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COMMUNISTS DES ROBBER ATTACKS SAMPAN TAXATION OF TOBACCO.
PEKING'S HOPES OF REVIVAL.
RÜMOURS OF BECOMING CAPITAL ONCE MORE.
BANKRUPTCY INVADES THE OLD CITY.
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TROY VILLAGES.
5,000 KILLED IN »HONAN.
DISBANDED SOLDIERS' NEW ACTIVITIES.
WOMAN,
INCIDENT INSIDE YAUMATI. SHELTER
GOVERNMENT AMENDMENT.
RAW MATERIAL AND NOT FINISHED PRODUCT.
How a robber, armed with a big piece of wood, attacked a sampao H.E. The Governor, acting with woman and robbed her of clothes the advice and consent of the Legis- Peping, February 11th (UP) and jewellery, was reported to thelative Council, bab signed an The destruction of several hundred Police by the victim.
Ordinance to amend the law villages in southern Homan by Ho Kong, the mistress of the relating to the taxation of tobacco, disbanded soldiers taken over sampan was, she said, asleep early The order is to come into force and directed by a few Communist yesterday morning with her daugh-immediately but will in due course lenders, news of which has just now
ter on board their boat, which was be introduced into the Legislative how slowly new, travels in China. launch inside the Yaumati Typhoon reached Peping, illustrates forcibly tied up alongside a disinfecting Council.
The main object of the Ordinance Although this band bas been Shelter. It would appear that the is to adopt in the case of tobacco ravaging Honan for several weeks, robber first cut the line and towed manufactured in Hong Kong the the newspapers in the larger cities the ampan gently toward the principle of taxation at the source. of Chips have not been aware of northern entrance. Both mother It is on this principle that the its activities, which, are estimated and daughter were still asleep. Many
to have caused 3,000 deaths.
duty is collected in Great Britain When the boat was clear of the At the same time," a small raid
on tobacco manufactured there. in which only 300 persons took part, shelter, Ho Kong heard someone Henceforward, therefore, tobacco which occurred only 35 miles from climb on board her boat. Then she will no longer be manufactured in Shanghai, publicity in the newspapers of given extensive
saw a man standing amidship, a big bond but there will be a fat rate China and foreign countries.
piece of wood in his hand. He on the imported raw leaf used in advanced toward the terrified womanufacture. The same rule of a man, tapped her warningly on the flat rate is introduced in the case bead with his club and told to hold of all manufactured tobacco im- her tongue if she yälued ber lifa..
Peking, January 31st:-Every few weeks it is. circumstantially reported in the native press here that some infuential person groap of persons in Naoking is in favour of restablishing the capital in Peking, and there is of course persistent local propagands in favour of such a removal, but it is impossible to determine the worth of these rumours or to separate the
fact. Prepaganda from Chinese who ought to know what is under discussion in Nanking are beth" sceptical and cynical. Some any that these reports are designed to keep up heart in the commercial community and to postpone the complete collapse of trade. Others say that the stories are circulated by influential property holders here who are trying to sell out. Still others say that these rumours are
The visitor then helped himself to set afont by official land speculators
all he could find, which included Remnants of Two Armies. in Nanking, who endorse the idea
According of a removal to Peking when they
eight pieces of the lady's and her to reliable foreign want to buy property in Nanking, reports, the Communist leaders took daughter's best clothes from their
It has proved, in practice, im- and publicly repudiate the idea over the remnants of the armies of scanty wardrobe. Not satisfied with possible to control adequately the when they want to sell. Others Generals Fan Chung Hsiu and Yuch this the thief then stripped Honumerous factories, many of them again believe that Peking will once Wei Chun, umbering about 10,000 more be the capital but insist that men. These soldiers had been lett Kong of money and jewellery to officialdom's return will be post-leader-less, with no way of sup-the valued of 334.30. poned until all hope is dead here, porting themselves except rob. Without a word the man slipped until property values are at the bera. They have shown a wanton into a little dinghy, and was 6007 lowest possible ebb, and then until cruelty almost incredible, the Nationalists at whose jastiga- tion the move will be made have bought up everything that is for sale as famine prices, after which the return will be abruptly an nounced.
