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KIURIANO, May 9th.
CONSTANTINOPLE AS A PORT.
PROPOSED INSTITUTION OF FREE PORT,
ARRESTING FALLING-OFF IN TRANSIT TRADE.
The question of ervaring a free Silve: has disappeared from the ab Constantinople has recent- It is every day growing more evi streets, as there who still finve any ly been disenssed in Turkish Gov- dent that the whole proviure of bolt coneval it. The punishment for crument eireles, as also in the local ¦ Kioago has passed into the control those who refus paper money la press. There is a strong current of the Kuomintang Communist left nevy A small money shop, the of oqinion in the Ministry that wing. whose headquarters are at other day, refused to cash sotan( the creation of a free zone at Con- | Finakow, writes a N.-1'. Daily Nours ¦ notes for silver, the manager, was stantinople would be very bened errespondent. The troups of Chiang dragged off to the sungistrate and¦cial in Constantinople if for n
ford exon the whole of his other reason than to arrest perhaps Hai hok's 1st Army, who were re ported to be invading tus prosincel capital. He now is ruined. Under the downward trend of her transit
cast, have failed to such condition, business is impos. Trade.
sible and nearly sil shops el sed.
anateeziarze.
Prox every direction reports con in showing that the Laleur Union. The sleaguers for Shanghai are en operating with Communist magis-paced with the wealthy escaping uptes, are firmaly seated in the from the persecution that awaita sabil. They rule the province with! then. These wealthy Chinese now by hand. here is either find it cheaper to travel 1st class Justice or safety for any Even reign, as the ship's boys and them to those who know and have had ex-empraderes squeeze " perience of the results of Holshe-survifully if they travel 1st class vista are surprised at the rapidity: Chinese, with which conditions have le teriorated to a state of rhnos.
Mobs Turned Looge.
In Kingrehehen the potteries are closed down and 200,000 workmen, notorious for their turbulence, bave a living. In Kanchow, in the far south, trade has censed and the mobs extorta ning from the wealthy who have dared to stay behind to look after thear properties.
one robbers to earn
A Raid At Kullug. Kuling has been visited by an armed gang of rabbers, who attack
the police station and Eitled
They subsequently held sergeant. up one of the wealthy Chinese contractors who live in Kuling, and forted money from them. They and did not enter the estate. Some appear to have done little looting of the robbers have been caught in Kiukian and shot.
ly
Among the business community of Constant Tule there appears to Elitte interest shown in
Lifts question, and even the Chambers of Commerce, both Turkish and nigh, are somewhat reserved and apucat on the subject, Possibly the reason for this absence of any great interest among the local mer- cats is because the creation of A free zone will not really dirent- affect them to any appreciable extent. It is the Municipality of Constantinople or the Government Treasury that will benefit by such a measure, as it is believed that ene of the main results which Gor- ernment circles foresee and expect from the creation of a free zone is the attraction of foreign capital for the setting up of factories, work: shops, etc., within the free zone, which it is calculated) will yield a substantial revenue to the autho- rities in taxes, etc, and will al
ploy a large amount of Turkisfi
flour.
It is hoped by the authorities, that the articles manufactured in the
will be distributed all over the Iree zone of Constantinople Balkan States, and possibly even Russin, and that this, coupled with the facilities for storage of goods cable Constantinople to recover in transit within the free zone, wili¦
great deal of her transit trade which she has been steadily losing
of late.
It is estimated that 5,000 coolics every gear find employment cari The in ath of May sees the open- ing and down the mountain. ng of the tea season, and buyers For the men there is no employ
ment this year and there is little from Shanghai and Hankow should salt that the whole of Kuling,
on their way to Waning and both foreign and Chinese, will b Ining to arrange for the export of visited during the coming summer the tes prop, but the buyers this and tumn by gangs of these vooting who will go from house to Ma few, for many have been lens pilfering until the place has project of law which has bren louted orlean to the last scrap. rodied by the wayside, and many
The post of Superintendent of already been prepared and approv otis prefer not to face the risks
etons in Kiukiang has achieved by the Council of Ministers and of the long journey down from the tea hills by junk with so valuable spularity. The salary is Tls. 2,000 published in the local press, deals Hugo. Moreover, the tea farmers
with the creation of a free zone for will not part with their tea for de-
the following purposes:-- preciated paper money or drafts on Shangla which may be dishonour
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4 Mockery Of Justice.
month. After the flight on board British steamer of the late Super- intendent, Lin Hao, Lin Tso Lith,
Communist, can down frota
were appointed by different parties in nikow who are fighting for the
oils of milice,
Pacifying The Foreigner.
