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MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN HANKOW.
STREETS CLEANER, PUBLIC SERVICES AND POLICE WELL,"MAINTAINED,
CHINESE - AUTHORITIES ANXIOUS TO MAKE GOOD.
With the approaching: annual | collect a fair share of taxes from Ratepayers Meeting in Hankow, the Chinese, and, bwing to the lax set for March 31st, a number of government of months past and to interesting points can be raised re- the paper currency fiasco, the debts garding present conditions in the of 1927 are not the ratepayers Special Administrative District No. responsibility. 3, or the former British Concession. Reliable information during the past few days shows that there has been considerable exaggeration, hithert, in the necounts which have altered into Shanghai about Han kow, and which have been profuse in disgusted comment about the condition of the Hankow Bund and of the way things in general nee being ran
CHA
MOTOR MY
FRIEND PASS ED OFF AS VICTIM OF CRASH.
BODY: DUMPED IN A POND.
PEKING, MArch Oth
A double inquest on the corpse of a man found floating on the Tal Ping Hu pond behind the Min Kno University, and the subsequent dis
covery
of a shoe which turned out
to be the mms one mining from the right food of the dead man, led
to the apprehension on Thursday night of a man suspected of the crime. The body has been identified as that of a messenger boy of the Sino-American Bank of Commerce! pain Peking.
All this will, of course, be thrash ed out at the Ratepayers Meeting this month. As is quite generally known, the Budget for 1992 did not balance and approximately Tis 30,000 in debts had to be carried over for the 1828 Budget. A three months loan from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from January to March 31st, was negotiated to carry og, and expenses for essential services, were met through this loan. Following the Ratepayers' Meeting collection of taxes can be instituted and the loan
Fo, at about seven o'clock on Tues. According to the Shan Tien Shik
day afternoon, a motor car ac cupied by the anele of a promizent Chinese banker here ran down a bicycle rider in front of Pao Wang
tung through the negligence of the driver, and fatally wounded him. The car was stopped by the policeman on duty, who requested the occupant to go to the nearest police station.
Credit To Dr. Chang. For the past five months & de finite change has been marked in the Chinese Administrative policy, responsible for conditions there Outward appearances and inward administration have shown improve ment. In this connection, much of the credit goes to the Director of the S.A.D. 3, Dr. L. N. Chang, who bas been building up a permanent staff during the months of his offer and through whose efforts much of the existing good will between Chias harassed with changing troops man to the German hospital so that who occupied Chinese, and, in some he might receive proper medical nese and foreigners working to gether in the Administration has instances, foreign properties, all the treatment.
while using the lights and water The chauffeur with his assistant been made possible,
of the municipality without paying accordingly carried the rider into for them, and paring no taxes. the car and drove in the direction Failure to collect taxes from the of the Legation Quarter, but while Chinese property-owners, whose till on the way to the German soldiers, added to the general crime, the chauffeur decided to con- premises were occupied by these hospital the man expired. Appar
ently fearing punishment for his financial havoc. Moreover, the incest the body. He drove to the Tai formation points out further, a Ping Hu poad in the south city and threw the corpse into the water. sharp decline in revenue from motor. car and other vehicles' licences con-
Why Revenue Fall Of. The failure to balance the 1927 Budget is given as primarily, lack Chinese appointed to handle the dis of experience on the part of the
The owner titan gave his nans tribation of municipal finances. A and revealed his connection with serions loss of revenue resulted the prominent banker. He ordered during that period when Hankow the chauffeur to rush the injured
Changes in the Administration, with resultant waste of energies are described as the principal reason for complaints which had their foundation in fact. One of the most frequent directed against the autho- rities, has been condition of the streets of Hankow. In all "fairness, our information
points out, it should be brought to mind that before the Chen O'Malley Agreement, a new sewage system was installed for the British Concession, and work in this dires tion necessitated tearing up the streets and a subsequent period when the surface had to be allowed to settle before re-surfacing might
take place. This was a purely
fributed a share. The Chinese
bred budget failed to take into consideration re-furnishing and re- equipment expenses, the results of looting and demolition Re-equip ment of the police force should be mentioned as one of these considers
tions.
Naturally, the 1928 Budget will call for allotments in these connee tions, and the present feeling on the part of practically all rate payers is that this expenditure should be made payable against the Nationalist Government.
Dressed Up As Injured Man. who halted the car had been wait In the meantime the policeman the the home of the employer of the chauffeur for his return so that he might have a report on the con dition of the injured manat about 11 o'clock a man whose head was beavily bandaged turned up and said he had been injured in the
motor cam recident, in the after noon. He said he had received
adequate treatineat and that as his injuries were not
*serious, he want- for enough money to cover medical ed a private settlement and maced expenses. It was later found that this man was a friend of the chauf feur, who did not return that night.
technical matter and 18 months were required before the final re pairs could be gone into. Even sup- posing that funds had been avail able for completion of this work,
On Wednesday morning, the corpse of the dead messenger boy it would have been impossible from
was discovered. The judicial au Although under the new statuthorities were duly informed and a technical standpoint. The past Chinese are beginning to come into soon three official were on the five months have shown that the the ex-British Concession, where scene to hold an inquest. The Chinese authorities realize that the they can now purchase property, verdict returned was that death entire responsibility now resides in the majority of ratepayers are still was the result of violence. A police them, as an instance of which it foreignere in the S.A.D. 3, an area, missing from the foot of the dead officer reported that one shoe was might be pointed out that under the it might be added, which approximan, terms of the Chen-O'Malley Agree-mates to the Shanghai Race Course
in size,
ment there are four Chinese and three British on the Council.
The Bund in the ex-British Con
cession, which had become an eye sore, Eng been cleared up, there
Foreign Confidence Reviving, The Administration in this dis trict shows none of the diversities and complexities of, for example,
Subsequently the police found the missing shoe of the dead man..
Suspecting that there was some. four play in the whole case, Ger. eral Chen Hsin Yab, Chief of Police, ordered a second quest an opened in the presence of a large Thursday afternoon. The coffin was
in Shang-crowd of Chinese spectators, and
found to correspond exactly with was put on his right foot, it was that worn by the other foot. This
fore, under, the new policy, and municipistration canized when the shoe found by the police
grass plots have been surrounded with fences and large privet hedges planted to aid in regaining the old sightliness. The continuance of this beautifying work should result in a neater and more rightly Band that existed even before the Concession
was handed over to the Chiness.
p
hai, and
Public Works Department, such as exists at present, in Hankow and & competent police force, which has grown incrasingly efficient during recent months, the chief question outstanding is interest payment on municipal debentures.
Responsibility for Debentures. Fessimists among the ratepayers A question dwelt upon by every of the District are inclined to be former rendent of Hankow is that lieve that ultimately it will be the of intercat on debentures of the old ratepayers who bear this additional Hankow Municipal Council. It is burden, also, but the general feel- stated on good authority that the ing is one of disclaiming respon non-payment of interest on debensibility for 1977, checking up the tures is receiving the serious atten- budget deficit-against the Nation tion of the Nationaljat Government, alist authorities and extending the who are awake at the present time hand of co-operation
tion.
to the loss of face which this de- In conclusion our information: fault entails on their administra states, that foreign raetpayers in the District are already accepting The average ratepayer in Hankow the situation.ar one on the ap-grade takes the attitude that, owing to the towards permanent improvement Nationalist Government's Laine to | Nocth-China Daily News.
once auttled the mystery and an order was immediately issued for the apprehension of the missing chaufeur wich was effected at Changhsintien-no Wen.
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