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No. 23293.
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LIFE UP COUNTRY IN
SHANSI
Robbers, Bad Roads and Crop Failure's
Travelling By Moke Express
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Fengsiang, Shansi,
Famine!
i
A Bandit Bald.
caallong Daily
Shumer
1933. 式拜禮 日捌月叁叁佰玖仟壹英 Price.
JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE
NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL
"
SENT TO GENEVA
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY)
TOKYO, March 27. THE Govermaent have cabled to
Geneva
notification of
Дом
Japan's withdrawal from. the League of Nations.
Notice to be Cabled.
TOKYO, March 27. Notification of Japan's with- drawal from the League was ap- proved by the Privy Council this morning.
The Premier. Count Saito, ie scheduled to proceed to the Palace at 3 p.m. to obtain the imperist, sanction, after which the notice of withdrawal will be cabled te Geneva.
The text is being despatched to all Japanese Embassies abroad,
arms to the robbers, a method of proceedure quite customary. In these incidents usually occurred view of this, and of the fact that' late in the afternoon, we decided to spend the night there and start early the next morning.
money either to appease immediate January 30th. hunger or to enable them to migrate China continues to be a land of to districts where food is more easy anomolies. Destruction, obstruction obtainable and at the same time and construction still go on at the avoid the taxation still being merci same time. The railway connectionlessly levied. I scarcely need inen- between Shanghai and Shenai has tion the prevalence of banditry, heen so speeded up that our journey aggravated no doubt by largo num up-country was the quickest, we bers of desperately hungry men. have ever done. Even so, on ar- Peaceable citizens who have spent riving at the entrance to the much time and energy irrigating tunnel into the hills at Linpao, in some portion of their land and so Honan, the train stopped, u com managed to raise a small crop of pany of Chinese alighted casually maize had it nearly all stolen in a and inspected what stone records night or two by bands of robbers. were to be seen there concerning The roads are scarcely safe by day the old philosopher Lao-Tze who and much less so by night for any is said to have written this famous ons with decent clothes and a dollar classio on Virtue The Tao Teh or two on their person.. King, near that spot. Two veneri ablo passengers were particularly
One great objection to this travel- interested, they had formerly oc-
At Langtien, the night following ling by motor is the extra expense upied important positions in Pei-a missionary gathering, a number involved compared with the : old ping, hut meteors are common and of bandits raided the place and car- fashioned cart travelling, but that eclipses frequent in the political ried off ton men as well as food and
method is almost put of the ques sky of this celestial land,
bedding. Four of these were relcastion these days, for even if you od almost immediately as not being could find a decent one it is ques worth keeping, the other six were tionable whether the owner would On arriving at Fengsiang wo were
taken away to a place in the north be willing to take the risk of going soon busy. settling into home andern hills, and held for ransom. A through the robber infested areas, work. From then on the vicis easy asemin rico was demand not to mention the far greater risk situdes of life and the axigenciesaven a small amount the captives and having to spend several nights ed but before friends could send we should incur travelling so slowly of work may be compared to becoming desperate saw a chance panorama or a mosaic. At any rate of escape. The armed guard one
on the way, Oh, for the good old- I can honestly say the bit of road
day's! we have had to travel along this evening mysteriously went off lear year has been about the hardest in the captives in charge of an old man- Two of the prisoners yet experienced. How little had wo
Thero is not much danger of life dreamed of having to face again so
were chained together while the
here becoming too monotonous BOOn the famine spectre stalking securely behind their backs. One
others had their hands fastened either, for ourselves or our helpers, through the land. Owing to a very
na when recently my wife went sud- late and exceptionally severe frost.