Hakon and took up the post. A few days later, a man named Ting Barrived ånd „laimed the port, stat- We need go no further than Kiu-jing that in was an imposter, and Liang to find conditions typical of now a third ann has arrived. abos which prevail throughout the and Chang, stating that both the movine. Last week, sanie farmers first two are imposters. They all qom the morth bank were visiting! the town, when 20 of their number were seized by labour pickets and murused of having taken part the previous month in the riots which
In all this wetter of turmoil, the ed to the destruction of the Labour freigners for the moment have
the Union's headquarters and
little to fear. As order has come death of two pickets. Twelve of the
risomers were then of no import from Bankow to pacify the for- one and were released. Two of eigners At a recent meeting of the Kiuking Conorat Labour Union, them, with faige sains of money, the headers reported. they haul res hd le magistrate, who let themired instructions to concentrate go. The remaining six were taken
iure a People's Court for trial. their propaganda on Chiang Kai The dge was the local magistrate Sk; the foreigners were to be left and admission to the court was severely alene, as they would be only pen to members of the Labour dealt with later. Union.
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HAF. OFFICERS' THRILLING ESCAPE.
PLANE CRASHES IN FLAMES.
(1) Storage of raw material and manufactured goods from abroad or the interior in transit. By a thrilling parachute descent Parking or repacking | mad · when his machine was hurtling
cleaning manipulation,
to the groual, an R.A.F. officef Classification of merchandise and saved his life are Rouley Aern- similar operations.
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(a) The working up and con- version of raw material.
1 The mounting of rolling stock and other machinery with parts procured from abroad.
young.
Flight Liutenant David d'Arey A. Greig, J.F.CA of the Air Defence Puree, was penetising in a single- sater aeroplane of the 23rd Kenley
( Creation and intallation of fighting Squadron, his machine and. Tactories, workshops, etc, anddenly became uncontrollable when in a spin at a height of 9,000 feet repair yards for shipping, e- ploying either foreign qe local above Chetshau, near Warlingham.
aerial
Spectators on the Surrey Hill saw, to their horror, the plane hurtling down to destruction, and they watched a tiny figare detach itself from the machine.
This draft bill has, of course, will to come before the Grand As bly at Angere for discussion and approval before becoming law.
The success or otherwise of the
free zone would probably depend to a great extent un the ability of the authorities to reduce sufficient-
It was Lieut. Greig, who leaped from the plane with his parachute.
Burst Into Fismes,
After a sheer fall of several hun- ly the present very heavy charges died feet the purachute opened, and for the handling of cargo the
in
the officer floited down on Riddles port, and this in order to compete | with other neighbouring transit down, while his plane sped towards It hit the ground behind a group inore, the shortage of local skilled
of trees, rebounded, turned a com- plastered all over the Concession labour would constitute a difficulty walls are a disgusting sight and he with which the foreign capitalist plete somersault and crashed into the soft earth. There was a loud was told that if he did not cause would have to contend.
of Hame boon to be removed they would be
It is not yet in any way decided explosion and columns removed for him. A gang of coolies, what part of the town will be set shot up witt round the next morning with aside, as a free zone, and, in fret,
Lieut. Greig landed safely two soap, water and wire brushes and believe that in some quarters the miles away, and immediately rang washed off every trace of the advisability of making a free port Kealey Aerodrome to report the of the whole of Constantinople is
Firemen hurried to the plane and being put forward and this pre
extinguished the lands.
dience whether the six men were foreign officials that the posterà ports, c.g., Piraus, etc.; Further, the earth at a terrific speed.
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incident.
They searched the wreckage for
a body and did not lenen until later that the airman had landed safely.
The pilot, a skilled airman, is posted at the Central Flying School, Wittering.
Figures In The Sky. Mr. W. D. Moors, proprietor of the Rose and Crown Hotel, Riddles down, gave a graphic account of the accident.
