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ETERNAL PEKING.

CHINA'S HIDDEN AWAY EMPEROR.

FRONT CENT AL 1500.

foreigner, had ever entered the confines of the Forbidden City Unmost of the three distinct cities of the capital) from the Peking of 1923 with its complete indifferance to the white race within all its ge THE NATIONAL ART MUSEUM One of the striking evidences of Peking as about Shakespeare. Yet à modernization créeping into the much will yet bewritten about both;"

In the world's literature, Journalistic and otherwise, as much bas

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been

about written.

PLEASANT SHOPPING.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S NEW DEPARTMENT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

UGNIW” HARUM COMMERCIAL

HONGKÔNG NOTES AND COMMENT.

PUBLIC MOTOR LORRIES

Quite like the best. West End models, is the new footwear depart- PARK

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SHTARO

was also reported, but Rond allthe

othor Far Hastern marketė -has- proved productive.) DETSK

Buyer for the Levant who were apparently nrriots to secure-sup- plios last we have this wook limft ed their nativities. Egypt bea taken stock lots of white goods, and fa larger miscellaneous trade is n

ported for Mediterranean outlets

ment Messrs. Lane, Crawford and fat melted med Co., have opened inside their well. A suggestion which may be con known store.Formerly the foot sidered as being rather premature and for the African markete. Cón- wear department was placed but which is likely to be carriedtinental trade has been checked by near the outfitting departe, into effect when the need becomes the continuance of the Ruhr dispute ment, but growing demands too. pressing, has been made by and the further collapse of the Ger have made, this space, inadequate one of the officials of the Kung man murit, American requiremsen be The mezzanine. Door between the Ping guild, which includes most are baile from book, burd ground and the first floors has now of the transport men of the Colony one-trado nying has been confine been tastefully arranged asthe foot-It is that public mpton-lorries ed to the merest tales. No real wear department and here, many could be hired, out with proat for activity in this section of the market famous nakes are displayed commercial purposes. Day after noed now be looked for unl the Customers will find this latest day, large numbers of small de autumn. There are many reports improvement very convenient in liveries and removals are made deed, "They will also appreciate from one part of the town, to the of prolonged Whitsunitide stoppages of looms, and also of firms shutting the new arrangement of the trunk other. Whether it be 50 bags department which has found a new of sugar 100 secks down portions of their machinery In Burnley, it is stated, not more of

dozen home too on the same floor.

kega of paint, or a few cases of than 40 per cent of the loans are pieco Toods, the antiquated, at work. method of dugaking a fuüßer or The out in bleaching matos en coolles who pul trucks must be nounced on Monday turns out to be followed. When business is dull no more than a crumb of comfort; the loss of time is not felt but and cannot be regarded se baving !quick service will prove an impor had, any effect on cloth busines

tant factor when things are brisk. When differences of shillings exist Not only is time saved but trans between buyer and sellers reluc port by mato lorry must always be fibe in cost of a penby or so per more efficient than the trucks. Till pioco, which is all that the bleach. some years ago, the Tramway Coing cut represente, need not be con

sidorea seriously, fan ductularM always had a grievance against the trucks which would all persist in In the yarn market demand for going along the tram-lines and all make of twist and weft has been adding considerably to the wear festricted, and spinners of Ainon

PIONEER'S GRAVE.

DISCOVERY IN FIRM'S

COMPOUND. WH

flour

the thenics are as inexhaustible as least modern spot perhaps in the Sacred to the memory of Ezekiel fully world is given by the establishment Jacob David, born Bombay, died water. Quite as 24 Rome, Peking isan of the National Art Muscun. First, Tentsin,, on January 18, 1870. eternal city. But is changing because it is actually located within This inscription, carved deeply on

China too. New rapidly for visitors with new points of view will, the Forbidden City itself. Second, small stone, was unearthed dur, perennially see new things in because the three must regal and g excavations in a compound on

is now forbidden as the trucks Peking, and reinterpret Peking to holy palaces of China have had their Consular Road, Tientsin, on June, and-tear, bill This, it is believed, qualifiée.bivé dil jo "corțain' invariably caused obstruction by Amoitat of ground. Bolton sorte ro best remaining treasures callously 12.

