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DISORDER AND APATHY.
THE BRIGAND MENACE.
Two months ago, anya a correspondent to the Y.-C. Daily News, 1 travelled from Peking to Yencheng. Honan, and early in December ago my wife arrived. at Yencheng after making the same trip.
On both trips the journey on the 'so called express was made in compara- tive comfort, the attendants on the train being courteous and ebliging. Travell- ing, however, is very slow, and the engines cannot supply steam for heating the carriages.
On both trips the engines broke down completely after passing Paotingfu When I was travelling, the engine driver protested at Paoting that be could
ga no farther, but was told he must do the best he could as no other engine was available though there were several standing in the yard, each requisitioned by some general or another for his private use. We waited for 19 hours be 'fore another engine could be brought up from Shihcflächuang, and completed the trip to Cheachow in just upder 48 hours.
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for severui: hours waiting for the Chibli governor's train to move, which it eventually did after having blocked all traffic on the line at that point for several days. No. other engine was available when their engine broke down, but after waiting 2 hours an ordinary came along, and their train was coupled on to this, rench- ing Chengehow 04 hours after dispatch from Peking. Time-tables in today's paper still advertise, this train as rua- ning through in Chengchow in 17 hours, and then going on to Hankow, though the line has been broken south of Hsin- yangehow for several months now.
The Military Obstacle.
As Chengehow seven of the nine, tracks available for through running are held by standing military trains, so there is endless delay in getting into the station, as the two remaining tracks have to take all the cross traffic between Honanfu and Hauchowiu, as well as that north and south and provide in part for shunt- ing also.
There is ample room for all the mili tary trains on the sidings at Cheng- chow, and they could be moved from the main tracks, but presumably it would be beneath the dignity of any of these jostling big hata" to have their par- ticular train on a siding, and so forsooth the main running tracks must be occupi- ed and the platforms turned into a camping ground.
Nendescript Trains.
The ordinaries" seem to be running "both north and south about once in three days though there is no fixed time. The ignorance of the staff as to the move- ments of trains, whether faigned or real, is, colossal. When the trains do come in they consist of a few very decrepit third class coaches gathered--from---various lines. Windows there are none; a few seats remain; and the luggage racks Beem to be fairly intact. The rest of the trains is made up of a collection of trucks...
These too are in a deplorable condi tion of disrepair and dirt. The era- ployees on the line bave lost all heart, and there is no opportunity to repair or cleanse, the rolling stock even if the desire to do so existed, for as soon as one crowd disgorges itself and even be fore, another fighting crowd forces its way on to the train. Small blame to the waiting crowd either, for it may have been waiting there for two days lar this chance. Everyone finds a place and settles in on, his luggage, but as the train may wait anything up to two days be fore an engine can be fo d to take it on its return trip, the cla staked out by all except the military joy-riders are more and more encroached upon as the pressure increases with the oncoming crowd.
Danger of Brigands. -
The country to the east of Yencheng is infested by briganda, many thousands strong. They are in process of being incorporated into the Honsn army, but in the meantime must live. This, and the general peaceable disposition. of the Chinese soldier probably explains why with something like 200,000 soldiers in Honan, a large number of whom are in the railway zone, no less than three of the stations between Heuchang and Yen- cheng have been raided with impunity within the last few weeks. So now no trains travel on this section at night.
When we left Chengchow on the 12th instant, fighting was in progress be- tween Tungkuin, which has fallen to Kuominchun, and Shanchow which wAL held by Liu Chen Hua's men. In spite of repeated newspaper reports there were no signs of Chang Tso Lin's men eoming through either from the north or from Hsuchowie.
Conditions here at Yencheng, are pretty bad, and life in the country to the east is simply impossible for the poor people.
RUBBER PRICES. LATEST SINGAPORE QUOTATIONS. Messrs. Carroll Bros. have received a cable from Singapore announcing the following prices of rubber shares:
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9.10 2.80
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1.75
9.25
Kedahs
4.40
Lunia
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4.00 4.85
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COMDR. KENWORTHY SHOCKS HIS SOCIALIST FRIENDS.
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When Commander Kenworthy took his seat in the House of Commons, after re-election as member for Central Hull, there were cries from Labour members of Where's Mond?"
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They were contrasting Commander Kenworthy's procedure of resigning his seat on change of party with Bir Alfred. Mond's refusal to resign when he joined the Conservatives though the Carmarthen Liberal Association asked him to do so and he had previously offered to accept their decision.
TO-DAY'S "
started in Tientsin with the Objeto of ACCIDENT supplying cinema films on Chinese sub- jects and performed by Chinese actors and actresses,
This is the Chinese American Motion Picture Company, incorporated in the United States, the formal opening of whose temporary studio at Tao Yuan Garden, Race Course Road, took place on December 15th."
Sir Alfred was not in the House when these challenging cries were raised...
Commander Kenworthy made his first speech from the Labour beaches on the Palestine Loan Bill four hours after be The incorporators are Messrs. Stanley. was sworn in.
E. Young, T., S. Wong, Alexandroff and This speech shocked some of his new B. Vargasoff and the authorised capital is Labour friends. It was on the money Gold $100,000. The directors include resolution for Palestine and East Africa ex-President Li Yuan Hung, Mr. Chen loads, and Mr. Hugh Daiton (a Front Chu Ling, General S. T. Shu, Dr. CIT Bencher) and other Labourists had made Chen, Mr. Stanley E. Young, Mr. T. E sharply critical speeches
Simmang, Mr. Gilbert Ly, Mr. Alexsa-
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Commander Kenworthy gave enthu siastic support to the Palestine loan, and Serge Vargasoff is in charge of the praised the Government for supporting technical side of the Company's work. « the splendid effort, of the Jews, who, ho It is hoped to produce Chinese films of said, had been 'pouring, wealth into the real artistic merit, including historical country,
dramas, and
engage actors and He was soon in condict with Mr. actresses of standing for this work. A Dalton, and, not content with replying similar enterprise in Indik has recently to the official spokesman of his own achieved saccess with Aims of indigenous party, went on to defend the Govern-life in that country and it is thought that ment against criticisms by a Conserva-China will appreciate in undertaking of tive member, Sir Frederic Wise.
this nature. Peking & Tientsin Times.
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