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DISORDER IN CHINA. is not taken by the Foreign Office træk, REACTIONS ON BRITISH TRADE in China, will become impossible,"
constructional work in which three firms
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EFFECT ON TREATY FORTS.
The
MONGOLIA THE HAPPY. HUNTING IN CARS. WANING POWER OF SOVIET.
be
that whole,
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TROUBLE AT CANTON. CARGO COOLIES ÖN STRIKE.
We fear that the cargo coulies at
Mr. Sun Fo, the Mayor,' demanded $100,000 from the edmmission brokers, They refused, to pay and called out the args coolies on strike so that all stepm.
and are returning to Hongkong with "rs have been unable to discharge cargoes
theni.
The British Consul General (Sir Jaunes. Janis K.C.M.G.) and others are
The following article, which reently are interested in various parts of the! appeared in The Timer Vaude Supide country is being held up and industrial (av "THE " PEKING CORRESPONDENT] Canton strucks yesterday. It appears that ment is written by a well-known Shanghai | development checked. In this guancetion
KAGAN. resident who recently left for England: it may be painted cut that the import
In this the hot weather, when the capital The reactions on British trade with of machinery into Chica in 1921 Wast China of the disorder that is prevalent worth in round figures £80,530, of of Chin is a vast area of high walls in the most important ecmmerein areas which business Great Britain did over radiating the fire beat of summer, aud of the Republic are becoming increasingly 3 per cent. Had conditions been more the air is impregnated with dust whirled harmful, a good dent more harmful than wetted the amount of busines dene would hither and thither by the burning wind. is generally realizely
have been much larger. for the demand!
it in ables thing to escape to, de high Public appreciation of the situation in China for British textile machinery
lying plains of Mongolia, now clothed in hus, it is true, prently been increased by and electrical gonds is growing.
green and tanged by galing bro. the spectacular hold-up of the Nanking
Nyt jong sace 12 was an affair of weeks mediating, but at present without defuito Peking train and by the capture by
Reen within the Treaty Ports where the brigands of a mumber of well-known
It is stated that the $100,000 demand. great majority of foreign business men to make an expedition into the job result. people I And also in such parts of Eng: five and are safe the unsettled state of Desert, bat steam and peird! have worked was due to the fact that the authorities
and as I have visited since my arrival the country has its effets. There is a wonders, and in these gags one may pene, from Shanghai a fairly widespread reali.
well-known phrase in Shanghai describing mation that China is in a bad way. But
the destination of Chinese who have failed rate well in the metent tornitary of tsevered by seizure of account Invoks coraiving at under payments' of Customs" 18 many other parts of the world, more or do not wish to take up their contracts, Kublai Khan and be back in the ety that, that the consmission brokers had been.
revenue by trailers. fireetly important to British traite, are and have in consequerer abscbndled. They he planned so nobly within the space of j
in a bad way that the situation in Chitare si to lave gone beyond Ningpo, to sixty hours-quite log bagh to is les clearly appreciated than it "mighingpo-more-far, Ningpo being the alakat when the daily talk and certainly should be.
name of a small Treaty part close taj sah meeting of the troops is in-dent und
sheep and goats. Rarely in Souther To our extent this is due to the fact Shanghai." The refuge of "Yingpo-more a cap d'hat inevitable.
Kulgan, which may be renched by rail, Mongolia does the Mongol break the soil, that the figures of our trade with China fatis much more often used today
He les mainly on the milk am cheeser lies some 200915, up, at the month at are not very readily available and that than formly, partly because there ha recky vailey that aides through the range from his herbs and on the Tat sheep that
he kills up the sight of class of dealer i sch figures as are available illustrate Lesme into existence.