of the men managed to break the denly into the kitchen just when last Spring the wheat was ruined to make the attempt. Alas, two of one hand and cooking spoon in the chain by twisting and they ventured the poor cook with frying pan, în over a very wide area and, this was followed by prolonged drought
the older onea already weakened by other and mouth wide open was We had not been back long when when they stumbled on the side of flavour of the dish he was. prepar- hunger and cold had not gone far just in the act or sampling the we paid a visit to Meihsien, calling at the Ch'i-san and Te'ai-chia-po life was not extinct when they were contents of the spoon into the open a hill and fell to the bottom but ing. In his dilemma he popped the outstations. The journey, waer most trying for the heat was intense und
discovered and beaten to death. A mouth, but had not bargained for the animals cruelly slow. The
third was recaptured and badly the heat of same which evidently carter was a mere lad, the lead-another opportunity of escape as
henten but not long afterwards got set, his tongue performing ing donkey was a disgrace to his the bandits moved away owing to
maximum number of revolutions in ancestors and the mule in the shifts the approach of soldiers. I hear he temporary
a minimum of time and cnused a was far from being "a going con-
impediment in his cern." I am convinced Noch would was more like a dying man than a speech. nover have accepted them as candi- home. Two of the younger men had living one when he finally reached dates for the ark, neither can I imagine them over attempting to managed to evade being recaptured. sing forward bo our watchword," they could not honestly have done
it.
Crossing a River,
At the above mentioned places, we used to live like doves in lofts of rented premises. It is genuine eauso for thankfulness that neither of us broke our necks during the
The Red" Armies. We had not long returned to Fengsieng and got settled into work again when rumours became Hupeh and Honan advancing into fife of the "Red" armies from Shenai-You-might-do-nothing else- cut here but sit down and listen to exaggerated rumours if you felt process of ascending and descend- and went on with our work. An so inclined so we hoped for the best ing The I-men-chon house was looted and burned down at the 1911 Sian in. connection with the brutal Acting American Consul was in revolution and later the Ch'i-san murder of Messrs. Tagavall and premises became absolutely unten- Ekvall. Fearing the "Red" amics able as a residence during the pro-might break through on to the longed occupation and wanton de- struction of the town by bandits. Sian plain, and possibly make the Shortly after returning from Mei- roads to Sian impassable, he ad- hsion, I went for the week-end place while the roads were open.
vised us to withdraw to the latter travelling by moke-express. I no- tice the difference between a motor and a moko is that with the motor you have to sarry your own spirit and put it in as required while the moke carries his own spirit and all you have to do is to get as much ont of him as you need. I left very early on the Monday morning to return to Fongsiang and soou reach ed the Woi River which I essayed. to cross on a, Man's back. Alas,
A Cook's Tragedy!
DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS
TO-DAY "(March 28)
Lla
III. Moon 3rd. Day) Furniturs, No. 9, Humphreys Lammert's Sale of Household
Building, 10.00 a.m.
F. A. Mackintosh, Subject, “Club"
Rotary Club Tiffin, Speaker: Mr.
Service."
Kowloon Union Church Young People's Society, magazine night, 8.45 p.m.
H
Theatres.
Queen's: "Prosperity." King's Horse Feathers" Central: "Mayor's Nest.". World: "Speak Easily.". Oriental: The Painted Desert.” Star: "When a feller. needs a friend".
seemed only right to go, but I'm In the light of such advice it afraid it was with much condensed chagrin that once again we took a hurried departure froin home and work One contingent of the the plain not many miles from "Reds "had broken through on to
victory, over the Provincial soldiers ing; King's Restaurant; and Hong Sian, and bad obtained a decided by attacking them at night; flash-Kong Hotel. lights in one hand and pistols or
Dances.
Tea Dances at Gloucester Build-
Dinner Dances at Hong Kong
Peninsula Hotel
after going some distance herevolvers in the other. They had Hotel: King's Restaurant; end
stumbled into quicksand or qua mire and I was precipitated into the same composition.
By a de-
Cholera.
evidently taken a hint out of Gideon's notebook,
Robbers and Soldiers.
and
sperute. effort we managed to ex-
cinta, murales aules on firmer ground but it was a queer waited there some weaks, like, two sensation of which I never want a
caged birds or a couple of Micaw accond edition. G
borz, then the clouds lifted some- what and we decided to leave. We hered motor truck and hoped to Cholors has been raging in this ranch Fengeiang in the day but wa distachy did it was noticeable that only managed to get to Wukung the majority of fatal cases seemed about half way. On reaching Wu to be among the women while in kung we were told that only two typhus it was apparently among the days before some cars of military men. The cholera passed but the olothing had been held up by the famine conditions, continue. Many bandita on the Langtion section of villages have been largely deserted.tho road. The military escort had Numbers of people have pulled fired off all their ammunition and down their house to sell the then had to hand over their Bro wooden fromY
for 1
(Continued oneskonium
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