sergt.-Major have not been reported it is safe to my Mackenzie, of the Engineer Company. that these reasonable desires were not so and constructed by members of the com much as taken into consideration: What pany. The rapid method of erecting and have the stupid people to do with the disdantling the barrier-wa, demonstrat- | affairs of state! ed, and the Inspecting Officer expressed the opinion that the invention is excel lency adapted to the special purpose for which it has been made.
The arnioured car, constructed by the New Engineering and Shipbuilding Works was inspected on Wednesday morning, and in the evening the Machine Gun Company and the Maritime Com pany went through their gun drill at the Drill Hall, where the Field Artillery Battery was afterwards taken in standing gun drill, and Signallers exercised in communication duties...
THE
GREAT EARTHQUAKE
IN CHINA.'
...
pursue
The obsequious attitude of the Govern ment towards these powerful Bubor- dinistes was most marked. The Premier hurried backwards and forwards between Peking and Tientsin and hastened to offer to make any changes in hie-cabinet which would reader it more acceptable to those whom he recognized to be his masters. Whatever changes may ulti- mately be made will, of course, make no difference to the netual administra- tion; it in merely
arrangement whereby the protégés of each of the three Tachina will get equal nibbles as After inspection of the Customs Com-the national cheese. pany at the Drill Hall on Thursday even.. The Premier's hope was that he would ing, the Major-General reviewed the be able to demonstrate that the Central Light Horse on parade in the Race Club Lovernment was in desperate stralia for compound, this being followed by a funds. The schools and colleges were march past on the inner course. The closed as the teachers had not been paid troop afterwards curried out a small at for months and students were parading" tacking scheme upon an objective in the the streets of the capital with flags bear- centre of the Recreation Ground. Reng inscriptions demanding that their turning to the Deil Hall, the General Instructors be no longer starved, The inspected the Portuguese Company, the officers of the disbanded 11th division Italian Company and the British Infantry had gone to Peking and squatted in the Reserves. On each occasion, a short demanding to know how they and their courtyard of the Ministry of Finance speech was made and satisfaction families were to live since they were dis- pressed with the work generally,
charged without the arrears of pay that was due to them being paid. How was the cabinet, to carry on if the provinces. of which the three honorable Tuchans were the most powerful representatives, would not forward the customary con- tributions to the central anthority? Would they not disband a proportion of r supertuous troops and renit the money saved to Peking? To this auda- crons suggestion the dauntless three re pfted that it would require $20,000,000 to settle the arrears of pay due to the troops to be disbanded. Could the Pre- tuber raise a loan for that amount? Wang, of Hopeh, added that there was *8,000,000 due to him personally for Dr. Robert C.. Parry who was in charge money, advanced to the troops in the of the China Inland Mission Hospital at district. If the Government could not Lungchow (Kanan) on receiving from the pay the whole suun he would be willing Magistrate of Tsing-ning-chow an appeal to take half the amount on account, just for medical assistance made a forced to show his goodwill and prove his sin journey over the seven stages Langchow Premier replied, with a sigh, that the
curity in the cause of economy. and Tsing-ning-chow, and found 655 per entire country did not possess unatta- sons had been killed, 1,130 had beeched assets sufficient to cover such a loan. wounded, and that 3,330 were being fed seeing there was no help for a poverty from the official granaries, while houses stricken administration in the three coutaining in all 13,500 rooms had been Tuchung-for nothing suits the mili destroyed.
tarists better than an impotent central Dr. Parry writes:" From personal administration-the Premier telegraphed observation and gathered information may to the Governors of the fifteen Provinces impression (which is open to correction) not represented at, the Tientsin conferen is that the centre of this earthquake co and asked them to disband their covers an area of about 100 miles in troops and send the money retrieved by diameter. including wei-ming-hsier this economy to Peking. That he hoped (west), Tung-wei-hsien and Maying to achieve anything by this futility it (south). Tsing-ning haien and Kuyuan impossible to believe: it may have been (east), and Haiyuan-hsien (north), with a despairing ery; it may have been a the mid point about Tsing-kiang-hi and face saving expedient, but at any rate district, where the seismic phenomenat was useless.
A HEAVY DEATH-ROLL.
་ དི Very little has been heard of the serious earthquake in North-west China that took place last December, though it is now estimated by Professor Omori, the great seismologist, that more than 100,000 people lost their lives. The Secretary of the China Inland Mission recently gave some particulars of this terrible up heaval
This
were prodigious. About here the hills And so the conference closed and the literally flowed down, converting the real problems confronting statesmen in valley, into hills over a distance of 3 to Chine were not even mentioned. The 5 li (1′ 1-5 to 2 miles) at a stretch. Ham famine which has brought millions face lets, with their occupants, were complete to face with death by starvation was not ly submerged. The surface is studded hinted at. The reform of the coinage. with huge boulders of earth, amongst the necessity for stamping out brigand- which casts have to pick their way-with age and making the trade routes, safa grent dificulty, even though preceded by and the thousand and one abuses hat men with picks and spades.
call for redress were all relegated to for getfulness. The Tientsin conference was cord not to be easily broken. concerned with the spinnig of a threefold strongest cord will not bind for ever But the four hundred million people,
My experience is limited to this one earthquake, but I hope I shall never see such destruction again. It is impossible to estimate accurately the total loss of life, but it must range somewhere in the tens of thousands.
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WHAT IS EYESTRAIN? The eye has certain tiny muscles. When objects we look at do not come
It is reported, apparently on good up to a sharp focus in the eye, these authority, that the Army and Navy authorities are. seriously considering muscles exert themselves unduly and effective retrenchment the next enable us to see clearly in spite of the budget, and the announced that a defect. These muscles tire and relax Army Re-adjustment Commission bas been appointed.
causing the objects looked at to become. Moreover, the usually well-informed blurred and indistinct.. Upon closing the Chuyas Shegyo Shimbun reports that the eyes for a few seconds the muscles, be Finance Minister, with the Cabinet's
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