girlling fooths, and glyos næes 10 very imperfreely what is happening. If wline word is certainly not as good, as his thateau port wheel tratty wari-guti horizon. The hotes are their most previous the public that has its eye on Chinese ban-itself a sign of the times-party vulsing schemes have originated. This way posessions, for by their means they gratify. railway bonds has hail occasion, as the because the arm of the law in China came the successive horse of Tartars wh their nondie instinets, besides which there The Peking Corespondent of The Timea show-stretches nothing like as far as it na hiss from time to time overridden the Eis a good market for them in China. vil to feel holder of to stretch. Once a man has gone to
hill over-gar is and hut built to mováblá of China. High on masonry other Chirete bonds, secured on the, Salt, Vingiomorr tar he is for all prac lucki
Initice work anul covered by felt mats that and Custous revenues, have no apparent tiical purposes beyond the reach of law, watch over that testify to the vigilance can be rolled off and on. A hole in the It is hortably ground, a top lets out the smoke of the fires of dried reason fer apprehension. Both securities. The foreign importer is chliged to cut his of former day as far as figure show, are doing well. loss though each time he does so, of wildernes of rocks fallen from above: of cung used for cooking, and according to air or snugly fastened down to keep out The trade statistician, too, can find in course, he broadens and makes easier the boulders and stones worn smooth in their the weather the mats are eased to let in
the cold. Our host for the night was the Customs annunt and quarterly returns road of escape fur other dishonest dealers passage down rushing torrents; of ravines a great deal of reassurance to set against These various cireu ustaners combined and riverbeds a regular no-man's land of
nature's there dividing the fuselas farm worthy Lama whose Scriptures were uently ades of unrest, whilst questions asked in are a contributing cause of labour ancestuds below from the sweeping prairie
had an a'shelf, and whose prazn is the breuling of horses. On mir Parliament are few and far between and which, during the past two or three years,
region above.
Trial word 15219 ut forth, and while wi the answers to them generally of a cen has been increasingly productive of Here also runs the great northern trade, forting and quieting character. I do not strikes. The Hongkong strike was, big route ading to Urga and tapping the drank ten and the native milk, ate littl
cakes at imported from China and slabs of menn te suggest that there is any kind of rough to attract attention here, but whole of Central Hongola Tes home-rande cheese, the herdsmen went far conspiracy of silence in regard to Chinese there have been a large number of less thousands of ennuils are ever in the way home affairs. I mean merely that the informa. important strikes in Hankow, Joy, and gingerly treading the stones of the valley, and wide on their posies, roun tion generally available, pecinly the Shanghai of which little er 6othing has or slowly and unifustably feing it arosenttered troops busy commercial information, is incomplete been heard. The Hongkong strike was in the plateau, baring hides and wool and five hundred peries were corralled, stal. were goldings that the foreigner and does not show how bad things really part political intrigue: in the less im- fur to Chint anel taking back ten and lions and mares and foals, but the larges portant strikes referred to it is difficulti kerosene, silk and "pires good. It is a majorY WHEN Beh n business of rucius: HELD TO RANSOM,
Those of the party who had come to buy. to say definitely whether political intrigue labourious business of eight hundred miles in China make A complete picture of the situation can played a part; but agitation of the Boletween Kalgax and Urga, and the car-
the points in shaggy, poor conditional only be obtained by following out the in-shevist type unquestionably did so. The ring of merchandise takes thirty days.were so hard at work striving to catch dividual ways, in which the present dis- influence of professional agitators is grow. Travellers riding can do it in twenty day, beast-the best of them had recently erter in Chinn affects merchants on the ing and the conditions described above but hardly in 1s without relays of horsearched 600 miles over drought-afflicte
· Lut
which are difficult and expensive "tu arrange
spot and then estimating their cumula-1 give them every chance of multiplying tive effect on Britain's position in the their activities. China market.
u begin on the Yangtze River, the region at once the most important commereinily and best known, alike to these who have and those who have not first-hand knowledge of the country. On the upper part of the river the great highway to Szechean's market where so many of Shanghai's imperts go, trade is being constantly, unscrupulously. and helplessly penalized by illegal tax tion. It takes two foras“ pretretipn ar "escort Fees am! w'untary contri butions"
With the financini embarrassments of the Peking Government resulting, as they very largely is from the failure of the the motor-eur. previnees to remit the revenues due from them, there is not space in this article to deal. But one consequence to the mer chant is this, that he does not get paid for the goods he has supplied to the Government. There are millions of pounds matstanding in this way.
