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In the following article, which we reproduce from the “ North China Daily News," Mr. Rodney Gilbert, weges with Mis usual vigour and directness, that the European powers take over the whole of the Shanghai native city and suburb. He is utterly sceptical of the ability of the Chineic to preserve peace and order in any part of their country.
More tentatively he pushes his argument to its logical -conclusion, that China should be forcibly rescued from her present "
exploiters, Reds," brigands, agitators and adverturers and governed by Europeans till a native governing plass has been trained in modern"administration.
Someone
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TRAGEDY OF RUSSIAN
DANCER:
FURTHER EVIDENCE AGAINST
HOLDING UP A CAN- TONESE ARMY.
'. RUSSIAN CONSTABLE, **GEN. "WHAT. HO" ON A
HOLES IN THE MOTOR CAR.
DONKEY.
SERGEANT TAINT OF THE BORDER REGT.
"RED" REWARDS.
HOW COMMUNIST TEACHERS ENCOURAGE · CHILDREN.
PARIS
Red good-conduct marks given in schools which have Communist teachers is stated to be the best form of Bolshevik propaganda in Part
These good-conduct marks, print- ed on red cardboard, bear on one alde a picture of two Communist Sir Percival Phillips, special can soldiers with a machine-gun watch- Daily Mail," ing over a burning city, while the respondent of the gives the following amusing demitre and other emblems of civilisa. seription of a recent incident at tion and religious power lie on the Shanghai:-
ground beside them.
On the reverse is a short text explaining Communist ideals.
Paris municipal councillors are demanding that this Communist pro- Paganda should cease and that teachers responsible for 'it should be dismissed at once.
The case was continued last week, in the Special Provisional. Court, before Judge Li Ching Foo, with whom sat Mr. C. E Whitemore, the Senior Consul's Deputy, of the charge against Michael Parshekoff, The Arst experience which the former constable in the employ of Cantonese Army of Occupation had the Shanghai Municipal Poles in of British troops must have been a connection with the murder of a profound surprise, for they were Russian girl named Clara Frolova handled like a section of London some time between 9 pm on the traffic by a matter-of-fact N.C.O.. Sergeant Taint, whose platoon of the 2nd Battalion the Border Regi- ment confronted them beyond the
P.-C. Bengtsson (No. 158); accus.
that he saw Parsbekoff sitting an his bed, at about 11.30
p.m. that
beginning of the British cerdon which is protecting the Interna- tional Settlement.
The Sign of THE
ADVERTISING
and PUBLICITY BUREAU
It will be conceived an occasion account for much delay and loss of night of February 13th and 4 am. for great rejoicing in many foreign mail, unauthorized censorship and on the following day." circles, that the nationalists" who what not, there is undoubtedly ined's room mate, told the Judge have so persistently persecuted for telligent directiod, eigners and wrecked all economie dictating tactics who appreciates life throughout the South, should] how essential to the economic life in
This meeting occurred a mile weat of the junction of the Franco-British have met with serion reverses at a modern community is a thorough day in evening dress.
Mr. B. Z. O'Brien testified that fine, where Hunjao Road crosses the Yangchow and should have beenly, trustworthy postal service. This
railway leading from the South to forced to escape to the South bank can undoubtedly be remedied, but he had authorized his chauffeur to the North Stano
sell his eq to the accused. Th Here a detachment of 30 men of the Yangtze again. In the same such conditions should hot have way the lull that is locally ap heen tolerated. so long. It seeWhen, after the New Year, witness C. Cottrell-Hill, was stationed as an the Border was some time around Christmas. from B Company of
Regiment, commanded by Lieut. R. parent in labour agitation during | possible that within a few days the
did not receive any payment from outpost. the past few days seems already to Post Office may find itself with a be engendering in Shanghai a false large staff having no parcels or cused promised in good faith to pay Sergeant Taint saw
accused, houseat him a note. Ac At about 5 p.m. the post at the
railway crossing commanded by The Advertising Agency letters to sort and can then be
guard of Cantonese infantry ap
...that supplies Advertisers preaching across the fekis from the
senior officer said he wanted to go Designs for Posters and At the When they came up to the rest the Original Copy, Ideas, and in charge of two officers with a Completa Service of
to the North Station. He was in- formed that he could go where he Blocks, liked if he kept beyond or on the railway
sense of security."
