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THE HONG KONG
FLEEING FROM WAR AND POVERTY.
MIGRATION TO MAN-
CHURIA...
10,000 A MONTH.
AMERICA'S. FAR EAST
TRADE. -
INCREASE LAST YEAR,
SOME BIG FIGURES.
HOW
THE "ST: RAPHAEL"
AT THE
"SET, OUT.
CAPTAIN HAMILTON'S
FOREBODINGS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15th, Exports from the United States NEARLY AN INITIAL SMASH. MOVEMENT HAS NO to the Far East during the fiscal
POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
scar 1923.23 show gain o! "A London paper to hand gives 261,230,000 or about 8 per cent. over the following account of the start The greatest migration in the that of 1024-23, according to J. of the ill starred St. Raphael on world to-day, equal, says the Daily Nunn, Regional Information Divi- her attempt to gross the Atlantic Mail, to the great movement of sion, Department of Commerce, from England. peoples from Europe to the United Imports, however, declined almost Colonel Minchin and Captain ; States when that movement was at 13 per cent to $1,293,169,000, largely Leslie Hamilton, both famous fly- its height, is taking place into the because of lower prices in rawing men were the pilots and they vast unsettled plains of Manchuria, silk, crude rubber, sugar and jute had as passenger the sexagenarian This year almost a million new products.
Princess, Lowenstein-Wertherin, the settlers, Bering from poverty `and During 1027 approximately 70 English widow of a German prince. war, will move from over-populated per cent of the United States ex- The aeroplane was sighted by an and war-wracked Shantung and porta to the Orient consisted of oil tanker the Jorick Macey 500 Chilli into the "Last West" of seven products; Raw cotton valued miles from Ireland and that was North Manchuria.
at. 8133,118,000; mineral oils, at the last seen of it. The special cor-/
Through the ancient gateway in 607,176,000; automotive products, respondent of our contemporary
at $88,282,000.; the Great Wall at Shanhaikwan and;
machinery at states:- through the modern port of Dairen
874,272,000, iron and steel, at I was the last to shake hands
are pouring a grent multitude, 859,045,000; tobacco products, at with Colenel Minchin and Captain
10.000 a month. The Governments! of the Manchurian provinces are
t
-839,210,000; and „Himber,
Leslie Hamilton when they left 826,000,000. In contrast ruw and Upavon, Wilts, to By to Ottawa, manufactured silk, crude rubber and of, all the crowd assembled to
giving great assistance to the misaad jute products made up prac-watch the departure, I was perhaps | ration. Railways are charging only
escape of the St. Raphael from crashing when it rose just over the
a nominal amount for transportation tically 6 per cent of the total the only one to witness the narrow
value of imports. to the able immigrant and providing
Five countries, Japan, Australia, free passage" for men and women China as a whale, the Philippines sunken road.
over 50 years old and to all children under 10.
and India, secounted for 59.6 per cent. or one per cent, more than
The newcomers, as a rule, head for the territory lying along the
last year of our total exports to the undefined border of Inner Mongolia,
Far Eastern countries. These fre where a strange situation is being
countries also supplied 85.5 per brought about by them. In many
cent. of the total Oriental products imported, the remainder being cases they acquire, crop-sharing furnished by New Zealand and the Icases on land owned by the various Princes of Mongolia, but while living, producing countries.
rubber, tea, spice, coffee and tin- on engolian-owned soil they are under Chinese jurisdiction, and where they settle become Chinese] territory
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China's Big Increase, With the exception of China, Japan and the Philippines there The migration is accompanied
was a reduction all along the line many tragedies. Once the railways ed the largest increase in sales to in the import trade. Chiza show- and the free travel are left behind!
the United States while the rubber-
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by
the old begin to perish from the producing countries incurred the hardships of the journey, the trails heaviest losses. Since each For of the newcomers being marked by Eastern country,, however, except thousands of graves of those who Australia, New Zealand, Siam and have given up...
Indo-China, told the United States Many of the migrants find the more than it brought, the combined burden of caring for their children. net balance in their favour aggre especially for the babes in arms, gated 8705,587.000. This was, how too much. Babes are deserted and ever, $231,630,000 less than in 1928. left behind in the larger towns. One labourite way of disposing of
Postion Of Japan. Japan's position among
..the
It was to me that Captain Leslie Hamilton said:
"This is a grim ordeal. It is terrible, terrible.
"I feel like someone starting for the unknown. It is grim, this waiting time.'
Colonel Minchin remained per- fectly calm Captain Hamilton and the Princess showed signs of agitation..
Several times the Archbishop of Cardiff, who had blessed the 'machine, made to move off in the direction of his waiting car, but cach time he was recalled by the Princess, who seized his hand and kissed his episcopat ring repeat- edly.
Once or twice she held his cas sock as if seeking consolation.
**From The Other Blde."
ton of the successful flights of cther When I spoke to Captain Hamil- airren, he smiled at me and repli ed, "Yes; but they came from the other side.".
by the fliers who crossed the Atlan tie from East to West for the first time.
I spoke of the distinction earned
"It will be wonderful if it is a
n baby so that it cannot be over-Oriental countries in connection success," he said, "but ". looked is to wrap it in many folds with American commerce remained of newspapers or rags and drop it
Colonel Minchin was terse.
unchanged. During 107, Japan."I would not start," he said,
Buccess."
