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NEW ZONE SYSTEM IN CHINA.
INTERESTING STORY OF A THREE MILITART SCHEME TO ABOLISH
MONTHS' VOTAGE.
A CASE OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE."
The s. Paul Regendan "on which mutiny was reported to have broken out in the China Sea reached Hougkong late on Thursday night. She had crawled up the China Sea at an average of three or four knots an hour..
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GOVERNORS.
Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungklang will be the Segond Military District under the former Supertuchun with twelve brigades sumbering 49,000 men.
Third District under the Supertuchen of -Kiang, Anhui and Kiangsi will be the those provinces with three brigades of 28,000 men under him
CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS." The Chung Mel News Agency learns is high military circles that considerable progress has been made on the scheme for abolishing Military Governors by mopting a zoning system covering all of China. It is proposed that the country. will be divided into ten great Military The vessel was reported as passing Gap Districts and three Special Military Rock on Thursday afternoon about 2 p.m. Arens, the latter covering funer and but short as the distance was, the vessel Outer Mongolia, Hain Kinng or the New crawled along so slowly that she ilid not Dominion, Chinghai and Ili, and Tibet. enter the barbour until after 19 p.m.
Chilli, Honan, Shantung and Shansi She was allowed to come into haphour at will comprise the First District under the that hour and was ordered by the har-direction of the present Supertuehan with bour authorities to proceed the national defence aray of thirty-one quarantine anchorage off. Stonecutters ordinary trigades and four brigades of Shortly after her arrival a party of police, the former Imperial Bodyguards, making under the charge of Mr. P. P. J. Wode- Fin all 133,000 troops. house and Inspector Augus and arcom- panied by the Dutch Consul (Mr. L. J. P. de Decker) who is af present acting as German Consul-General in Hoogkong had a representative of the agents for the steamer in Hongkong, went out to the vessel and an investigation into the trouble was held. Ta this direction great tact had to be, used by all purties con- cerned. In the first place, as the trouble on the vessel did not take place within the waters of the Colony, but on the high seas, and as the vessel is not flying the British Hag, the Hongkong police had no power to arrest or even detain any person on board. The difficulty was heightened by three or four other facts: ) the ship is Dutch, the crew is German and the ing she dies is that of the Panama Government. It was doubtfal as to which Consulate in Hongkong the
Yunnan and Kweichow will be the vessel came under. Strictly speaking, as Eighth District likewise under the senior she was flying the Panama flag, jurisdic-military rean, having six brigades of tion lay with the Panama Government. but the Dutch Consul, who, as stated before, is the acting German Consul and therefore has a double interest in the situation (the crew being German and the vessel being. Dutch owned) laboured Inte on Thursday night trying to bring about a peaceful settlement of the differ- enees on Lourd. It is satisfactory to add that his efforts were attended with some
success.
The vessel is not a sual one, neither
District, will be headed by a mas selected Kwangtung and Kwangsi, the Fourth from the highest military standing of those two provinces, and under bim be will have six brigades or 24,000 men of the National Army-;.”
Hupeh and Hunan will couprise the Fifth District under the present Super- tuchin who will command nine brigades!
of 38,000 men.
Chekiang nud Fukien will be the Sixth District under the man selected from the Senior militarists who will command six brigades of 24,000 troops.
Shenai and Kanse will make up the Seventh District under the senior mill- tary man of the two provinces, and he will command six brigades of 24.000.
91,000, men.
Szechuan itself will comprise the Ninth District with its leader selected from the many military officers there, and will be defended with six brigades of 24,000 soldiers.
Jehol, Chabar and Sulyan is to be the Tenth District under the present Super- tuchun with six brigades numbering 24,000,
Because of the different custoius And they cannot be classed under these ten practices existing in the frontier districts,
is she what one would describe as and it is proposed to establish them as undern and thoroughly up-to-date steam-Special Military Units. Therefore, Inner and Outer Mongolia becomes the First Special Area defended by four brigades of 16,000 traps, while the Second Special Area includes Hsinking and land is awarded four brigades of 10,000 men. It is reported that these two Special Areas will be commanded by General Feng Ya-hsiang temporarily.
The Third Special. Military Area" will he Tibet, whose head will be selected from among the military experts ac- quainted with the people and conditions He will cominand one existing there. brigade of, 4,000 troops.
All of the soldiers mentioned above will be part of the Chinese National Army, and not belong to regional spin-
mandera
CERTAINLY CURIOSO..