$150.
south
an advance
Handshake And A Salute,
Alexandra Building..
...that checks all insertions in Foreign and Chinese A short and quite amicable con- versation terminated in one oficer papers for its Clients, saluting Sergt. Lain; and the other shading harus with him. The Uhr...that has an unrivalled nese abour-turmed, their men and and Extensive knowledge of marched in the direction of biccave the best media for all classes village, opposite the French portion of the cordon,
of Advertisers,
The main body of the "Cantonesc
troops bivouacked for the night.
It cannot be too strongly em shown the shortest way to the witness at least 25 per cent., if phasized, at such a time as this, boundaries which will be particu- not all, of the balance on Monday that an easing of the local situation | larly salutary if the Shantung siternoon at 9 p.m. is not even the beginning of the generals happen to be on the other pointed time, accused paid him solution of the larger problems of side. The same Bolshevik rot is, foreign relations in China and that, however, going on in other services if periods of case and comparative and this form of disease can spread The Suspicious Holes, peace come from time to time, they as rapidly underground as above it. Continuing, witness said that he should not be used as periods of re-i
Occupy All Shanghai, noticed nothing in accused that at- laxation, bet as opportunities for
tracted his attention. As to cer- consolidating our position and for Large bodies of foreigners who tain hoies in the back of the cazy préparations against the inevitable are usually most solicitous about these were there during witness's troubles of the future. The re- China's rights and China's suscep ownership. An Indian watchman conquest of all this area by the tibilities, have been getting suff had shown him these and explained Narth-particularly by such per- ciently short-tempered and nervous the causes of them. sons as Chang Tsung Chang, might to shake themselves out of their
G. Ivanovsky said he had known bring the foreigner some survease fond illusions and ace both local from active persecution, but those, and international problems in a accused for several years, first in who live in the comparatively new light. Consideration for Vladivostock. Accused had a good friendly North can bear ample Young China's feelings and face reputation there and he had come infantry, was afterwards observed...that being independent, witness that it will be no guarantee have been jettisoned wholesale since from a good family. The holes re of lasting peace, no guarantee of one element in Young China insists ferred to by the previous witness trosg on this area, and the can place all this know, greatly improved economic condi- upon spreading mendacious were burnt holes. They were there
At 10 o'clock in the morning they ledge and experience at the tions in the hinterland upon which planations of the savage outrages when the car was sold to accused.
began a rather undignified march free disposal of its Clients! Shanghai and other ports must and cruelties that another element The hearing was 'adjoarned.
along the railway line, which here ensuring that the money draw if they are to be anything perpetrates,
If there is a third ware A year hence than armed decent element, ita so silent that
with no regard to military forma they spend on Advertising camps subsidized from abroad. it can be ignored.
exigency hat in the anime of comation, they were not even in step, as will bring them the best The Bellance On Chlang.
These things being so, there is a mon humanity, to relieve our im- they shuffed past Sergt. Taint and possible return. very big and rapidly growing body mediate neighbours on the other In the local industrial world of foreign opinion, that endorses, side of an almost imaginary boun again there is no sign of real im- without equivocation or reserve, in- dary from the tyranny of all the provement.
For political reasons, ternational intervention in China various breeds of trouble makers Chiang Kai Shek and his im as the only possible way out of who oppren them-the organizers mediate local subordinates have chaos confounded. This same large of political strikes, the Red agita seen fit to make it lively for the body of opinion endorses with even tors, the soldier-bandits of various his rivals in the Southern organiza tension of divil administration, as amassini Armed ruffians who are the allies of greater emphasis the immediate ex- successive armics and the paid tion. This is no promise that he well as military control, over all will not avail himself of their the communities between Woosung, services to open fresh campaigns and the Arsenal, including Chapel,
when against imperialism"
Nantao, Langhua and the Native has adjusted his differences, nor City. that there will not be one of these
he
ex
forma, a great loop. They moved
his men, who sat on boxes beside the metals watching them with stave disapproval.
