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HUNAN UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKS.
PROVINCE COMPLETELY SOVIETIZED.
NO JUSTICE OBTAINABLE AGAINST UNIONS,
DESTRUCTION OF TRADE AND PROPERTY,
Ti
A REIGN OF TYRANNY AND TERROR.
Since the Cantonese invasion a great nat ominous change has come over the province of Hunan, which no subsequent permutations of policy and personnel government can entirely efface.
HONG KONG IMPORTS.
FORTNIGHTLY PRICE CUR HENT AND MARKET REPORT.
BY HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The fortnightly price current and market report published by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, dealing with imports, states:-
COTTON PIECE. GOODS AND FANCY COTTON GOODS.-A fair amount of enquiry covering most styles. of Staples and Fancies but the quan tity brought to book is poor in com- parison with former years due prin cipally to the uncertainty of the political
The latest quotations are those of the 9th Eg... Saket. 13.86d. Amer. iast. "Spot" 7.06d
'situation.
Decay Of All Authority. The Chambers at Commerce in many places have, as a consequence of discussions between them and the Kuomintang, been superseded by Commercial Associations formed on The relations of General Tang revolutionary principles, and the Seng Chi with the Nationalist members of the older institutions Government at Canton, which had persecuted sa traitorous merchants, countenanced his intrigues against avaricious misers and grasping
COTTON YARN.-There have been Governor Chan Heng. Ti, led to in landlords. The decay of authority some enquiries daring the interval creased communist activity on his in instanced everywhere. At Liu and a small business was put Assumption of the governorship of yang during September the Kup through in spot and forward at an the province in March last. The nintang made the situation improvement of $1 to 8 per bale. Quotations are purely. nominal te Governor himself, however, made possible that the magistrato and No. 10. 8140/153; No. 12. $143/160: 161 $105/170; No. 90s. no secret of his own policy of main- many of the merchants were forced No.
Arrivals: to leave for Changsha To cite a
300 bales. taining the constitution and an-specific case as exemplary of their tonomy of Hunan and declared methods, an Army sub-contractor, openly that no communist measures who was a member of the local Kuo- minthog, forced the principal con- would be introduced into the protractor to pay for supplies allegedly after the Chinese New Year, with vince with his sanction..
to have been delivered at the front The counter-revolution of General for, which he could produce no re Yeh and other commanders of the ceints whatever. At Tachsing in northern faction, however, which October the magistrates, and police forced General Tang to withdraw were driven out by the rabble at his forces southward to Hengchow the Instigation of the local com- forced him simultaneously into tunnist party. As Liling on Nov: closer relations with the Southern ember 1st the Hauch Chik Hui col Government. The first indications lected all articles of foreign appear of his change of front were his as ance from the passengers on the sumption of the title of Com train and destroyed them: Siang mander-in-Chief of the Sth Revolutan entirely in the hands of tionary Army and the establish ment of provincial headquarters of the provincial headquarters of the Kuomintang at Yungehow.
Soviet System Arrives, On his return to power in July,
with the support of Southern re- inforcements and supplies, the Kuo- mintang aesumed virtual control of
labour. The gentry and merchants are in terror of their lives and the authorities are powerless to inter fere with the unions. A thief was recently released from custody on the representation of his union that
he was acting under economic
pressure.
mission
8173/150. Shipments: Vil. Sales: 1,000 hales Unsold stock: 1.000 bales. Bargaina: 13,000 bales.
WOOLLEYS.—Market opening slow-
dull and uncertain tone.
RAW COTTON8.-No sales to report. METALS-Market dull, very little
doing.
FLOUR MARKET REPORT-Stocks: About 600 sacks. Market: There is very little movement and prices have a declining tendency. Quota- tions: American Pitcat, 84.30 4.45 per sack; American Straight, $3.20 5.co per sack; American Cut off, 83.30-3.50 per sack; Shanghai Flour, $3.33 per sack;.Australian No. 1 $3.53-3.75 per sack; Canadian Cut of, 35.25-3.33 per sack, Canadian Straight, $2.15-3.95 per sack; Cana- dian Mixture, 83.05-3.25 per sack,
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SUNDRIES.Market dull.. SUGAR-Market dull. Peasants, labourers and students
SALTPETRE-Stocks: 14,500 "baga commenced in August last an in-Tone of the market seems to be pro- the province and provincial intensive propaganda. against Chris- terests were absorbed into the anity as a weapon in the hands mising after New Year Holidays. general sphere of Southern policy. of imperialism. Missian premises The provincial government was were invaded and their contents remodelled and in place of the goy destroyed. The trouble culminated ornership and its subordinate de in October in a revolt of the stud- partments a commitee of govern-eats, supported by other organiza. ment was established on Sovies linee tions, against the faith and de with General Tang Seng Chi as its mands for the abolition of religions chairman. The provincial assembly instruction in favour of the three disappeared and the management prine
principles of the late leader of the of district affairs was banded
The members of the over party. to the local representatives of the were eventually hounded out of the newly established anions of work place and a jeering borde of their men and peasants.