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guilty or unt and the audience con donned them. So they were taken out and shot in an open space near Buff's Farm. They were shot be for a crowd of 10,000, who had gathered to enjoy the spectacle They were shot to the clupping of hands, first in the arms and legs, and then, when they had writhed suficiently, they were killed. Such is justice in the Treaty Port of Kiukiang, two months after the It is not only in Hankow that sumably owing to the difficulty and expense of creating a satisfactory control of the Concession has been the presence of the foreigners is and sufficiently large new port to Unsferred to the modern Nation watched with anxiety. Locally the serve as the port of the free zone. alist Government of China.
people are terrified lest there should All Shanghai Chinese newspapers a foreign incident resulting in the Kiukisng the withdrawal of the foreigners stippressed in Post Office by Red censors and the and their ships, for it is an open local Chinese are entirely depen- secret that, in that same hour is dent on foreign sources for their which the foreign men-of-war leavo news, except for such propaganda Kiuking, the native city will be WHAT BRITAIN PAYS COM- as is ladled out by the local Com-losted by the soldier hordes who munist publication, the Run Minat prosent are living on the people.
Quite by chance," he said, "I Main Wen. The Chinese do not The soldiers have acquired a very discuss politics in public; it is not wholesome respect for the guns of
Major Tryon, Minister of Pen- looked up to watch a plane coming. safe. There have been over 100 foreign monet-war and it is this signs, at the British Legion Club, over from Kenley Aerodrome. Sud- excentions in Kiukiang aloue dur riapert only which stands between Brighton, said that in Great Bri. deny there were some sharp reports ing the past month. They come the Chinese citizens of Kiukiang tain the compensation paid to which I could hear quite plainly, stealthily into your room and nak and looting, rapine and murder. disabled officers and men and other although the machine was at a for news and before they discuss
Those Chinese contributors to the sufferers from the Great War re- great height, in the air, and, stroath. the situation they make sure that correspondence columes of the presented an average contribution of smoke came from the fuselage, I could just see the figure of the door is property closed.. Norththing Daily News, when per head of the population of
they state that there are no Chiz about 20s. This was one half a plane, but as it rushed to earth a man hanging, to the body, of the Embargo On Silver.
nese who desire foreign intervennuh again as the corresponding with a cloud of black, smoke behind
made in France, Khabarga has been declared on tian, are writing parest moonshine contribution
it in the sky the man seemed to the use of silver. Tho silver is regarding the safety of a foreign Germany, and the United States. required for sending to Hankow, Concession defended by foreign Since the Armistice the Ministry throw himself free, and I saw that where it is said it will be used to troops. Let them come to Kiu- had spent £9,000,000 in weekly he was equipped with a parachute, pay the troops. Others say that the kiang, if they dare, and they will allowances for the maintenance of which son opened.
The smoking plane came hurt- Hankow labour leaders and agita find that the Chinese not only hope children, and even now more thun tors feel their time is short and for foreign intervention but pray. £8,000,000 a year was absorbed in ling down, and an it crashed it
this Besides the maintenance burst into
way. they are collecting the silver for for it.
flames." The Kiukiang Chinese and their allowance, the Ministry could, un- their own use, lining their pockets
There
where Are few cases while the going still is good. The fellow-citizens throughout the ter der certain conditions, help in the
Since the .A.F. pilots bave been able to merchants" books are examined and ritory where Hankow holds away education of children. TONG KONG HANSARD RE- THERAPION No. 1 their houses senrobed and, if silver now realize, too late, that foreign Armistice nearly 23,000 children save themselves from a crash by
by Ministry official. PORTS of the MEETING THERAPION NO. 2 found, it is taken from them and intervention is the only bops left had been nasisted to obtain technical the use of a parachuto," said an Air
they are offered paper notes in ex- to them. Perhaps in the fulness of secondary or higher education of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL for the Session 1929.
THERAPION No. 8 change. These provisional notes of time the foreign Powers will inter grants from the Ministry. At the Mo Itor Fadder Osterk. Ro. 1 for Bloodkie the Central Bank sro useless for vene to restore peace to the land present moment some 5,800 children C No. 1 Ion Chronie Wakummet, ROGA ST BAINS & CREA, PROD GANE I DE EN Coast huying drafte on Shanghai and and to make employment possible were being so assisted. The Minis was Dog Havermouk Köy 1.473. Leedus, should, for instance, Chiang Kai again for the hungry mobs thrown try was spending £2,500,000 a year Shek re-occupy Kiukiang, they im- out of employment by the tactics in the relief of cases of mental and
nervous trouble. audiately would become valueless. of a Communist Government,
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