"Tell them I am proud of the honour, and I pray that it will be an Englishwoman who will be Erst to cross the Atlantic from this side. I am confident, and I "am unafraid."
"I have confidence in the pilot and in the machine.” "When do you expect to reach Canada I asked her.
on the station platform as the train bought nearly twice as many auto-if I did not think it would be a pulls out.
Not Political.
mobiles and trucks as during the previous year; 43 per cent. more Commenting on this extraordinary raw ection; 23 per cent. "more I asked the Princess for a last migration of Chinese to the porth, gasoline; and increased the value message to the women of England beyond the Great. Wail, to the of iron and steel products 21 per before she set out. She said :- sparsely settled lands along the cent. These advancés also exceed- Mongolian and Manchurian marshes ed smaller reductions in other im the Manchester Guardian saya it portant staples and tended to raise would be easy, though wrong, to the total exports of the United assume that this migration has a States to Japan from 8254,101,000 political complexion and illustrates! to 8207,401,000, an advance of 3 Chinese peasant preference for $13,300,000, or 3.2 per cent. the rule of Marshal Chang Tso Lin,
In 1926-27 total
exports from the United now that north" and "south"
States to China was have become with us synonyms for 8125,652,000,
compared with Chang Tso Lin and the skewbald $110,520,000 or 5 per cent. over the body of the Nationalists. The balk 1926 fiscal period... ́ ́ Cains were of the migration, however, is from noted not only in Hong Kong due one part of Chang Tso Lin's domin to settlement of the blockade din ions to another, from Shantung and culties last October, but in China For three days before the fight | Chihli to the ends of the branch Proper and in Kwangtung as well. the St. Raphael was never outside lines of the Manchurian railways Trade with the Philippines held its shed. and beyond. It would be as mistaken its own well. The Islands bought to attribute this migration to a poii- darte, which, added
70 per cent more automotive pro-
No Preliminary Text. tical preference as to assume that
to general in-
There was no preliminary test the other migration, over the crease in a number of the import light immediately before the start Manchurian frontier into Russian tal United States exports to the
ant commodities, advanced the to- of the great adventure.
by per cent. to
i
"I cannot say," she said. "That is a matter for Colonel Minchin and Captain Hamilton."
Siberia, shows a Chinese preference Philippines.ports also showed liminary testing fight. He simply
866,821,000.
for Russian Communism, &sef an increase of 1.5 per
Manchurian Individualism.
year there is a huge migration of Manila Times. Chineta peasants into Siberia, but
its character is not altogether un-
like that of the Irish hay-makers |
I inquired of Colonel Minchin why he was not going up for a pre- cent.shrugged his shoulders, and repli- el, The machine is in perfect con- dition."
Actually the monoplane lay in a
who used at the appropriate season There is not enough land to go shed on the aerodrome ground antil to find the English countryside.reund, and the result is an annual an hour and a half before the big These Chinese immigrants settle, migration into districts where there fight began.
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"Seven hundred and Afty gal- Indeed, more lens is more than enough for our the official fees for stamping papers remarkable than the migration is the task," said Colonel Minchin, of egress and entry at the frontier. persistence in their homes of those we have enough food supplies for
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end. A fair number of them every year who do not magrate. It would seem the journey and emergency rations go farthest west, even as far as that after sixteen years of civil war in case we have some unexpected Moscow, where they establish than the Chinese have become as in adventure. selves and settle down in laundry different to it as the dwellers on the and similar business.
There was some talk of an escort- slopes of a volcano become to the The whole fair is quite without Imoky threat above their heads. ing plane leading the flyers out to political significance, and neither This is due probably to the size of wards the Atlantic. the doctrine of Lenin, nor the per- the country. Not even the combined last moment, and when the St. This idea was abandoned at the sonality of Chang Tao Lin has any efforts of bandit warlords and thing to do with it. These Chinese squabbling Nationalists can disturb Raphael left are left alone. peasants migrate with the sole it all at once, and the moment the The Princess crept into the in- never rise. For a mile we went on object of earning a "living. The tide of war in any place leaves him terior of the machine.
Colonel in company towards the punkta Manchurian migration is of similar high and dry the Chimese peasant Minchin and Captain Hamilton character, and it has steadily is at work again scratching the climbed into the cockpit. The en-
Then, when it seemed certain that creased with the development of ground round the graves of his gine was raced, and then slowly the the monoplane would crash into the the Manchurian railways. Shantung ancestors and hoped to get his har- St. Raphael crept away into the road she lifted gracefully but ever 'and Chibli 170 overpopulated. vest in before the turmoil comes his wrist.
so slowly it seemed-just in time (Continued on next Column.) way again,
(Continued on next Column.) to clear the road.
Realising that anything might Over towards the west she disap-. happen on the downs, I followed peared to reappear a minute. later, keep up with the big plane, and drome. in's car. At first it was easy to heading back towards, the aero-
it seemed to me that she would
At first we thought that some- thing had gone wrong but later we realised that it was merely a last farewell the aviators were taking of their friends on the ground.
At 7.32 a.m. the St. Raphael dis- appeared completely from our vision, swallowed up in the mists to the west of Upavon.