DISREGARD FOR FOREIGN PRESTIGE As a result of all ther factors there The former are levied un junk loaded growing up an increasing disregard for whether that has foreign prestige, and that at a time when Young China is more than ever anxious already paid daty or not: the latter recover for the country what are term on Ingrign-owned vessels alse. Recently its sovereign rights, the consequere
with foreign
CATHO
voy of janks mitented to Tls. 0,090, or.
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1.500 fewer than
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112
guest on the...
rounding up the
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country and to imagine what they would look like when filled with good corn and ready to run for their lives. It is here worth saying that the Mongolian pay never eat anything but grass, and that this meagre dief he is trained to race anything up to thirty miles, and readily carries a rider fity miles every day for it week, Only when he comes down to Chin
as he ever taste hard feel,
Aro left..
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
ndvisers have one
now
by
The Red
to a
THE TRIUMPH OF THE MOTORLAR. But Er travellers in Mongolia everything has been revolutionized by the advent of This modern, vehicle has repeatedly done the journey from Kalgan to Urga in forty-eight hours, depite the almost totul absence of roads. Nowhere in the world probably has the efficiency of the motor-car been so tested as on the track
In the past dozen years the Mongils Inve leading up to the Khan Abar Pass, andÍ un the immense steppes beyond. An or dinary five-seater with the full complement know some strange political ups and of pages and two or three hundred downs, and the strangest of all is that pounds of baggage makes light of the uw, with ne great neighbour given step m.p.h., crunching over er hels, ta militarm and brigandage, they are diffenties, and rattle up the valley at to devouring Bolshevism, and the other
in and out of "deep ruts, and better off than at any time in recent h thing over bruiders, and one of which try. There is law, order and prosperity. obstneles would deter drivers of the best ant for the morant us threat from "int- European Jakis of car at honie. But the
the Chinese Conerni, "Little escort fees eguëted from a single cut-teize that questions other than purely Amir cau car seems indestructible, at *. It will be remembered that in 1919 the then rite of exchange between Shang commercial ones in which business men of the forty or so now regularly on the copied Urgs and played the conqueror
a are vitally interested have reached PUSA hii taels and sterling. to £950. In spite dead'ork. The status of the ex-enemy veral that have made the round! with conspicuous brutality ami stupidity,
The following
cam the Russian of their name the fees aford no protect sous if one of them; this, and still live to demon rate their General Baron Ungern with a mixed fores tian. whether. The junks, whether the extension of the foreign settlement at mchacal cleared
who nominated the Chinese régime. Ca of great reeks and cut imeart LY
not infrequnitly, the scort Shanghai is another: the future of Weis ficacy. This road up the valley of which the greater part were Mong demands a further fee with which to taiver to judge from eat cables-lins out of the slopes where the tread of the ger stashed the Chines army, and of ifteen thousand only three thousand ever buy the brigands off. I have personal knowledge of a ense in which a body or now, to be added to these. We badly: a) trek was too narrow, and every car true hum to tell the tale. Unger, need a trademark law in Chim, but what using it must pay $ (about three guiens) however, was tus ther for the beauryns of the Menge, and when attacking the brigands cleared $4.000 in this way and hone is there of getting our when the each time for the privileg then robbed the junks to the tune of Tishthority of the man why would pramul tribution to the expense. A few low bril Far Erstern Republic in this inc rest 47
hage tean made on F:”
the plateau, and
the Whites, was totally defeated by u 20,000, or over $3.000.
severni places double-line of stone Hag
Red army.
Thereafter a Red detachment Wanhsien, a few miles below Chung-gate the law is confined to Peking?
