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BRIGANDS BESET KAI FENG STABILISATION OF
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STRANGE TALES OF SMUGGLING AT CHANGTER
VAST PROFITS MADE AT "HEROIN CITY”
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
A strange story of a brigand-ridden district where motor "bimos are hold up at the pistol-point as wers stage solches in the days of British highwayman, and of the vast trade in Heroin going on at Changieh, is contained in this remarkable letter from our Kaifeng correspondent, Changtch has earned the sinister Lilia of Heroin Uity, and its inhabitants are said to consume $10,000 worth of the drug daily. Not tat off, near Phoenix village lata big factory where a Russian is said to be in charge. Ona smuggler ended like Judas Iscariot and an abetting chief of pollès has gone mad. "Arild all the turmoli plans are afoot for reclaiming fooded land and for archeological excavations in this most andisht meal of Chinese civilisation
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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME TABLE.
On and after NOVEMBER 17, 1832, until Further Notics (all previous
Time Tables cancelled),
UP TRAINS
ETATIONS No. No. No. No. No. No. Tr
4. · 10, 10A 8.
No No No. No. No. No. No, 19 AM 14 16 22 18:24.
Kowloon Dep: 6.25 8.168.2720 2.15 10121 12.13 1.30 2.204.35 Yaunati.Dep. 683 Satin...Drp. 0.48 po...Dej 6.59 Taipo Market.
REFERRING to the gold standard at the annual meeting of the National Provincial Bank, to-day, the Chairman, Bir Harry, Goschen, emphasised that although sooner er later the pound must be anchored to a solid foundation, one thing vis certain no more in the direc tion of stabilisation should "be"] #kumohun ... attempted until such safeguards inere devised as would, humanly Canton...... ipeaking, prevent any recurrence
of events of 1931:
Bir H. Goschen gave figures in dicating that the decline in the British export trade had been small compared with that of other coun- tried. The British decline was 0.0 per
per cent, 3.
Fanling Dep 7.15 Shengshui...
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.8.24 10.1211.41/12,49| 1.27) .. 9.36 163)||1.68) 12.33 1.39) (.. 8.50 10.4412.06 12.66 1.03)...
5.326.48 8.19
11. 8.83 108012.18 12.40 1,587..
8,49 6.87 8,29 10.08 1.01 12.32 13.59 2.00... Dep. 7.20
9:14 9.43 10.11|11,06|1237], 104] 22) | 250. 5477,05 2,34 Arr 7.26 8.53 0.20 0.48 10.17) 11:1518,48|| 130 2.17 8.05 5.13 5.58 7.06 8.40
(11.30)
5.80 +
DOWN TRAINS"
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No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 7 IF 16 917 Now] 19 13
STATIONS
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Sharnchen..... Sheangahul Fasilagr
Taipo Market..... Dep. Taipo
Kaifeng, January 13. The big Hospital in the South
We have bad two very fine, fall cent., American 3,7-per cont., Ger- Canton.Dep. Suburb run by the China Inland of snow, Snow before Chinese Newny 41 per cent, and France 31 Mission often has some suspicious Year is always regarded se propi
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on page 9). characters in as wounded patiente. tious. For the present it means Only on occasions man, these men be genuine winter weather, for the definitely ticked off as Brigands future, prospects for good crops. One man carried in badly burned, The principle of the combine is and who died a few days later, guiting adherents. We have long eleverly covered his story in such and had Bricklayers and Masons way that they did not know whe and other wages raped by Unions, ther he was a bandit suffering for Now the coal merchants, and brick his erimes or suffering from the makers are pulling together for treatment of bandite.
fixed and uniform prices.
the city of Tongkwax This long run is accomplished in twenty-five and a half hours For two years and three months we have had freo. dom from civil war in-this region, and sa usual when peace prevails, progress is made. This Langhai Railway has got on to its Beet and is providing a Ane service for the pablo.
The Smugglers Tate, a
A story of smuggling Narcotics that had appalling consequences has beam told, me. The smuggler was in with the pollos guard on this railway, and the chief always was
A few days ago four armed men
Sports Stadium Completed. attempted to kidnap four sons of
At cost of some tens of thou- A well to do man. To keep down. expenses the four rented small sands of dollars the sports stadium place close by the YM.C.A. reside completed and a big North ence and attended St. Andrew's Chins Gathering of Athletes has
taken place, Mar School. The four bandite came
Strast widening “continues," the from the lads' home district, dis tant from here ifteen miles, Meet-new and improved shop fronte and ing with resistance from the isds, the much greater width of the thuy-naed their arms and thos, one akroots, makes an langsing, didar" "well paid for his sheltering cars. son. He died in hospital abontende thirty hours later. One report saya thas the four Brigands were tracked down and caught.