We have all known for a long kaleidoscopic Chinese turnovers to time that Shanghai was not readily Imorrow which will see Chiang Kai defensible against hostile military overwhelmingly big job to restore the higher ones mounted on tired
taking over
eign outrages and then deplored to hoard their wealth under our these local responsibilities, one won-
give us a warrant for assuming hands at him like sa audience at a
rescue her from her
theatre.
Telephone Central 30
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aus procession, lacking the jubilant It was an amazingly miscellane- air one naturally expected in a con quering army. First came about 3,000 infantry in shapeless padded grey tunics and ragged trousers, carrying rifles of various kinds, and Irresponsible Anarchy. dangling by frayed bits of atring Here is an opportunity for test- from their balts were Mills bombs. ing our ability to control a Chinese A few had their umbrellas hoisted situation and to settle the eternal protection against the mild) argument that goes on in foreign sunshine.
There were officers at intervals; circles as to whether it would be an Shek a refugee and Borodin or his
forces, mob action, propaganda,
order in China, and then police and little ponies, the others shambling agents the masters of the suburbs of the Shanghai Settlement.
ordinary day-to-day crirat, disease administer the country witil the indifferently as they pleased... Some arising from elevenly Chinese sani Chinese were trained up to the task were mere boys, a few were elderly Foreigners in this country who tary methods, gunmen in political of governing themselves, or whether men, and many were of the specta are not accustomed to following employ, nor the sort of Red in it would be a light, easy and inex cled student type. Chinese affairs closely, have short trigue which has undermined the pensive ask. Certainly, if we he Gold Tabs Oz & Donkey, memories and are likely to forget efficiency of the Chinese Post Office sitate to assume responsibility for "There was # distinct sensation essential things in the quiet inter and robbed it of public confidence setting to rights the terrorized and among the crowd of Chinese pea mezzos that sometimes come in the Shanghai can never be either clean downtrodden communities that are santa, spectators around the British Chinese hurly-burly. They forget, aor safe, nor can order be mal with the large force of armed men an officer with gold shoulder strapa contiguous with this Settlement, post, when the impressive figure of for instance, that in Canton Chiang waned, until the boundaries of the W Kai Shek flopped a dozen times Settlement are extended to include available, to make a beginning stride a donkey hove in sight. He from the Right camp into the Left all the suburbs, where trouble and there is not much use in talking had a bundle of maps under his camp and back again into the disease do their nesting and hatch about humanity's responsibility for arm, and as the donkey strolled by Right, expelled Russians and iming. We have always owed it to
and organizing on he smiled and saluted like a vic ported new ones, allowed his senior ourselves and to the hundreds of civilized lines China as a whole. If torious Emperor entering his cen supporters to perpetrate anti-for thousands of Chinese who come here present conditions in China do not tal. The Chinese clapped their them and issued promises of pro flags and work in safety under our dere how much lower China must tection. If he needs the armed protection, to take this step, but the
He was said to be General Ho, anti-foreign rif-raff, the agitators suggestion of it to a friendly and sink before it will devolve upon commanding these troops of the and the gunmen in Shanghai to sensitive China seemed out of the
humanity marrow to reestablish bis control question. Now the need is not oppressors and looters, her fanatics First Division of the First Revolu. Or
tionary Army. His obvious feeling and her Red, birelinga of the nationalist " movement, casual but is imminent and, what
of gratification at the plaudits of he will release them ir greater anti- is more, ample reason has been
Both the provocation and the the country folk might have been foreign disturbances than ever to given at many points on the Yang- Deed for action are self-evident diminished afterwards if he had win their confidence and adherence. taze for taking any steps essential and, in spite of the fact that this known that before he advanced or that northern militarist has more than a few hundred yards past Communists Active As Evez,
to our comfort or safety.
