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No. 21,250
號拾五百弍千登萬式第
日九月七年寅丙
HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 1926 TAL
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. CHINESE SPECULATION. TRAVELLING IN HUNAN.
Yazmati...
Bhatin
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
ELGETT SUMBATS
'HAVOİTOJI Břenj
UMDATA & PUBLIC - ONLY
HOLIDAYS
4336.29 7.10. 3.987.19
2.49 458 5.51 7.81 2.56 5,09 8.04 7,44 3.00 3.15 8.08 2.48 3.11 5.24 8.19 2,58 3.15 5.23 3.23 3,03 3.71 5.34 16.098,08
A
AX Noor
Kowloon...
...Dap./ 8,40
9.15 10.50 11,40 1900
..Dop 6.50
9.34 10,39
12.00
Dap. 7.02
0.38 10,51
12.41
Tripo Taipo Market
... Dep. 7.16
9.69 11.06
12.34
..Dept 7.91
9.5811.05
12,38
Taning.
Dep. 7.82
10.0% 11.18
12,48
Sheangahai
Shumphan
"...Dap. 7.88 ...A. 7.42
10.07 11.22.
1259
15,1911.92 1220 13.58
2.18
F.M.
Shamehan
..Dep
8.05.10.39 11.40
1.56
Shaangehai
...Dop
7.25
8.19 10.45 11,47
8,07
424
S 5.20
-2.x.
0,08 615
Fanling...
Tip
$16-10.49 11,51
3.11
524
6.15
Taipo Market
...Dup
7,42
8.28 10.58 12.09
3,91
4.38
5.94 6.09
Tsipo
... Dep.. 7.48
8.80 11.04 12.07
.8.25
4.42
5.38
Shatin
中
Dep. 7.59
8,43 11.17 12.21
3.58 4.56
3,51
8.55 11.29 12.33
8.50 5,06
6,03
Arr. 8,20
9.03: 11,87 12.41
9,58 9.57
616 611
8.33 6,46 6,59 7,06
Yramati... ...Dep. 9.12
Kowloon...
STATIONE
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
P.M. F.M.
WEEK DAYS,
AX A.X Fanling ...Dop, 7,45 11.30 2.20 8.25 Shataukok...Art. 8.40 12.25 8.15 7.20
SUNDAYS AND PURMO HOLIDAYS,
1.Ma FX
STATIONS
F.M. P.
Fanling Dep. 7.46 11.20 3.20 6.25 Shatankok... Art, 8.40 12.25 4.35 7.20
567
AM7
WEEK DAYS, STATIONA Shatankok.Dep. 8.50 10.15 1.05 5.00 Fanling ...AT. 7.25 11.10 200 5.55 BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
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Missionaries have just arrived from Yungchow, Hunan and are able to give us first hand information as to the state of the countryside in a district from which there has been practically no news for over a month, writes the A-6. Daily News correspondent at Wuchang on August Athr
The missionaries in question were told that it would be highly dangerous to at- tempt the journey to Changsha " on account of the large number of soldiers in the area through which they would have to pass. On visiting the local magistrate, however, they were informed and correctly informed that they need have no apprehension on this score, but that the bandits were now very active. Willing to run the risk of the latter, they proceeded to make preparations for leaving, hut found that, although there were many boats tied up at paguhow,
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·號六拾月八年五十國民華中
TRAIN HOLD-UP.
CONDUCTOR KILLED AND ANOTHER WOUNDED.
200 PASSENGERS TAKEN FOR RANSOM
BANDITS DARING OUTRAGE.
[FROM OUR CHINSSE CORRESPONDENT.] --
Another train-robbery on the Canton
Samshui Railway occurred on the morning
of August 13th, between the stations of Sintong and Sheungpak. The bandits
conductor
and wounded I killed one
another and took 200 passengers into captivity for ransom.
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A dozen bandits, it is said, boarded the GALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
train as passengers at Canton. When passing Siutong, they threatened the engine driver with revolvers and ordered corporated roder the Companies Ordinances of Brugtongla him to stop. Then they signalled to their comrades who had been in hiding near 15, Quaxx's BoAD CENTRAL TEL CENTRAL 75
this spot.
A launch was ready near-by and loot. and captives were simply transferred from the train to the launch.