Just two miles out an Evangelist cycling back to Kaifeng-was-stop- ped at the point of a revolver, having no money, the rider was obliged to hand over his bike to the robber and see him ride off
Motor 'Buses Held Up.
A public motor 'bus was held up a few days ago and $2,000 taken from the passengers. Further west nbus reached the top of a hill, below them the vocupants saw the villages in flames and the villagers. running for their lives. The bus turned round and, escaped by two hr Fards" 10 galloping Brigands who tried to converge on them and cut off the retreat, the pas sengers begged the English pasien- ger to lid down out of sight suggest- ing that if he were seen the bandits would not quickly give up the chase, The 'bus held together and outdis- tanced the outlaws. The collapse of these 'buses is not infrequent. A friend writing back from Sian told of the steering geer breaking,. and a wheel leaving the axle for a jaunt on its on account. Bian & Hot Dorner. Speaking of Sian reminds me that the American Consul stayed there two months, that is until he saw, tried, and saw executed the man who gave orders for the killing of Mesars. Ekvall, Tornvall, Mr. Wang and a Japanese subject. Those who carried out the orders seem still to be at large. Sian bad a narrow escape from the Reds at least reaching its city walls. At the skine time seven avowed Commu nists were shot inside the city, so it da possible that at least some. uprising might have been in readi ness had the advancing Commuists gos to the walls to get
Things seem to have got too hot in the south of Honsa and north Hupeh for this “* Red !! army, they mados rapid muachsoron the souts and or LEKOPOTENCE, some ham'in sich “providce placos
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Some, fine motor, cara now? The thing grow till on and joursay Brace these widened and surfaced it transpired that the amnggher lind roads, we know at least one-new a very large and valuable amount model night cylinder Ford, and of drug. The chief of police's cupi- luxurious 6 horse power Vauxhall.uity was so stirred up that in the Dr. Brown came and departed by plot he formed to get possession of aeroplane, looking into Famine it all, The smuggler's fear was Relief matters, Bir, John Hope worked upon till he took the hint Simpson is expected on a similar errand early in February
Trains and Paste.
It is delightful to have a through express train from Suchowfu to the extreme west of the province, ta
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and got off the train. Everything lost, in despair he hanged himself: on a tree near the railway line. The chief conspirator tried to make light of it bus in vain. Soon he went insane and there were, only two sentenced he could repeaty These he used to say over during most of his waking hours, "Not finished" "khd. “I'll go to court."
He died without regaining his sonses. The Chinese possess thon sands of proverbs, they have this one now in their own language." He that is groedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live."!
Heroin City.
It seems an exaggeratnon but I have, heard that the city of Chang- teh in the province consumes about $10,000 worth of heroin daily, and has been nicknamed the Heroin City. Further wost at Phoenix village heroin pills of varlons coloured coatings and named Phoe nix eggs are turned out, and most ly sold into Shanai, ae that pro- vince adjoins the village. Agsin, surely an exaggeration, the turn oyer is reported to be three million dottare over period of some months. Further south near an im- portarit mining centre there is asid
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against the troops, one -being decimated.
Hies of a fortress, a Russian expert being in charge, and the takings. 38.000 daily, No one below the rank of a Brigadier can gain access to the place
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Many of the portal that evacuated Mohuri postal matters became tangled, came to this – province, other plans to employ, thee open another branch office înside the city here. Now numbers of them are accepting a lump sum, and aro departing the postal service and Honan province at one and the same time,
Ancient Chins
Plana are in the air for deve- loping and improving the large Acerage, mostly under water, that
adjadent the old Song:
Palace.
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10.56 13.28 3.81 4,15 4,61 6.38 8.10|| 11.00 125 2.58 4.70 4.45 8,45 | 6.35 11.10 12.30 200 481 4.55 601 635 11.14 12.4 8,11) 4,85) 5,00, 5.09 | 6,40 11.28 19.58 8.25 4.80 6,14 6.27 0.58 11.41 1.19 8.87 5.04 6.26 6.42 7.05
7.308.18
Shatin....Dop 7.438.30 Yszmati.............Dep. | 7.36) 8,43| Kowloon Arr: 8.02 8.49 11.08 11.47 1.18 848 8.10 532 8.48
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