The cumulative effect of fil; the condi- have been laid over marshy ground of two thousand marched to Urn and set king, on the left bank of the river, is the contre of "voluntary contributions. A ticus on trade scarcely needs emphasis. .herwise cars follow the horse and
Soviet nominees from Irkutsk, and supperf« vel is asessed at so much and if she What does need emphasis is the fact that, tracks, narrow paths worn smooth through apa Red Mongol Covernment advised by refuses to pay the military authorities between the three chief competitors the ages by countless feet, and it is a
to do 40 m.p.h. one by Retropa
Mongolia,
it would have seemed, hist forbid any boat to put out to her from in the China market, the circumstance hair-lifting crying this way"nid that fallen out of the frying-pan into the fir the shore, thus rendering it impossible for described above are most prejudicial to such a mead, the veggel to gut fuel. As few vessels Great Britain. In the first place, Britain to keep the wheels on the paths, and that the fact is otherwise. The Red troops. tarry, suficient fuel teges from Tehang has sunk more capital in Chia, his path, verge or ran into one another, have dwindled away and only twa. hundred to Chungking, there is erually no alter Japan or America. In the second, if dis-
Fracks and take their chance of who really have helped the Mongols to r
drivers leave the road of little que been superseded by Russian Socialists Paralli native but to pay the money demanded. crder affrets British and American trade Representations, of course, are inade to "unly, our market in Chinn is more im the streiches of gray plain, It is odi-lish a decent government
with sportsmen to run down wolves the Legation authorities in Peking and pertant to us than America's is to her; by them to the Chinese Foreign Office, while on the other hand, disturbed con and antelope in thin way, and to shoot angol Cation, representative of all
National oyer. the Waichizopu, but illegal taxation, goes ditions in China b'ock the cutlet much them with automatic pistols when
satisfactorily and ga on just the same, and what is taking place more in our en than
is taking place in Japan's proximity to the country enabled the fun than to the ground erasionally
Hatukhtu or Living
who d the Yangtze various farms in many other parts of her to take much shorter views and to strike a bad place, and empty their pabeen recognized as Chinn. Treaties and agreements which adap: her activities to requirements and euge into space. But all this is part of
A kcal bus stipn'ate exactly how much foreign goods pportunities much more ready than the day's work for the cars on the Urgance 1019] has censed to be anything should pay in duty are being disregarded; can; while her control of Manchuria trail, and if one smetimes comes to gritstablished as War Minister, has turned
ughly to gives her a region on which she can rely there are many which stand
It is put to practical man with adminis with impunity.
trative far more than we can on -Ray part of shocks of pulverizing intensity.
qualities.
One of the four great astonhing to see how some of the cars are trati Chira proper. The labour difficulty reloaded, One mrt cu the read carried two Khans of Mongolia is a working member Another consequenture of the prevailing ferred to above affects British employers en nearly 19t
ether of the Cabinet, and if the Priners fun and disorder is the danger attending travel more than it affects Japanese or Ameri-penta lashed all over in the whole notables do not like the new order-for they are now taxed according to their in the interior and the insecurity of procan, for the simple reason that there are looking like some antediluvian monster wealth they are accepting the situation.
work was loaded perty. There are not many lines in which mere of them, while it is British business Another doing pasenger
who are most interested in the with more than five hundredweight there is a great deal of brigandage for In Inner Mongolia, still subject to China, foreigner travel but three of them are men important, cigarettes, kerosine oil, and questions, which have reached a dead baggage and fourteen adult Chinese. The which the Chinese troops are believed to
baggage filled the inside of the car, so to sugar, the values of the net import of lock.
In Outer Mongolia, there is Let is also be further borne in mind that speak, up to the gunwales, and twelve be resp security, plenty of trade, fair which in 1921 (the only figures available
pla
legs taxation
and a rigu oppre-des, when I ft Shanghaij were in round throughout the war renru Britain lost of the past, or with their figures £4.578,762, · £11,378,497, and ground heavily in the Chinn market. Her
ear flow of revenue into the treasury. £13,954,714, respectively.
competitors had thing very much their
i silver dollars and Russian currency seriously as it went,, was tinied!