The arrival of former beneficiaries pursued them, General Chiang Kai Shek in by light of lanterns and with August accentuated the change, threats of violence, down the river General Tang and his policy of of their exodus. provincial autonomy were relegated
Red Now Dominant. to the background in favour of the nationalist party and the concep-
Of professing Bolshevists there tions of Canton.
are said to be some 3,000 in Chang, "Before the arrival of the Can-ha alone, students, peasants and tonese and the consequent subje labourers with a few professional "Afterwards, any of you tion of the province to the Kaomin politicians. The red of the nation-terested in jigsaw puzzles can, ry tung the Hauen Chih Hui had acted list dag has now become the do- to put him together again," he as the representative of that party minant colour. It fies from the added. and had conducted on its behalf the masta of junks and is borne in all The victim was, of course, a life- anti-British campaign. The activi-processions, even nuptia! and size model with a detachable chest. ties of this society are still wide burial. It is no mean asset to the
The next item was a film showing spread and malignant, but it is cause of communism in this country the blood corpuscles racing through gradually being shouldered out of that red has always been the colour the arteries and lungs. power and its functions usurped by of happy augury so a superstitious the Tao Wu Hsier Hui which was people. On the occasion of the re directly established by the Kuomin- cent anniversary of the Russian re tang. The Chairman of both so-volution the city was placarded cieties is an out-of-work teacher named Hsin Hai who is concurrent Jy the local leader of the parent or ganization.
"Look!" said the Professor, as be went about his work. "Here
his heart are his lungs... his diaphrago. Here's his liver," and so on.
in-
Boy's Horse-Power. The lungs Professor Hill ex- plained, were really a gigantic air with denunciations of imperialism bag, over the surface of which and eulogies of the Soviet Repub swarmed twenty-five million, mil- lies. In the evening an enormous lion corpuscles when the body was procession with lanterns wound its at rest. If all the little air sacs way through the streets and pared were spread out they would occupy. ed before the residence of the
an area of 100 aquare yarda work-Russian Consul.
A Black Outlook,
In the light of recent events the view that there is little danger of a Bolshevist China may have to be revised. Historically and ethnical
Finally, Professor Hill demon- strated how the oxygen consumed could be zneasured in relation to the carbonic acid breathed out. He attached his daughter Felly to one bag and his son David to another, both with masks over their faces,
Tyranny Over A The unions of peasants and men were established" not, 15 28 generally the case, for mutual pro fection and collective bargaining. but for the specific purpose of fur thering communist ideals and or ganizating communist patrol of the province. They have largely ly the two peoples are related and and told one to lie down and the achieved their
object. All classes an important factor common to both other to jump about like a Jack-in- are subjected to their tyranny. The is the absence of any reverence for the Box. peasants dictate the rents and the law, as distinct from subservience The jumper, of course, filled his objections of a recalcitrant land- to authority, In truth, so far at lord are met by his denunciation least as the southern section of the bag the quicker,, because he was
using more oxygen. as an imperialist and an enemy of condition of the people and their ed to his air bag, on a fixed cycle. is concerned the economic Then he put David, still attach- the people. Landlords have bout curenalility to mass suggestion ren- beaten to death in disputes their rents. It is said that in a der them as susceptible to the and made him pedal as il escaping from В policeman. Observations village peat Changsha there was suasion and domination of a re-showed that he could develop near-
1.S minority
were the such a dispute recently between the solute
ly one-third horse-power. owner of a farm and his tenant, peasants and workmen of Russian. The Boat Race crews, na a result of which the landlord The Hunanese of all provincials Professor Hill, "develop about five- was killed...
eighths-horse-power per man-about the greatest any man can do for a considerable time."
The local court took jurisdiction over the murderer, but his union removed him from its custody. Offi- cial condonation of crime and im morality is further evidenced in the affiliation, with the approval of the authorities, of the robbers' and pro- stitutes' guilds to the general union of labour.
are
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perhaps, the most sensitive to such influence, and it would be pre- sumptuous to prophesy that worse thing is to befall them. A few days ago a Chinese of high local standing expressed the fest that a time was coming more sub- versive of the existing bases of society than was the French Revolu tion.-G. Daily News.
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