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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 2nd, 1928.
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE NORTH.
PEKING COUNTRYSIDE PROSPEROUS AND KEEN
FOR DEVELOPMENT..
GOOD ROADS BORN OF MILITARY FANCY. |
[FEOS RODNEY GILBERT.]
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A General Post Office notification, issued on Saturday, sires the fol PEKING, March 10th condition, against a stiff northwest towing particulars with regard The Metropolitan ared has been wind, and at what seemed a leisure- blessed with nearly two years of pace. It was evident, however, to unclaimed correspondence, etc.. peace and with very faiz crops and that in point of cost and time waiting at the Post Office, and the visible results are astonishinging, the motor car now has an also unclaimed radio telegrams at to oue who ventures into the coun-
advantage over the railway on this try over any of the numerous moter
run. The writer came from Tea- roads. Villages, everyutiere appear seven miles of city trafic, and tain to Peking, threaded about, to have been rebuilt. At any rate, roofs have been repaired or renow
reached his own home, a few miles ed and there has been lavish use of west of the city distance of about plaster and white wash, while nu 100 miles-ia 33 hours. This run. bish and unsightly ruins have been the beavy fire passenger car (with cleared away, so that everything carburetter bad adjusted) did on Tooks freth ard now, including the four gallons of gasoline and the wayside temples, in which even the tolls amounted to 84. priests cem to have washed their .faces.
Foste Restante Dorrespondance. George Black, C. A. Calkins, H. H. Arns, Dr. C. A‚‚P. "Bell. Colter, Crossley, Ltd. Mrs. F. E. Cameron, Camera Cift Co., J. L Daff. Daido Life Ins. Co., Mlle. Do-thi-ky, C. H. Edwarda (c/a Crossley, Ltd.), LL. Fun, D. Golf And A Concubine. Fraser, A. M. Goodman, Gurtierrez One thing that our road builders Noma & Co. J. Haywood, S. L. An astonishing proportion of the have learned locally, after about Horrobin, Mrs D. Hills, Mr. L. R rustic population travels by bicycle fifteen years experience, is that Jenson Mr and Mrs. M. M. or rieska over ronds that were im North China neither wants nor can Kollener, W. Killeck, R. Kitain, B passable to anything but the mas afford macadam motor hightays. Krivass, Rev. G. W. Lewis, J. 31. sive mule-cart a few years ago, and Motor traffic, plus the scouring Lizarraga, L. McLean, J. E. Moyle, everywhere one goes, thinking he is winds, will ruin the surface of W. H. Pashley, H. Pampanga, 9. Sping on a motor adventure, he expensive macadam road in a very. Pampangas M. A. Solner, P. encounters motor-bus caravans short time and convert it into a Schule, Walter Smith, Prof. J. W; packed to something more than cobble track over which it is torture N. Smith, Mrs. J. Summers, Sun capacity with self-satisfied farmers to ride at anything but a snail's and Yew, R. Thomson, Mr. and and their familien. The convey-pace. Officialdom simply will not Mts. Turner (c/o Mr. T. M. M. ances look home-made and the pay for proper upkeep, because Turner), JLM. Thening, beces are certainly the fruit of there is no profit in St, so macadam Trembo, I. W. Walman, Enal enterprise, but they run and roads in the Peking area are never Wan Sun, Mrs S. E. Waur do their work Officialdem over-repaired until, by chance, om man Miss E. A Wright, R. D. looks no chance to collect tolls or very high militarist finds reason to Walcott (Associated Press of Ame to tax the receipts of the bus com ran over a particular road frequent rica), B Zipper. punler, go charges must be high, but ly and, finally, in his exasperation. they are nevertheless cultivating a invites the responsible civil taste for motor locomotion in a ties to mend the road or quit. class that used to bargain” vocifer- ously for a lift in a cart costing a lew.coppers.
The famous loop road to th Western Hills was originally buil by a Cabinet Minister who had to Security And Prosperity,
instala concubine in a bill cottage.. These are signs of security and her within the city limits; and the because his wife would not tolerat. prosperity which no argument cadis was never properly done over un robt. It is proof that, however if a modernized militarist took to high the taxes may be, they are playing golf in the hills and found not yet unbearable for, if these the ride to and fro a daily strain Tural communities were ruthlessly tooted, the genuinely poor would on his good temper.. look their part, while those who had money would hide it under a
f
Unpaid Correspondence. Dr. M. H. Kosking, W. B. Long Miss E. Pye.ma (e/o HK Hotel), B. F. Muller,
Registered Articles,
N. Crainicine, G. E. Dares, Glane (c/o Madame Flint), R. 1. Gobaid Ram Katyal & Co. Mons
Mrs. La Lander (c/o Repulse Kitain, B. Krivoss, Lim Kim Chi, Bay Hotel), Madame Maudz (e/c H.K, Hotel), W. W. Murdock (e/o Hong Kong Hotel), Nguyen Dan Nhung Nguyen Van Tri, K, O A. H. Pearson, W. R. Ritchie, Ch. Trim, Leo Johan Thesing, W. H. Winkeimar.