Before the engine driver stopped the train, he succeeded in sounding the signal of distress by five blasts of the whistle.
good their escape before the arrival of
some 30 members of the people's volun teers.
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AN INTERESTING THEORY. ·
“Mr. Rodney Gilbert, writing from Peking to the NC. Daily News on August 7th, advances the interesting theory that Chinese are speculating in railways be cause they are convinced that conditions will force foreign intervention and that their railway shares will go up. He says: The trend of Chinese investments often indicates more clearly and directly what the Chinese think of the state of their country than the trend of their conver- sation. When the Chinese banks gamble in domestic bonds, for instance, instead of backing industries and financing sound commercial transactions, it means that they are loaded up with money which their depositors have nervously withdrawn from legitimate business and that they are desperately trying to turn it over so that they can pay interest on it. When domestic bonds go up to the' very top of the market and stay there, with no sellers, the banks are not holding one of these was free to sail. It was The bandits, however, were able to make Bewexone Hörer; them, but the general public is buying, not until they had gone some 10 li down them hungrily because there are virtually the river bank that they were able to no safe investments in the country into and a houseboat able to take them. which they can put the money that they have withdrawn from the chaotic interior. At this writing the antics of the
All the way down the river from Yung- Chinese investing public tell us very clearly that they want and fully expect chow to Benchow the same conditions soundly. It appears that he was carry.' foreign intervention in China's domestic held At every riverside town there were in some women passengers and had not affairs Statesmen in London and large numbers of boats tied up, but the 20gistered his boat. He was forced to Washington may protest as much as they amount of traffic on the river, apart return, bag and baggage, whence he had like that they would not dream of inter- that engaged, in transporting
HENCHOWFILLED WITH fering with China's muddled affairs and troops and military equipment of ali that she must work out her own salva. kinds, was negligible. In fact, they re-
SOLDIERS. tion, but the Chinese cannot believe it.port that during the whole of this stage They are absolutely sure that when con ditions get bad enough, the foreigner will intervene to safeguard his investments The travellers were unable to obtain and, bad as conditions are, they know any satisfactory explanation why such a that they are getting rapidly worse. peculiar state of thinks should exist but They feel sure that when intervention believe that all basts have recently been comes war will cease, the military will be registered and that they may not move ousted from their high administrative without official sauction. Moreover, it posts and their control of the railways, would appear us if these boats are being and trade throughout the country will held in readiness in case of emergency. boom. They have much more faith in Colour is lent to this conclusion by an our ability to work these miracles over-incident which was witnessed one night night than most of "our folk have. In at a little riverside hamlet, Leichiashib, their own ability to work out their coun-at which they moored in company with try's salvation they have no faith at all, some half-a-dozen other small boats. but they do believe that their officials are During the night, two men disembarked going to complete the country's-ruin in from a down-stream launch and proceed the very near future. We know all this ed to inspect the moored boats, inter-they will not impose heavy levies-on-the much more surely than if the entire rogating the occupants as to their busi-country folk What they have done is Chinese press voiced these sentimenteness, whence they had come and their simply to print off hundreds of thousands because the Chinese investors have com- destination. On their learning that for- of dollar notes which they force the menced hungrily buying up railway eigters occupied one boat, the travellers citizens to accept. as currency, thus tem- bonds.
ere not troubled further, but a little porarily inßating the currency and further along the line there was suddenly finally, when they move on, repudiating
great deal of shouting and a lao-pan the issue. was ejected from his boat and beaten. -=-=-=- (Continued-onfinext. column.) . : :
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of the journey they did not see one other houseboat of respectable dimensions.
COTDE
Henchow is Alled chock-a-block with soldiers. There seem to be more soldierR than civilians on the streets, many of them being merely lads of 14 or 15 years of age. General Li Chang Jean, Com- mander of the 7th Army has his head. quarters here. Between Henchow and Changsha conditions seemed more or less normal and no difficulty was experienced. in obtaining a passage from Changahu to Hankow. The steamer, of course, was heavily plated as protection against pos sible rifle fire.
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amounts
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RAILWAYS BAD YET BOUGHT.