The Mongols are
are spending money to reach Urga on the fifth day, according sold. connection with the sale of these goods increased? Amerien inbreused still more.
from Chiun run Creasingly great finks. I crossed We did ont best to hold our ground. but to previous experiences, and it is only on their army with the ebject of being
and hitter. the Tice with one of them a few woke uavoidably our trade diminished. Since fair to say of it, and of most of the others to resist auther incursion
of the ags and he made no secret of the feelings the war. we have recovered much that we engaged in the Mongolian trafic, that the gainst which feeling is
tion is the acquiescence of Meses in the he had experienced in the discharge of lost, but in the conditions at present nake is Dodge, of Detroit, a
gradual renrtion of his duties as an inspector of sub-stations. existing the odds, as I have shown, are
the on- Mongolia is no desert, but a land of dence. Moscow has indonen The substations themselves are exposed to against us. the constant danger of being looted. "Among those odds I personaliz—though rolling downs and low bills, windswept
I apparently does not interfere have before me as I write an incomplete not everybody by any means would agree wasta in winter, in summer and wept galian Government. accents a Mongeline list of tavus in the interior food during with the-count sentiment, not the senti- of green speckled thick with flowers. Trees in Mongolia, though is addition t
They total sixty-two, and are in ment of the business classes who know, are conspicuous by their absence. The Soviet representative at Urga there is a various parts of Honasi, Anhui, Chihli, understand, and trust the British, but shallow valleys in the south contain sait secret service office which examines pass that produces fair crops, and the Chinese, ports, Not long ago this office was de- Kinngsi, Manchuria, and Kyangtang. In the sentiment of the class from which herd, us in other frontier regions. have prived of the right of addition to these a very large number China draws her politieluns, who inevit were looted in Kwangi. Sub-stations of ably, by reason of the mutiplicity of settled
northward. Their mud villages Customs. Moscow may be suppised ba pushing the Mongal encamp desirous of pineating China by abstention referred to suffered with them, the loss much as they do in Japan, the chief ments further back into the plateau, and in Mongolia, but, on the other hand, il falling on the organizations, or their obstacle to the recovery of what they are for filte miles or go beyond the Khan Abar Soviet Government is eupolving arms and
pleased to call their sovereign rights. The Pas
attenuated signs of military material to the
for Mongols Chine agents, or both.
The effects of disorder are also felt very influence of politicians on trade it. It is complexities of Chinese civilization. But fonce against China. It would serm, How- over, that the Mongols who now pommu neately by firms interested in the import true, only indirect, but it is, as shown by the habitations of the Chines are 100m of machinery, was illustrated earlier anti-Japanese boycotts, an influence of behind, and they are followed by the urls well-equipped fore, have nothing to
In of the Mongols, dotted in half dozens
fear from
China distracted by its own this month by the dispatch from Shang- which account has to be taken. hai of a cabin sent jointly by the leading taking it into account the British Lege every few miles of innudsen The wealth troubles. If there is to be further aggres British engineering firms, in which they tion in Peking bas in the immediate of the Mongols consists of horses, cattle, slan against Mongolia it must come from
(Continued at fout of next column the worth, expressed to view that "if drastic action future a vary, hard row to bor,
on
DANGERS OF TRAVEL,
functions
in Japan'. baled. Drivers paying more attention toral, but so Emperor
and
over.
of
a spiritual ruler.
be
t crossliggel on this complete
Foreigners travelling in the interior in own way, Japan's trade with the country pl This car. swaying and the cutt
1929,
I
HORSE-ARETİNG TENT-DWELLERS.
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lines.
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Shaggage
the forrigu organizations telling the goods our interests in China, se in us, quite as "tengely and their colonies are ever after it had been almod wed by the
are
there
are
to