She is between six and seven thou sand tons burthen and carries a general cargo of 6,000 tora, of which 300 tons is for Hongkong. The crew is made up of 16 Germans, including officers. A goodly number of them are, comparatively speak ing, youngsters, their ages ranging from "is years to: 27 years. She carries one passenger who, by the way, was formerly skipper of the vessel, and who has only recently transferred his command to the present ekipper, Captain Fabriann.
Shortly after the vessel left Antwerp For the Far East with cargo for Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai and Japan, there was dissatisfaction amongst the men con- cerning their pay. As one oan put it, his daily pay in German marks was not sufficient to buy him his daily bottle of heer. At Port Said the authorities inter- vened and it was eventually arranged that the crew should be paid in Ameri- can dollars. After many days delay at Port Said, the ship proceeded to Colon- ho. Further troulle broke out on the way among a section of the crew, over the fool. Daily complaints were made, principally by the stokers and the trim mers, that they could not do the work required of them unless they got hotter food. Gradually a number of the men, whilst not exactly refusing to work, fell
Because the Brass Gong ara hest sick. The Captain alleged that they were Curioso good Quality and used. But the malingering. Short-handed in the stoke Brass-Gong are three thousand years hold meant that a proper pressure of ago. At the sush Bornd the Brast--Gong steam could not be kept up, and then the raund From depth side Catched Vessel's speed gradually dropped to a few out it. We have Keeping for myself of the knots an hour, some days a little faster Brass-Gong are Brightly. But It is the than others, but on the average the speed Brass-long then to try First as the Best was not half what the vessel should have Curioso and Three thansand for made it, been doing. She arrived in Colombo when the hard way may he to Wans but many days late and from a cable, which They are soldiers if Stand 40, Lis heard was despatched to the Hongkong police, them must for Ways. It name is (Han some twenty days ago, it was apparent Ko Chi Emperor) naked are "too Far the Captain of the vessel had made fur-years Best Curioso of very nince the ther complaints. to the authorities there Piele.
HOW A CHINESE FIRM "ROOMS BRASS GONGS.
A Chinese bop Russian Municipal of the door next," at Tientsin, isanes the following stirring appeal:
We have Curiosa Now, the Brass Goog are at the Country of that Province to Bought it for (Ho non).
concerning the crew. As a result of in- If will you try the Brass-Gong and vestigations made in that. warning the police against the cable See, by My oblige to. Selling yours for
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arrival of the vessel was sent to Hongkong.
On the voyage from Colombo to Hong- kong there was a recrudescence of the trouble, principally ninongst the stokers. When the police," accompanied by the Many of them went sick, and the Captain Dutch Consul and the Hongkong agent has alleged that many of them lay in for the vessel went on board they found
a section of the men in a very discon bed with simple complaints such as head- nches, and left the ship to take care of tented frame of mind. In the investiga herself. For one whole day, it is stated, tion of the circumstances the Laptain sufficient men could not be raked together alleged that the food placed before the to man the ship. As a consequence sho mca was quite good, and in support of drifted for gr hours. On another day as his statement brought a number of the many as eight out of the fifteen stokers dcck handa forward who said they were and trimmers were in bed with various quito, satisfied, whilst one went so far complaints. There was no doctor on as to, state that he had increased his board so it could not he definitely stated weight by 12 to 15 lbs. As a matter of that the crew were malingering. They fact all the deck hands appear to be did not actually refuse to work but well satisfied with conditions The Cap: rather went sick on every possible occa tain also produced the crew's menu card sion cansing much inconvenience. The and also showed the actual victuals used stokers held out, for more food and beton board. The stokers and trimmers ter conditions, and the Captain promised allege that they have been fed on bread that their conditions would be investi- and sugar ever since they left Gerranny gated on the ship's arrival in Hongkong, which, was served up to them in differ
Insted 21 days, which is about twies at all. The Woman to be whion on board, The voyage Iron Colombo to Hongkongent ways. They had no variation of diet long as it should have lasted and the Alter a two hours. strange thing about it is that during this lasting into the small hours of the 'morn- section of the journey 300 tons of coal ing, it was decided that those of the crew were used on board-which is about the who objccted to the treatment on hoard average amount for the voyage--and this should be taken on to Shanghai as pas despite the fact that the could only steam sengers where they would he paid off, at three or four knots an hour for several Arrangements were also made for their daysYT
places to be taken by Chinese stokers and trimmers -
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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