takea Yangchow or the fact that s the post the British Army was The local Communist party mean-
"nationalist" Boxer has devoured
coming to know him 48. General while, knowing all these things From a military point of view, a few communist Boxers here to What Hot better than we do, is by no means the defence of Shanghai along antionalists" by communists sotno offset the consumption of a few
Half A Minute Thorė,"! or ever subdued. The crooked and impracticable boun suppressed labour unions are just as active | dary line keeps at the established where else, and that things look a Nor would he have felt exhilar ever, though in less conspicuour posts a great body of men who little brighter to the short-sighted, ated by the sight of Sergt. Taint at fields. This in evident from the could be removed from these posts the need for intervention is going the cross roads treating his and all fact that during the past week if Chapel were taken over and the, to be no less a month later and the the conquering troops lize the notices have been served on numbers line of demarcation removed a suff- urgent need for taking over the police on duty deal with a proces-
Telegraphic Tranter
on demand...] 184 of Chinese, who held responsible cient distance north and west to Settlement's suburbs will probably sion of London taxicabs in Pic
CALODIZA positions in Shanghai firma Thers give an open field of fire, whereafter be much greater.
cadilly. Utterly unmoved by any Here a promise of renewed strike the men now at stationary posts
Telegraphic Transfer Splits in the Kuomintang offer no emotion, Sergt. Taint let the column
Bank Bills, on demand...} 134) activity, more highly systematized could be employed in patrolling the Promise of less anarchy in "nationgo its informal way until a motor- OX SHANGHAL than ever, for instead of wholesale district and in bringing the light irresponsible anarchy. The possible jae Road either on his side of the
alist areas, hat threaten us with car, jinricksha, or cart in the Hung- Brak Bill, terrorism, the unions are getting to agitators and the troublesome r
ps Bill, at sight
J down to the careful selection of dregs of the community in a way ascendancy of Chang Tsung Chang railway, or beyond, was halted by Or Toxanada on demand... 994. key men, some of whom have pro that they would understand. and his ilk promises nothing the advancing army. Then he Or MARILL-On demand... 98 bably proved to be obstacles to the Thousands of Chinese workers, now but military tyranny, ruinous taxa thrust his arm authoritatively across Or
Or Badeland... success of strikes in recent years, compelled by high renta to live tion, interrupted communications the metals.
domand 121 men whose removal would make the gutside the
present Settlement and the inevitable increase in crime "Half a minute there," said he,OF HALPHONG-On demand....nem. intimidation of the rank and Blé a boundaries could be given a arns and open banditry that accom and obediently the column halted, Or Batons-On demand simple, matter.
of security and released from the panies there conditions.
whether the men nearest him hap Or Boxo On demand... intimidation which now keeps the
Nothing in China is going to pened to be coolies bowed under SozXION, Bank Baying rate $0.65
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of the Chinese people but reliance signal lanterns or fur-coated com- the disorganization and demoraliza tion in the Post Office to
The astonishing freedom of then our own strength and an assump. pany commanders brandishing walk. appreciate
tion of our own, responsibilities, ing-sticks. that the cause" is still being for Settlement from the merciless and the sooner we all realize this
*KET FRINGE ERORDI. The shout would go up, "Halt the warded with great vigour. Rumours tactics of ruffians and guminen in and abandon the futile and dis procession behind and a foreiga THERAPION NO. 1 and inquiries concerning the irregu curfew and the highly efficient faith upon self-necking, weak-kneed, art would cut through the army.
largely due to the enforcement of couraging practice of pinning our car or perhaps a rickety. Chinese THEBAPION NO. 2 larities
in the mails are increasing. patrol system carried out by both voraciously greedy official looters
THERAPION" No. 3 by frequent daily and the feeling volunteers and regulars and is of the Chinese nation as our chan- Taint would then shout, not ankind. Nel 1, for Faddle Catarrh. a. 2 for Nicod ski Growing that it is no loPG. Behind evidence of what could be done, not pinna, the shorter will be the period ly, and again the ragged regiments entrust letters to the C.P.O. the things that are going on in the only in the name of military of worry and tribulation for those would plod their way forward along Post Office which are supposed to
(Continued on next Column); who have a stake in the land. I the railway embankment.
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