Parcels, Chanh Wing Chen.
Perera,
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Whole Atmosphere Changed. Since he has been here, Chang studied shabirness. One of the ech Tso Lin bus maite no overt attempt tributing features to the present to cultivate the foreigner. If he happy atate is, of course, the al-had, the people would be smirking sence of very large bodies of poorly. at us ingratiatingly. He has shown disciplined troops. The armed raba determination, however, not to be ble happens to bave been employed unfriendly, no matter how he con- elsewhere these wo years, at the sidered himself injured by the lack cost of other districts, and civilians of foreign support, and to be car- ate collecting the much-advertised rectly polite in all circumstances; Address. taxes, which always means in China and this in mentad attitude Chenaztaihong that an opportunity is given for which the people everywhere show Chuutungchang bargaining and compromise within their manner. They are simply Lamcheongyi Chez the tax-collector.
good-tempered and polite unless one Enogtit The
shows an inclination to be overtly Ritchie .... construction of military roads in all directions has, of friendly, when they promptly show Siantan courge, invited the growth of who did not have reason to travel 534
inclination to respond. Persons Percival mercialized motor traffic, but it is just as certain that this latter de-about this countryside two years Tsenznem velopment has also had a righty tremendous change in the whole at-0048 7853
ago can have no idea what a Teaset beneficial effect upon the condition mosphere of Peking this implies
Piffner of the roads. The comparatively wealthy private car owner pays the one that seems to be spreading very
The Peking attitude is, moreover, Scribes comparatively low tolls on atrociously bad road and growls rapidly over China, according to about it, but does not find it worth travellers from all quarters; and while combining with others to en- everywhere for the same reason.
There is a ter a formal complaint. These
general conviction Little bus companies, however, can- abroad that, even while anti-for- not afford to pay lagh tolls and cignisin did not bring upon the taxes on their income for the pr that might have been expected, it
country the disastrous reprisals Popular vilege of having their make shift conveyances shaken to pieces in the netted many losses and no gains. first two or three trips and, since. It promised to yield China a great they now appear to be the most in this respect were nit, while the re- accretion of "face, "The gains in portant patrons of the new govern velations of the fashion in which ment highwaye, they are in a post the one perfect race under heaven tion to insist upon a little service
had been led around by Moscow's isi exchange for taxes... “¿
agenta by the nose and made to go Ronde Better Than Bailways.
through antics that guested all The results are very evident on humanity have entailed a loss of the Peking-Tientain highway, the face which can only be redeemed upkeep of which used to depend by the blood of the unhappy Coza almost entirely on the weather. A muniate, the scapegoats of the few days ago, the writer ran over whole foolish ebullition.--North-- it in a car that was not in perfect | China Daily News,
971
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"BIG SWORD ? MENACE IN MANCHURIA.
POPULAR BELIEF IN THEIR SUPERNATURAL POWERS.
BANANA GROWING IN MANCHURIA
JAPANESE EXPERIMENTS.
MUKDEN, March 18th MUKDEN, March 18th.
Such fruits as bananas and pine- The Big Swords" are hardly apples have so far come from For- suppressed and several nights ago moen or South China, but recently some 20 inmates of a gaol in Beng- the Japanese, in South Manchuria kiang Prefecture broke through the hare been experimenting in banana- gates and made themselves scarce growing, and the first clusters of Most of these were Big Swords" | this fruit raised in Manchuria, are captured in a recent sucounter. How to Port Arthur, in the Later, reinforced by other members. Koyaku Garden. A. banana tree of of the fraternity, they raided the Formosan origin bloesomed towards Prefectural Office and then the Pre- the end of last year in the con- fects's residence, and butchered him. servatory where it had been care The raiders next surprised the fully tended, together with other police station and seized all avail tropical plante Now it bears able arms. The superstitution is about 200 bandana on one stem. getting more and more widespread each of a length of 6 to 8 inches.
the countryside that the Big Stopls are protected by super oral forces, and no one is pay ing any attention to this threats of the authorities. As a matter of fact, in certain districts the latter have entreated the meurgente to lay down their arme, under promise of immunity from prosecution, but
far only a very few have return ed to a peaceful life, the majority appearing to prefer to have it out
to the last.
Compared with bananas raised in Formoss, these Manchurian grown specimens are mid to be very favourably received. It is probable that, experiments along other lines will soon follow--North China Daily News
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