HONAN FAMINE.
MISERY CAUSED BY MILITARY.
ACTIVITY OF RED SPEARS.
Kaifong, Ho., 'May 20.
I am sitting in what is supposed to be a good section of the beat' coach on the Langhai train from Kaifeng to suchow. The train was scheduled to start at 10.30 a.m. It is now 12.30 and there is #till
is no sign that the train going to start. I have purchased a ticket for my transportation. Sitting in the conch with me are Boven follow travellers not one of whom can produce a ticket but who act as if they owned the train. Needless to say they are in uniform.
ronson
Yesterday there was no train from Kaifeng either east or west. The military needed both lauoco- tives and cars and took them-- even the semi-sacred mail coaches. The reason thereof, or the reported
receives that
most oredence, is that Fengtien troops were massing in the west to dis arm Tien Wel-elrin's troops.. That may be, for his loyalty to the Northern cause is doubted, but it may be that there is more than a little truth in the report that the first army of the Kuominehur un- dar Feng Ya-liang in moving cast- ward.
On the 18th instant Kaifeng heard that there was a struggle going on at Shangtani, east of Siping on the Ching-Han railway, The bare report is all that we hid, the inerenti Leing that thin Yun-o's men are still in the fight- ing. This may be "preliminary to the exclusion of his resistence, for it is said his brother's dele- gate is in the south of the provineg Lu that trying to persuade him ezd.
The Red Spears.
The Red Spar Society continue to make their existence n burthen to the militarists. It is not long since the Pengtien troops gave them Heveral verses. Now they view the young Marshal with consider- able favour, for he has had large into quantities of grain moved
al distrita Drost Saveraj » severely stricken by the famine conditions following the continued rains of last year and the continu- ed ravages of war. Kaifeng has been talking about a siege of Sin-. yangchow by the Red Spears of that district. For days they held the Hupeh troops a hesieged garrison before they were driven their siege they away. During tore up much of the railway on either side of the city. When it that those Red is remembered Spear men are but the pensants of the province, without adequate arms but armed with a great zeal against the military groups, who have given their lives in great numbers in this struggle, one can have some idea of the bitterness engendered the rural heart by this ever increasing vyrahny.
Gathering of the Harvest, The wheat all over Honan and Shantung has now a very distinct
For this ly ripening colour. reason it may be that there is a present lapse of Red Spear activity, It is also prophesied that there will be no great movement of troops in battle array till after the wheat harvest is gathered. Famine conditions prevail all over Until the province at present. within the last few days reports from the west were mengre Jaccount of the cut on the railway al Kunghien. Now since Mar-
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CHAMBERLIN'S BIG VENTURE ACROSS ATLANTIC.
One filling of its gasoline tanks kept this Bellanca monoplane, "Columbia," aloft for more than 51 hours on a record-breaking test flight over Long Island, Now York, recently."
plane's builder, C. M. Bellanea, is shown in the inset.
Clarence Chamberlin (above), who is #ying the Bellanea monoplane, hails from Dennison, la.. and is 32. At Iowa Stace "University he studied electrical engineering: He was in the air service during the war, and is regarded as one of the best test pilots in America. He hopes to reach Berlin in his one "hup," or go even further if his petrol lasta. Latest news of his progress will be found on our front page.
SPORTSMEN ADOPT
NEW DOG.
BASSET HOUND GOES TO AMERICA.
The Armiet of the Ankuuchun The Ankaochun has. adopted the defnite slogan "With united hearts attack the Reds." The four char- acters from which 1 have translat- led the above are on an armlet which every man wears. Marshal Chang seems to be learning from New York. There is a new star his opponents the arts of propa- in dogdom that threatens to outganda and now maintains a regu- shine any breed that has been introlar arm of the service for this duced in America within the past work. generation.
It is the basset hound, It was reported recently that the. still a novelty in this country but acting principal of the Honan Col- a recognized sports champion in lege, Professor Tsau Li-king, a Europe for three centuries.
