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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1933
SZECHUAN ́ ́REDS” DEFY
GOVERNMENT TROOPS
Forced LEVIES ON CIVILIANS BY BOTH SIDES
NEW MOTOR ROAD FROM CHUNGKING TO CHENGTU
(From Our Own Correspondent,)
Cursore, Szechuan,
the marches among the aboriginal tribea This colonization was car March 5.
red on very thoroughly and scien The advance of the Communist armies in the North-East of the tifically during the later Ch'in times (eighteenth century) and the province has been checked but the
descendants of the Chinese colonists invaders have not been driven back.
are still to be found today in a They still hold Tong-kiang and
closely compacted area surrounded Pachow and the country around
by non-Chinese tribes in friendly those places. The full strength of
relations. Mr. Edgar has spent the 9th any is pitted against them and Marshal Tien Song Iao nearly forty years making an inten siva study of the Tibetans and bag his headquarters at Paoning aboriginal tribes along this border. Yet they do not seem able to dis- There is no greater authority odge the invaders. Both sides than he on the geography and an seem to be in financial difficulties.thropology of this people. He has contributor, many results of his researches to the Journals of the We China Border Research Society which, if collected, would make a volume of invaluable information.
On the one hand the "Reds" have no money or ammunition, it is re- ported. On the other hand a message to Chengtu from the 29th army say that unless more money. is forthcoming they cannot carry on the campaign. This is a very common form of blackmail and has became a regular method of extract- ing money from the people. Seeing. that they have already paid their taxes up to and including the 47th
Sear
of the Republic (1958) in ad- vouce, it is not to be wondered that thero is considerable demur at be. an extra levy ing made to pay now. Nevertheless, demur or no, Cho money is to be forced from them and some householders are being inado to pay several hundred dollars in a lump sum to support the warring army.
Missionaries. Leave N.E.
Szechuan.
The C.I.M. missionaries who have had to evacuate the stations in N.E. Szechuan are now in Chengtu or other towns in the vicinity. They had a difficult journey from the north to here, Some of them havo (cet all their possessions and they all had to walk for several days before they could rest in safety or get any conveyance to carry them. The Mission Premises at Pachow have been taken over as the military headquarters of the Soviet there.
Red Atrocities.
There are harrowing stories of the èruelties of the "Reds" there. Properties have been seized and many large residences have been burned down. All title deeds that can be found are at once destroyed and the property re-distributed. No private ownership is allowed, Lor in fact any privacy at all, leat there should be secret hoarding of personal effects; which is not allow ed. The Pootmaster at Tongkiang hit the post office funds in a fish Hank-full of water with the fish swimming over the hidden silver. But the money was discovered, the postmaster arrested and after, his clothes had been soaked in kerosene he was set on fire and barnod to death.
Wheat Prospects Good.
Presentation to a Missionary.
wholesale to a subordinate who pays" a fixed sun to the head-quarters and then collects as much as he can to re-imbursh himself. Needless to say, he takes care not to lose on the trafaction, and doubtlem - al- laws a pretty big margin to cover any eventualities. Such and such at the ways of this Western Para-.. dise, far from the recorded promises and polito speeches of the Central Government.
At the annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society Mi Gertrude E. Wells was presented by her fellow-missionaries with a beautiful set of ülk embroideries in commemoration of her forty yearA' service in West China. Miss Wells, came to Szechuan with the first Party of C.M.S. Missionaries in 1801 and is the only one of the party now working on the field.
...
Motor Record from Chungking. A speed-record in communications was made this week when a motor truck arrived from Chungking, having done the journey in just under two days. The motor-road has just been completed. It has some bad patches and an awkward ferry to manoeuvre and is essential- ly a dry-weather road only, but the fact remains that a journey which has hitherto occupied eight or ten anys can now be dont in two. The same car brought mails from Shang- lai which had come by air as far as Chungking and the whole dis tance from Shanghai to Chengtu was covered in four and a half daya. This is a great achievement and a good pron for the future.
It is hoped that an air passenger service will soon be established-be- tween Chungking and Changtu. At present the machines intended for this line have been diverted for use elsewhere, but it is hoped that this route will be open for air travel soon. This being so it is expected that the number of visitors to Sze- chuan will be gateter than ever.
Last Summer at the mountain resorts, particularly Mount Omej, there were several visitors from Hong Kong and Shanghai. A Chinese firm is about to open a branch travel agency in Kisting, the river port for it. Omei, în ad-- dition to the branch they already have at Chungking. This is ob viously in expectation of a larger- number of visitors
Excessive: Freight Taxes.
Freight taxes are getting heavier than ever. Often the taxes charged by military officials between Ichang and Chengtu exceod many times the value of the goods at the coast For a hundred dollars' worth of The Spring rainą have come just medicines bought in Shanghai at the right time to help on the (where taxes have alredy been paid) when crop which is now sturdy the Mission Hospitals have had to and strong, giving promise of a pay eight hundred dolars in taxes splendid harvest. The mustard is before the good are delivered. coming into bloom and the fields. These texes are all charged above turning into a brilliant, shimmer- lobang No parcels can be taken ing yellow. It is a small crop and from the Post Office here without a is not so vigorous as it should be tax being paid in an office which This is due to the late winter and a military official has opened op the tardy approach · of · Spring posits the G.P:O... One receives a weather. Sunshine is needed to ship of paper from the Post Office › bring it forward, but sunshine_ying-onroel is waiting at the Boarce in Szechuan and seems par- P.0. to be called for and the little ticularly scarce just now. Prices slip bears the welcome logénd are keeping stendy. Rics has not "Duty Freo." But on going to gone up in price and other things fetch the parcel one in told that it are regulated by it,
Chinisse. Colonization,
cannot be taken away without the "Hamulsion of the gentleman howe „offee is over the way. In other words the Post Office works under local military intimidation. One has to go to the office over the way, The West China Border Research pay a tax to the army, get a re- Society has had some interesting capt and then, armed with this moetings Intely and is thoroughly receipt return to the Parcels Office justifying the wide reputation it and get the longed for package." has gained for sound research into- border conditions. Mr. J. H. Ed. It used to be poble sometimes gar the veteran missionary-explor fam foreigners to get & pasa from or of the Tibetan Borderland, re, the Big Men ́át #|
iry berit béïülye gavert a very intgresking' quarters and so svinc lecture on Chinese colonization oll now this ties are
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