DISORDER AND BRIGANDAGE IN KWEICHOW PROVINCE
BUT THE MOTOR BUS SERVICES CARRY ON
COMEDIES AND EXCITEMENTS FOR TRAVELLERS
(From "Our Own Correspondent)
KIUCHOW. Kweichow, July 14. The Provincial Chairman's wife having returned from Canton with fresh supplies of arms and ammuni- tions, renewed efforts are being uide to oust the opponents on the East, North and West sides of the province. Reinforcements were re- cently send to attack General Che
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bus started. You see, if que, gives up his sent, the other passengers breathe a little deeper und swell enough to crowd up the vacant space: knee and elbow room are at a premium, and what chance his n sardine of squirmingback into his can if once he gets out of it." We went a miles without a blow out: that fixed, we made another soven miles hefore another tire went bang! The driver slowed the cur and stopped. After a little silence he asked, "Is it flat?" Two as sistants untangled themselves, slow. by and reported, "Yes-beyond re- pair." Passengers began to wriggle but of doors and windows, com. plain about the heat,' asked when the tire would he repaired, cursed, smoked cigarettes, and gave voluble advice to the driver and assistants who presently decided after a lengthy conference that the car would have to be jacked up The object of repairing the tire was not so much to make it service- able as just to get to a place where wo could put up for the night. What difference does it make if we get" in to-day or to-morrow. When
the East and while it is report- ed that the latter's forces have been driven back and into Hunan General Che himself is said to have entrenched · himself in Tungjeu. The river almost surrounds that town and makes it easy to defend. Bordering on to Kweichow on the East there is trouble in Hunan,
·One officer pamed Ch'en had,his uncle murdered by the uncle's soldiers and has taken over his Juen. The Provincial Chairman of Hunan, General Ho has sent forces to punish General Chen, but the latter holds sway over n large ares in the West of Hunan and it is not easy to attack him. As a re sult of this state of affairs the river traffic on the upper reaches of the Yuan River is suspended. After (he has been crushed in the East of Kweichow, General Wang hopeaite were 10 miles from Kweiyang to put down Chiang in the North the sun set, the patch on the tire
Yu in the West.
worked loose and the air rushed Brigandage is pife on many roads out with a miserable howl, and the especially in the Anshun locality. drivers and passengers lost "courage The Mission Hospital at Anshun in the gathering darkness and put recently had a case of a year old up in a little village. I found a infant who had been shot through man who was willing to carry my the arm by brigands and both its light load; and walked into Kwei- parents having been kiled. Last vang in the moonlight. month party of misionaries entered Kweichow from Szechuan. Many prophesied that they would not get through. Fighting had reased shortly before they reached the border but if from Kweichow they met with bandits. Providen tially they got through without being molested, but the party of Chinese who followed the next day lost everything. Troops were only a few li from where the bandits were looting. The party included the Rev. G. W. Gibb, M.A.-China Director of the China Inland Mis sion, the Revs. Butler, G. K. Smith, and Pike, Mrs. Butler, and the Messes. Robinson and Tucker.
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Runaway Soldiers.
A party of runaway soldiers have been causing trouble at Yuking during the past weeks and country markets have been scared to meet in the neighbourhood of that dis- trict for fear of these men coming to""help themselves." For some days it was feared they would come to Kiuchow and the local militia
was strengthened to prepare for emergencies.
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More Trouble With Soldiers.
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Two days later. Mrs. Pike and I went to Anshun by bus. About half way a crowd of soldiers bar ricaded the road with benches and tried to commandeer the bus. The driver refuses and the second hs- sistant resisted one soldier. The ery of "Beat him!" was raised, and the crowd went wild. had a certain amount of respect for Mrs. Pike's white hair, or things might have been mich worse. A berich was broken over the head of the engine, but when the wind
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shield was broken there was a bi of a lull-and we got safely away.. Only the hand of the Lord prevent; ed violence that day.
Mrs. Allbutt and I returned to Kweiyang a few days later on a special bus that was taking Dr. Fish to attend a patient in the capital. We had a wonderful start in the moonlight, but burst a tire before we were hallway there, A little later another burst as it were, out of sympathy for the driver who said he was sleepy. We got 1. drenched in arhin-storm and Bus Travelling,
eventually sat up all night while the driver and assistants were swap There are a few motor vehicles ping yarns, mapping, eating dough. on the one or two roads of which strings and repairing the tire. We the province boasts. The Rev. got on the way again when a Allbutt relates his recent experi-rooster crowed, but the tube popped ences as follows: It is two hefty out of its casing, and we were days' walk to Kweiting. At Kwei- delayed again till daybreak. Dr. ting I boarded the bus at 7 a.m. Fish has been called upon to make and sat in a corner on my bedding, that samd trip several times since Kind friends of the Mission station and always with simliar experi. invited me down from my perch ences. At the present time.. the long enough to eat some lunch. but most comfortable why to lake n I sat four or five hours before the busride in Kweichow is to walk"
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AMERICA'S RECOVERY PLANS
Economist Finds Nothing New In Them
** ALL HAVE BEEN TRIED, AND FOUND WANTING **
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933
PIRATE GANG ROUNDED UP
30 SUSPECTS ARRESTED AT SHAUKIWAN
to
Relieved to have come to Hong Kong
organise" another piracy, thirteen suspected pirates, who, it is thought, are members of a Bias Bay gang, were arrested when the Police carried out a series of raids in the Saiwanbo district, Shaukiwas, on Friday night. Three revolvers were also seized during the course of the operations.