Houanese American returned stud- The basset rose to its greatest ent, with 11 students of that ins- fame in France in the middle of the titution, were placed under arrest, Some time as communist suspects.. It is this seventeenth century. during his carly history a blood-College that has benefited se large- hound strain was introduced into ly from the estate of ex-Governor the species and now, although the Chao Til, whom it will be remem- basset blood is nearly pure, Romebered suffered eclipse because of tracca of the mixed ancestry can be his adherence to the Fengtien It was felt that if noticed. The legs of the basset are caust in 1922. short, heavily-boned and usually any place, the College, would be a For all that he centre for communist activities. very crooked. covers the ground like a Bash and These suspicions seem to have has been used in Europe in hunting been confirmed. When Marshid Feng deer, wild boar, wolf, heres, foxes arrived a few days ago he ordered. and quail.
a special court of inquiry which berated all those merely proven to be Kwoh Ma, Tang members. Mr. Tsao and four others were
been removed to Chengchow.
Heavy Troops Movements.
Heuchowfu, May 21. Trains on the Tientsin-Pukow TO-DAY'S. QUESTIONS. line, are not running south of the city from to-day. All the informa- The following general know. [tion one can elicit is that Pukow ledge paper has been taken from has been reported in the hands of the Daily Express.
shap Wahas moved - HOW MUCH DO YOU retained in custody and have now!
say not to fight-and the rond is
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beyond Loyang we have been hearing of the univ- ersal misery there likewise: misery which up to the present Mar- shal. Ching Hsueh-liang's relief measures have not reached.
In the Kuoitchful prefecture, the castern area, at present free of fighting, his efforts have somewhat "eased the heavy burdens of the In all that district the most poor. destitute have for some time been reduced to enting grasses, leaves and bark. Grain has been moved into acveral areas and is being sold to those with some money at a price much cheaper than the pre- vailing price, and to those with- out money, a half cutty a day is distributed. The International
Famine Relief is also granting re- lef, although the funds at their disposal are all but exhausted.
In the Kueiteh prefecture, the wheat is good lotard the Kiangsu border but short and thin along the old bed of the Yellow River. In the latter district there is much land, still holding water from last year's rains, ao soured and sudden that no returns will come this year. In the Mamuh district in the cast poppy is in full bloom on perhaps one-tenth or one twelfth of the land adjacent to the railway. It is very beautiful now but will be ugly anough when the bloom falls off and it is still uglior in principle. The local magistrates are collect- ing $8 a mow for the land under poppy culture:
KNOW?
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 12 of this issue.
the Nationalist forces for the last few days and that Chen Tiao-yuan holds lofei in country from Nag- hruchow. This city is only 50 miles south of Hsuchowiu, the Im- portant Lunghai-Tsinpu railway
Later.
1.-Whe Wus described is the
"Scourge of Mankind"? 2.-Why do so many hotels hear centre.
the name "Bristol"?
3. What English King translated As par trains have been travelling
the Bible? 4.-What famous English writer
north"to-day, life and again, we were, shanted off on to aide tracks.
hnd to be strapped between to permit the passage of troop iwo boards whenever he went
trains always going south, The out? 5.--What famous mosque was once trainmen gave us the information that 20 of such trains have passed a Christian church?
6-In what European river do aj south yesterday and to-day. "Some- red and a blue stream mingle? thing big seems to be under pro- 7--Who discovered the cure for greas or pending-Correspondent
hydrophobia?
of N. C. Daily News.
8.What in the meaning of Albion? 0.-Who was Guarnerius?
10. Who wrote "Elkonocinstea"?
11.
and against whom?
Of whom was it said. "his de-! fects were so lovable that ong could forgive his virtues"
12. What great painter was also famous as a sculptor, on- gineer, architect, and anato- mist?
13. What is the Elyseo? 14.-What is a yatagan? 15.-Why do the Fellows
MOSCOW SPLIT.
COMMUNIST PARTY
EXCLUSIONS.
Moscow, June 5.
After hearing M. Bukharin'a re- port, the Moscow committee of the Communist Party has decided to insist on the exclusion of Queen's College, Oxford, roreteky and Zinovieff from the ceive each Christmas a needle Central Executive Committee of
and throad?
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