The Honan air involved 10,000 forcer soldiers, brought together by a few unprincipled Communist leaders who directed one at the bloodiest campaigns in the, long history of such incidents in Chinese chronicles.
lost to sight in the darkness.
During all this time, the young maid slept peacefully,
BAIL OF $10,000 AND $5,000.
parted, in place of the present system of division into numerous classes according to value for the purposes of taxation.
working on a small scade, which, receive raw leaf and pay duty.only on Buch of their manufactured products as they declare for local consumption.
It has also praved extremely difficult to assign to their proper classes the numerous brands of cigar and cigarettes which are now on the market here.
The leaders of the band openly declared themselves with a mission to overthrow the existing order, The centre of their operations was the Chengang, Lo-ahan and Kuan- shan districts of southern Honan, densely populated, with small vil- testion. They descended upon these Jages which have no means of pro-
There is also the problem of the villages one after another, wanton-
cigarette deliberately sold at a loss could not carry away, and made the
to villages they visited entirely u.
establish a new brand inhabitable. Eye-witnesses Lasert
There are also frequent altera- that hundreds of villages in thes: during a raid at Hunghom by tions in the quality of the goods districts are completely deserted, Revenue Officers were before Mr sold, without a corresponding al- The band worked itself into frenzy, and harmless old people and Wynne-Jones yesterday at Kowloonteration in the price. young children were not spared. Magistracy. A die, apparently for The villagers fed in a mass before the advancing raiders, but were often overtaken and massacred.
Three Chinese Who were arrested
Once the manufacturer has to pay
the purpose of printing false opeum duty on his raw material as soon labels, and 207 false labels were as he imports it or draws it from
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Obvious Arguments.. Excellent arguments are adduced for the re-establishment of Govern ment here and they are so obviously destroyed and burned what they FALSE OPIUM LABELS CASE, in order to kill competition or". that they scarcely need to be re Fiowed. Peking has all the equip ment of a big administrative centre that Nanking lacks officers, re- sidences, hotels, schools, restaurants and the like while all that is adequate in Nanking is space. The building of an adequate capital at Nanking, would require millions of dollars and a number of years during which time all officials high #nough in rank to be masters of their own time and movements almost as bad, in several districts and asked for world inevitably be more in Shang of Shantung, Honan, Sheusi and hai than in the capital. Also Na
Kansu. Consular reports received remand. 30 European Artistes king is vulnerable.
It was possible that must be concurrently introduced, that chose to revert to the gunboat bandits, who are often former the Crown Solicitor was now going
Ang Power by the Legations here state that committal would be asked for and and this will be done by regulations made under the appropriate Ordi- Performing
policy in a season of exasperation soldiers, are killing and robbing by could reduce the capital to terms-wholesale in all of these provinces.into the case. The prosecution op or alternatively to ashes in half an These conditions are declared by posed bail and remarked that the
Drawbacks will be paid according hour. Further than this the Na competent observers to be the result least that the Crown would accept pound or fraction (not less than a to the following, scale "upon every tionalist Government is essentially of intolerable economic conditions, a southern Government and ought the natural consequence of maus to be able to hold the south loyal years of continous civil wars and
would be $10,000 in the case of hundredth) of a pound of tobacco by moral suasion, but because it is the break-down of any
one of the defendants and $5,000 manufactured in the Colony, upon southern Government it enjoys
central each for the oths. The defen
which the proper duties have been neither the good will nor the loyalty
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provinces, bandits are, robbing and informed of the bail asked for by paid, when the tobacco is exported, torturing, even the famine-sufferers, the prosecution.
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ANTI-JAPAN FEVER IN
SUCHIEN.
THREATS.
