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TUESDAY, Septembar 6. 1921. Commencing at 2.96 pm. their Rooms, Duddell Street, A Priste Collection of Old Chiaree fainting & Curios,

A few pence Tads-ware nid Coral Orgamects.

Terns : Cash on delivery,

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hongkozz. August 31. 1221.

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TRIBES DISTRICT.

INTERESTING TRIPS,

THATE

Recess

This Advertisment is issued by Westminster Tobacco Co. Ltd.

A LAND OF TURMOIL AND STRIFE.

Writing from Chengtu. Sze, on August 1, a X. C. D. Nees, Cor respondent says

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Desuite the wet season the majority of the Chengla foreign community ploughed their way through mud and rain to their respective summer re sorts. Oumei. Kuanhsien and Pehlut ing are the popular places and all available rooms have been occupied. The latter is the youngest of the trio and bas a baker's dozen of bungalows.

This year it was included in the robber infested district and a consular warning was sent to those planning to

purposes.

they use in conversation. Chinese i It has taken the Chinese many settlements or trading posts dot the centuries to get even their present main roads which follow the main nominal jurisdiction over the fierce river and some of its larger branches. tribesmen whose former delight was To these the natives resort for trading to make disastrous raids upon the, Chinese are alo thinly more peaceful towns and cities of scattered through the hills but only the plains. In short the dread of as tenants of the tribesmen. These these raids were so recent that have a sort of extraterritorial rights at the close of the 19th century one especially when accused of crimes of the principal attractions, or shall involving the death sentence.

we say, one of the chief exercises, at The tribes people are tall, buriy the annual review of troops on the and generally quite friendly. They Great East parade ground in Chengtu wear coarse homespun clothing. The was sham battle between the uncouth women's dress has a different cut to Chinese soldiers with their flintlocks. the Chinese having more of the skirt and a ban of Mants (barbarians) effect. Though timid, their timidity with their bamboo woven shields and is quite different frem that of the crude spears who were supposed to

Chinese women. The latter has the be raiding a city appearance of Iu-hao-l-si as if there) were some shame attached,

A SLEEPING VOLCANO.

Fortunately for the people of the The tribes girl or woman has the plains the tribes have been so tamed same timidity of alertness as the doe, that if left alone they are neither a ready to spring. In their girlhood menace to the Chinese or to them make their summer residence there. they have fresh round faces that selves. Chinese magistrates occupy Later, after-consultation with the are fairly attractive but when strategic points, but their powers are beads of the market towns, in the they reach womanhood, through limited. The internal affairs of each vicinity, who were in close touch exposure and toil, their features be-tribe are controlled by a chief who. with the leaders of the robbers, come coarse. They may be seen haids his office by heredity. He the foreigners decided to take working in the fields, hoeing. plough has the power of life and death the risk and most of the houses ing, or clearing the land.

are occt pied. Mount Oumei and

EYKIE DWELLINGS.

amongst his own people. It is too the Kuanhsien hills are in pro

early to say that they are not still tected districts and in consequence,

For self protection the tribes a menace. A sleeping volcano would all available house room is occupied. People choose to live in small settle be a better description. The Chinese men's. These are seldom found officials are very wary in arousing A new attraction for those who are in the valleys, but on the summits of their displeasure. During the last anxious to spend their vacation, travelling, is a trip through the tribes bills or mountains far above the decade opium has been a source of district. From Kuanhsien westward highroads. It is a most pleasant friction. One band of soldiers who sensation when the traveller leaves | entered a tribal iuberitance, were so over the Niaugtsiling pass is a road the plains with their low buildings of roughly handled that they were glad that skirts, the tumultuous Min river; to the city of Sangpan twelve days poles, plaster and tiles, and within a to retire and no further action was

urney from Chenglu The scenery edifices, like towering castles, perched

day's travel gazes upon high stone taken,

Great resentment was felt last year up this river is most picturesque. upon the higher elevations,

over a military tax that was imposed Stretching southward and westward

A LAND OF MYSTERY,

'FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1921.

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ANTI-CENSUS· MAN.

ORDERED THE ENUMERATOR

OUT OF HIS HOUSE.

What is believed to be the first prosecution under the Census Act of 1920 came before the Marylebone magistrate the other day.

A professional man, Mr. F. Gordon

FRENCH LESSONS

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18, Morrison Hill Kand

NEGLECTED BRIDGE.

TRAFFIC NOT YET USING THE SOUTHWARK WAY.