. In some districts the old-time-honoured If there is to be no intervention in
method has been resorted to but, even China's affairs within reasonably short
here they have made a new departure. time, it would be hard to pick a worse
Instead of approaching two or three of investment than China's terribly abused
the leading men of the town and making railways Half the time they are devoted to purely military purposes and the engineer Auctuations which will yield them responsible for the collection of the required sum, as has been the custom of rolling stock is ruthlessly abused by them big profit, at the puolic's expense.
all armies heretofore, they have gone irresponsible soldiery. When they do serve commercial purposes in part, the ALL BUSINESS NOW A LOTTERY. direct to the smaller men from whom gross receipts are seized by the military, In the Treaty Ports, under the pro- they demand proportionately smaller the managers have great difficulty in testing shadow of the wicked im-
Throughout the whole journey, the mis- keeping back enough for salaries, almost perialist," there is still some sound nothing goes into upkeep and the pay business for Chinese banks to do. In the sionaries, passed or were passed by a ment of interest coupons on foreign loans interior where the Tupan caters to his constant stream of Southern troops press- is looked upon by the Tuchunate as sheer own whims and the playful soldier disig northward, folly. Purveyors of material supplies ports himself, every legitimate trading have been swindled until the railways venture is a gamble and if the Chinese ther have to pay cash or do without the were not such courageous gamblers there supplies so many of the lines perforce would not be any trade. No farmer in do without the bare essentials. Natural any northern province knows, who is go- ly the bands are very low on the marketing to reap the crop he plants, and no and since everyone knows that the rail reaper knows whether he is going to be ways are going to get in very much able to thresh and winnow his grain be- They said that above Hsiangtan there worse condition while the military fore a few armed bullies in grey uniforms continue to control them there is not the appear, riding on a commandeered cart, slightest hope that the bonds will increase to demand the whole fruit of a season's in intrinsic worth.
work
USEFUL PASSFORTS.
It should be added that these___mis sionaries state that they personally had the easiest journey they have yet experi enced and that their passports stood thein in good stead.
has been very little damage from the foods, but that along the stretch of the Esiang River from Hsiangtan to Chang sha, a distance of about 90, the damage has been very severe radeed.
Yet it is these bonds which the Chinese
To-day Farmer Wang goes forth and
Postal and telegraphic services through- are now buying and they will tell you surveys five mow of wheat just heading confidentially why everyone is after them beautifully and thinks that this year he out the whole area are very badly dis and why they will probably go up on the can pay back the money that he borrowed organized and thoroughly unreliable market in phenomenal fashion. It is for grandfather's extravagant funeral. The people are being fed on such news simply because all Chinese are sure that Tomorrow he goes forth and finds & as the commanders see fit to give them conditions are going to be so bad in the battalion of cavalry camped where his but, in the opintor of those who have immediate future that the foreigner can wheat was and when he is indiscreet just arrived this news is rather less un- do nothing but intervene. Then, they enough to make his existence known he reliable than the news that we in Kupch say, the bonds will at once go up, to part is commandesred as a water carrier and are receiving. value and those who bought them when informed that if he cannot produce a few. Letters from a missionary, who has they were low, careless of interest and bushels of bran offhand he and his family recently returned to Liuyang state that he found the city filled with about 8,000 careless of their intrinsic worth, will will find themselves in difficulties. make huge profits on them. This idea The trader who sets out from Cheng. troops recently arrived from Ewang has to be very widely prevalent to inspire chow in Honan for Bianfu in Shensi with tung. Numbers of these were occupying conspicuous bond movements but it is a few mule leads of merchandise is as the mission baildings, the Girls Baszding already conspicuous enough for the native much of an adventurer as any of Queen School, Chapel and even the foreigners bankers to have noticed it. It is the kind Elizabeth's courtiers who sold their houses He, himself, was not allowed of thing that they are constantly looking estates and outfitted ships to find the to remain in his own house. On attempt for, since they can find no legitimate North-West passage or fight for the gold ing to enter, he was home too cordially investments, because each such movement of Orm and Ind. It is better business received, being abused as a ti kuo chu provides them with a new field of ea to manipulate bonds than to finance anch i tih ren" and shown the door. How deavour. If the iden takes a frm hold triflers with Destiny. It is better has ever the troops are moving on and he upon the investing public, the bankingness still to buy forward on intervention was hoping that he would be able to call cliquen van step in, buy up enough rail-if you really believe that it's possible. bis house his own once more, . Apparent way bonds to control the market and then Obviously the Chiness investor in railway ly the buildings and tusir: contents have
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