The ranks of Shanghai's indigent foreigners continue to be swelled by the indux of little bands of The proprietor of a Shanghai White Russians, most of them: Peking Fading Away, Dawnshop was charged in the from Harbin and other cities in Meanwhile Peking is fading Provisional Court with exposing Manchuria. A smaller but equally away. At the end of each month for sale. at his shop a bullet-proof steady stream keeps towing in the police reports show that, while vest, without a license and con- from Nanking and other cities of a few score new shops have opened trary to the unna of the by-laws China proper where the Nation- here, a few hundred more have This was the first such case to bealist troops, after conquering the cised, some hundreds of familes brought to the attention of the northern war lords, imprisoned SMALL BOYS MAKE VERY BIG have moved away and that the Court.
hundreds of White Russians, number of destitute persons han Mr. King S. Kurs, Assistant Pro soldiers of fortune, who bad served increased by some thousands. One secuting Solicitor said that, during the late Marshal Chang Tso Lin, does not have to read statistics to October last year, a notice was in overlord of the Three Eastern Fro Suchien, January 29:-Suchien is note this decline. The people inserted in the press that shops invinces, or General Chang Tsung having a spell of anti-Japan fever the streets are shahby. One rarely tending to sell bullet proof vesta Chang, exiled Tupan of Shantung and life-size pictures on cloth are sets a man dressed in silks. Motor must first obtain a licence from the Province. car traffic on the big highways is Council, Accused failed to do this. so reduced that the heart of the city
Most of the renegades are in" being put up by young mer. One now enjoys a Sabbatical calm he saw exposed for sale a bulletprincament in Chinese military
P. S. Myerscough said that when sorry plight after months of im- is a figure of a Japanese standing on the body of a Chinese; he holds Thousands of houses are empty and proof vest he asked what it was camps. Poorly clothed, ill fed and whole rows of small shops are there for and was told that it was penniless, they are thrown on the
a pistol, and the Chinese is portray- boarded up. As business declines, for sale for 85. Accused said the mercy of Shanghai's two Russian ed with blood spurting from kis local revenues also go down and the vest had been pledged during benevolent organizations, whose mouth. Another, posted in the big pravincial authorities invent and February and, as it had not been announce new taxes every few weeks redeemed, he was offering it for sale which of course hasten the day in the ordinary way. Witness took when the big shops will declare the vest to the station and informed themselves insolvent. The Peking accused that he would be summon Mukden railway, or rather the d. militarists who impose transit
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slim finances already are heavily street for a while, only showed a overtaxed but always are willing- hand and arm killing a Chinese.
y expanded to take in jobless and starving White Bussian exiles.
One cannot say if it is incidental, but the city urchins have taken up Army Instructora. Estimates Mr. Kun said that the Council
of military officers the cry:-"Strike down the fot- taxes, threaten to impose a tax of considered that the same preesu. place the total number of Russians eign devil!" 100 per cent. on freight charges. tions should be taken in the sale who have thus passed through their "For a week or so, the street bas The local merchants promise that of bullet-proof vests as in the sale hands in the neighbourhood of if this becomes effective 25 per cent. of firearms. The police would be 3.000. The northern militarists been lined with stands selling of the surviving business concerne greatly handicapped if robbers, Russian detachments are said to Japanese goods at reduced prices, here will be bankrupt at Chinese kidnappers and the like made it a have numbered twice that number and report has it that this is only New Year. The whole Mongol practice of wearing these vesta. at one time but most of the men
to be allowed to the end of the frontier has been devoured by Solicitor for accused said that his were disbanded in 1997, following year, after which time these goods hordes of bandits and unattached client received the vest in pawn be Chinese superiors and the Russian diangreement. between their soldiery who are said to number fore the notilation was issued.
will be contraband. The people do 300,000 armed men.
The trouble, arose The Court found accused guilty officers.
not seem to take much interent in and fined him 315. The steel vest non-payment of wages, an old com was confiscated
plaint of those who served China's it all. The opinion of many is that now, deposed warlords
"it is a great pity goods that are Of the Russian captured pri- both cheap and good, éznnot be
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Banditry is now a futile occupa- tion in Suiyoan and Chahar and the hordes are descending into the plain with ever increasing boldness and holding up even bus traffic on the roads about Peking. There have never been so many camels in Peking in the memory of the oldest resident and they are not the jaded, stunted beasts of burden that usual
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including even the white camels from Alashan that took Marce Polo's fancy, driven in here by the banditry that has suspended all ly bring lime and coal in from the normal trade on the Mongol border. kilne, but fine bg caravan beasts, Mr. RODNEY GILBERT in N.-O. and aro serving the Chinese in the (Continued at fool of next column.) | Daily News,
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