It was stated that the raids wore undertaken by fifteen members of the Criminal Investigation Depart ment, the first party visiting a house in Main Street. followed by Faids on two huts situ "ated" an the hillside within easy. distance of each other.
This "was
Falling upon the men an quickly, as they did, the police took them completely by surprise with the result that no less than 30 people were arrested.
Buried in a vegetable plot on the hillside the Police discovered a bucket. Within a false compart ment fitted into the bottom of the
utensil they found three loaded
revolvers.
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·Police Secretive.
The Police are reticent about further investigations ensuing from the arrests, but it is learned that after close questioning, they have released 17 of the original number of suspects taken into custody, and bave detained the remainder, one of whom has been identified aa an ex-gunman who was some time ago deported from the Colony.
A HOT BANK HOLIDAY
BATHING POPULAR
MARSHAL CHANG HSUEH
LIANG
ENJOYING LIFE IN EUROPE
Visits To Many Military And Air Force Establishments
(From Our Owl Correspondent)
HOTEL FLORA, Rome,
July 9, 1933, The above photograph of Mar. shal Chang Hsueh Liang was taken a few days ago.. Marshal Chang has now regained vigorous health, and is actively employing his time studying the working of Fascism in Italy, especially with regard to administration, the military a 1 air
forces.
The hot weather experienced dur.ng the past three days made practically all forms of sport except swimming impossible with the re- salt that the bathing beaches at all points in the island as well as in Kowloon were very crowded..
Repulse Bay, Shek-O, Big Wave Bay, Clear Water Bay, Castle Peak and all the other bathing resorts were crowded with holiday-makers, and a good time was enjoyed by all. Taking full advantage of the moonlight, a number of parties went out to the beaches on Saturday and Sunday nights. Yesterday morning the No. 1 typhoon signal was hoist-go to France and England, there ed but, the day remained quite per fect throughout, for all holiday makers:
He has had conversations with | Mussolini and the King, and was taken through all branches of the air service by General Balbao. When Marshal Chang has complet- ed his studies in Italy he hopes to
to familiarise himself with modern working of military and air forces, and later to proceed to Turkey and Russia personally to see what the administration in doing for those countries.
at Olympis, and at Aldershot, Lad flew back by French 'plane to Paris, whence he departed immedi ately by car for Rome, vis the Riviera. The few days he had in London caused the Marshal to de- velop a warm spot in his heart for that city, perhaps because there he found he could understand, and he understood by, anyone to whom he spoke. Naturally in Italy and France he has difficulty since he knows nothing of either language.
He has settled his family in a
house in Rome, and will shortly. leave for the north again. He hopes to spend some time in Bri tish industries as well as with problems of defence, and looks forward to meeting some of the makers of the British Empire. The whole family quickly adapted them selves to European conditions and food, and are all enjoying the best Marshal Chang has already taken of health. The two sons of the 5. Rejection "of the "pseudo-a hurried motor car trip from Marshal are studying under a Humanitarianism of the social Rome to Paris, and from there to English tutor and will soon go to pathy is with the labour oligarchy ance of first class highways and work while the daughter is under worker and uplifter whose gym London by air. The great import England to settle down to school sanitary measures in towns and an English governess and will later and not the under dog."
cities was impressed upon him by go to an English school, The Mar- what he saw." He flew to London shal's greatest thrill was, perhaps, in one of the giant Imperial Airway his walk back to Aldershot after planes, stayed in London long midnight, ad one of an English enough to see the military display, crowd, of thousands.
ployment:
6. Insistence on the fundamental of the survival of the fittest in industry as long as possible.
7. Refusal to believe that there 1 small group picked out by nature or campaign contributions who are especially entitled receive the awards of government.
8. Insistence that those who ars intrusted with the savings of the public shall administer them hoa- estly,"
THE HUAI RIVER SCHEME
STEADY PROGRESS WITH this.