Drivers of wheeled traffic have ap parently yet to discover that the new Southwark Bridge is open and usable. A party of Londoners going down had the Thames in a launch their attention drawn to the bridge

majesty and glory to, the scenery, but a fair vantage ground to view who occupy hills and valleys adjacent, summoned for refusing to make a be said, "It's empty, and, it's often Primeval forests furnish timber for huawy peaks, and mountainous the cities and towns of the plains scenery. These roofs are used for Zoologists, botanists and geologists drying grain, principally maize and have found this country a paradise beans.

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are the ranges that rise one above These massive stone buildings are upon them. There has been cons another till they are lost in the three and four storeys high with siderable uneasiness lest the privileges windows resembling cannon aper and prerogatives bestowed upon them plateau of Tibet.

tures. They are flat on top and by the Manchus should be abrogated covered with concrete, which makes by the Republic..

A definite history of these tribes Pratt, of Orme-court, Bayswater, was by one of their number, "Look!" Soowpeaks bere and there give not only a delightful resting place

and who possess comparatively small census return. Prosecuting counsel like that. Either drivers don't know areas, awaits the historian who will said Mr. Pratt's household consisted the bridge is there or they don't want maske zealous research among their of a wife and child and five servants, own archives, and round our their sod, when the beatus paper was for strange specimens and peculiar The buildings rise one above the discoveries by-such Chinese litera- called for, it was seen that he had

Blackfriars and London Bridges formátims. More recently special] other on elevated flats so that in the tore as is obtainable. To the student I given no partictilara - regarding the Southwark Bridge had five vehicles were in their usual busy, state, interest has been aroused in an- distance they present a formidable of anthropology and history volumes servants. His explanation was that on it, and not one of them z motor thropology through the ever alert array. Then to complete the picture lie unopened as yet in the origin, he had not asked them.. observer, Mr. J. H. Edgar, of the from one to half a dozen stone towers migrations and ..., struggles When the enumerator offered to get vehicle. What is the real reason of CLM. who has found relics of, the | eight, ten or 12 story ya high Hft their these various peoples who the information himself, Mr.Pratt was this neglect?- stone age, that would lodicate "an" heads above the dwellings like thigh | have undoubtedly arisen from abstinate, and delivered a discourse on was opened by the King on June 6. The bridge has cost £350,000, anở early, residence of man in these smoke stacks.

different branches of the great the unfairness of the Census Act, cope It was expected to afford great relief valleys.

These towers are 20 or 30 feet human family. The supposed birth cluding by ordering the enumerator The Union University of Chengta square at the base and divided off by place of the great Yu over 2000 out of the house. Later, he wrote the to traffic across the Thames. is fortunate in getting many of these floors: They may be used for storing B. C. is still held sacred in the authorities a four-page-letter, making -specimens in its growing museum. grain or as forts in time of war. mountain, fastoess. These high To the rank and file, however, the As the Chinese now act as arbiters landers bave à possible record of and declaring that head no more great attraction at the present time the fierce tribal wars that must have 4,000 years and whether they are time to learn the particulars from is the scenery and the people. Once raged almost continuously in the the aborigines of China, or a migrą... his servants than he had to learn the over the pass and turn to the right older days have largely ceased and tion from Tibet, there seems to be piano. A fire of £5 was imposed. or left and you are in a country that as a result many of these towers are no positive information. A very in with four guineas cons is aached to China only by com.little used and are becoming dilapi. |teresting booklet has been published polsión

idated; uplo

by the Rev. Thomas Torrence, The inhabitants have maintained The struggle to maintain their in-Chengta, on the history, customs and their identity throughout the centuries dependence against the aggression religion of the Chang, an aboriginal fand kept fairly pure from the Sons of the Chinese was the chief factor people of West China. falz

general stack on the Government,

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HIS remedy ha no superior as a cure for colds Group and whooping Is has been a favourite with mothers of young children for almost forty years. Camberlain's Cough Remedy cou always be depended upon and, pleas

Mission have had work along theit noc enly sures cake and ann, hat main route for yakes. The Chinese Punts these resulting in pengada in Infiaracing the tribes not mix Thege sumter jainta la parties les conference of the l In They resent being called Chinese, to desist in their senseless desire to ferested in various subjects will in 'Mision, bas opened

-tajolino-opiony or other raidoric WWE Workin

may be given as condently to a sbild sud though many speak the language, destroy one another but în uniting, the rear futury open but, fresh" valley of the

far to an adult. - Tor isla by all Chemises each tribe has its own dialect which them for common defence,

avenues of information. The CL have already berd

and Streaksepers.

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