"FIRST STAGES
・the
Chinese Government agreed, but the European war soon broke out, and the loan was never "If we can carry out even
raised. Surveys made at that time small part of this programme," he said, we shall go far toward the Shanghai The first stages of and later, however, showed beyond of the largest constructive famines in the Huai basin were doubt that recurrent floods and restoration of that general concep- one
ever undertaken by a tion of economic freedom, and in-projects dustrial liberalism which has lain Chinese Government are scheduled; preventable, and that an irrigation at the base of the most of the bene- for completion this month The and flood prevention project could ficial achievements in economics, Huai River irrigation and food open up enough land to make it profitable. However, no Chinese science and business of the past 100 December, is expected to open up began the project.
prevention project, started lant Government had funds available to 19,000,000,000 acres of land in the very heart of China proper, and Control & river which has caused disastrous floods and famines con tinuously since the fourteenth cen tury.
Ages; our 'gold embargo' is neo-yesTI." mercantilism. We have visited the lumber room of economic theory Skeptical of Recovery Plan.
and we have refinished our liv ing quarters with the broken- down furniture of the past genera tion"
pointed out, have been disposed to elect political candidates largely according to conditions of crops and the stock exchange, rather than on the basis of their theory
Défnas Liberál Codé,
Charlottesville, Va-Political and financial leaders of the na- tion were sharply condemned at of government. the seventh annual Institute of! Public Affairs here by Dr. H. Parker Willis, Columbia Universitý economist, for their failure to adopt consistent philosophy of economic conduct."
The code of economic liberalism; which Dr. Wills said he would like fo see adopted, included:
It will be a miracle if the Ad ministration's effort to manage in- dustry is successful, Dr. Rufus 8. Tucker, New York consulting Nanking
ar The .
Foreign Experts.
The present Government at Nan- King has taken up the project seriously again. At Nanking' te quest, the League of Nationa The project now started by sent three experts, one French, commission, after more on British, one German,.....to People in this country, it was economist, told the same, meeting than 20 years of unfruitful discus survey the Hai River Th
The way to avoid future depression, will be completed in stages carried out the survey in spite sions," he declared, "is not to this rapidly, as funds are available. crease the amount of government
of the Siso-Japanese conflictat interference, but to reduce the first age is excavation of the Shanghai, recommending a project Governmental action intended to Changdi River. The next to begin by which the Huai River can be this summer, is a movable dam at controlled at minimum cost. The increase production of proats or Chingpl, Honan,
frat atage of a project based upon even wages has in the past tre « Pouching" by Yellow River.
these recommendations was started quently failed and if the Gévárn;
The Husi River rises in the hills fast. December. ment attempts, to assist in limiting of Honan, and originally emptied The project calls for excavation output or fixing prices, its effort into the Yellow Bea. But in the of a number of lakes, rivers and is almost surely doomed to failure, fourteenth century the Yellow canals, for reconstruction of seven in Dr. Tuckers VIOW
River shifted its bed soveral hun- locks in the Grand Canal máitáble The impasse at the World Econo- 1. Reinstatement of a system 'ot While President Roosevelt's in dred miles southward, usurped the | for ships up to 900 tons; for kn 8x+ mie Conference he attributed to freer communications between naflationary policies have been con lower bed of the Husi River, and tensive dike system through the fat sistently criticized before the money forced the Hual to seek en outlet country traversed by the river. It the lack of consisteney and careful tions.
and banking round table all this elsewhere. Its flow since that time has been arranged in stages, which thought on the part of the United
2. Willingness to grant to those week, commendation was given to has been completely upset, no that may be completed as funda are States and its failure to do its duty in aiding in the shaping of parts of the earth which possess his effort to solve the farm mort it empties in helter-skelter fashion available. international opinion and then productiveness for given gage problem. Dr. A. Wellington through a series of lakes and the producte the right to develop their Taylor, dean of the graduate school Grand Canal into the Yangtaze resources to the utmost.
of business administration of New River, causing floods in unexpected 3.Insistence that these commo, York University, said the wisdom parts of Honan, Anhwei and ditics be paid for upon à basis of of this effort could not be questions Kiangen Provinces, and solidworth.
od. "It is not inflation, but re- After a particularly disastrous tation," he declared, adding that flood in the Huai basin, an Ameri 4. Refusal to grind the ax of the President is to be especially can Red Cross engineering.com small monopolistic groups of labour commended for refusing to delay mission came to China fac1914, and whose chief object is to keep others solution of the farm loas pro recommended that; a G20,000,000 units of labour from getting emblem with the country busy pursu-loan be raised to excavate suit
(l'ontinued on next column). ing will-o'-the-wisp of inaction.”
guiding it
Most of the ideas upon which the Government is working are neither new nor radical, Dr. Willis declared. Our intra-nationalism is extreme protection," he said. 12 Our industrial recovery is sufr sidy to special groups of interests our Labour policy is the craft guild monopoly of the later Middle.
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· Residents of the Hual basin are showing a keen interest in the work, and most of the Leuncing thus far has been done locally, “it in even believed porrible that the antife project can be finished; by contributions from those who will profit, directly from its completion. Alany rates beginning hat; bee made for the first time, and serious attention in being paid to the im- able basin for the Huai River. To portant project,
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