Careful digging revealed that the;

mnin well protected by engage getting stuck.. brought to this spot for exhibition

preservation namely, stone was the head stone of a gravo,

Goods in a lorry would not havements, however and

the palace at Jehol, at and a larger memorial plate left no toundergo the same risks from the from Mukden, and at Peking. Also, the doubt that the body of one of the weather as when placed on a truck institution was founded by Yuan basinas pionoor of Tonton was and another aspect, seldom brought Shih-kal, China's first "President," buried there. The compound is in to light, is the pilferage of eatables as a feature of an education policy the occupation of A. B. Rosenfeld, from trucks. The latter would of and they at once communicated course be obviated if a lorry were built upon westera lines.

with the owner, Collins and Com used

to

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suit themselves. So I venture to say something also about the imperial city: Peking is passing. Not only the reality, the visible thing, is metamorphosing before our eyes: but the abstraction is stirring in its age-long chrysalis, and a butterfly, glinting with the daring colours of the twentieth century, is preparing emerge, says the Christian Science Moniter.

Seasoned travellers may have re- marked that in labour expended and In time required to complete, that grand progression of structures which marches magnificently across the wide city from the Bell Tower to the Altar of Heaven, dwarfs decidedly Europe's most pretentious extravagance, Vor sailles. Moreover, in artistic con- ception and resoluteness, surely it is superior to the Louis XVI are rogance. Its scope makes the modern visitor gasp. From end to end this sweep of notable buildings must be nearly three miles long-I have heard it asserted as longer. It is the spinal column of Peking.

And the spinal colums is weak ching. Here and there tufts of grass are lodging on the blue-tiled and yellow-tiled roofs;abrick, a stone, a joist, an ornament, is gone in this building and in that. The imperis little wonder that the Chinese

In this museum a museum in China is an anomaly--is held one of the most valuable collections of art objects that exists anywhere. Council. No race has surpassed the Chinese

LITTLE FOR UPKEEP,

al household's allowance is regul- arly cut each year, and each year less and less effort is made by the Imperial household to keep things up. A dozen years ago in Peking serious attention to upkeep petered out. Everywhere, the visitor since

only

even

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CANADIAN NOTES. P

Vancouver became last year the biggest port in Canada, the biggest grain port on the Pacific Coast, and the third port on the const- ne' re garis total cargo tontiege, according to figures présented to the Mer chants' Exchange there by Colonial W. R. Dockrill, president.Last

vedenied detta fallega skodel

year 16,641 vasele were mwirds.

pany. The discovery was also res It was pointed out that coolies ported to the British Municipal, could accompany a truck and that this may hot be possible in the case Steps are being taken by the of a ferry. However, this could in ceramics, lacquered ware,! Jowiali Community, says the Peldig be overcome by the lorry owners cloisonne, ivory carving, bronzes and Tientsin Times, to have the arranging a system whereby cool there as compared with 3;782|ton and enamelling; no race has body removed to the Jewish Ceme. ies could be engaged where there yeare sooo part's gross tonnage was much traffic. This entails was 12,283,000 last year, compared handled jade, onyx, jasper, agate, and lapis to compare with them! tery.

Mr. David, who was born in 1847, the discussion of a side-issue, with 1,804,000 in 1912. Forty-two And in this collection the very' finest specimens in existence cani was manager of Sassoon's and one Hardly any of the godowns be marvelled at by an age that has of the most prominent of the early on this side of the harbour boast ocean shipping lines now use this in most respects entirely lost the residents of Tientsin. The Council any mechanical facilities for hand-port regularly, an compared with 12 getting coolies to carry them on eight ocean-going vessels a month ability to reproduce them. Au records showed that he had been ling cargo, the old methods of in 1919 and seven in 1910. Fifty- thorities who dare place any figure buried in the compound now occupi. their shoulders being followed off the port in 1922, as compared of value on the collection place it ed by Mr. Roconfeld, but the exact If facilities were installed in with ten in 1913,· · to exceed $100,000,000. In reality, spot where he was buried was not godowns for putting goods into a

The total wheat production of it is priceless: money is in known. The grave had been cover forry, there would be little trouble. commensurate with such art od with earth so that it was on a A firm or garage of motor-forries Canada in 1022 was 899,788,400; and arts. Here gathered uniform level with the remainder of would be another step towards busbols and of this amount Bask

produced 250,167,000 together is the handiwork of the compound, and quite indistin bringing the Colony, more info chewan a people who borrowed nothing guishable. from any other people; but or iginated and developed, at 36- tonishing number of crafts and industries within their borders. It

PURPLE NOSES.

line with other modern cities. By bushels or practically 68 per cent, studying details for a few months half as much again se the balance all the necessary information could Lof Canada put together: Stakatcha. be gathered and a system augu-won's wheat crop amounted in value rated. With the Chinese it would to $287,000,000, while production be advisable to “ensiled, their costs including seeding, harvesting

could regard the rest of the world STUDENT HANDCUFFED BY cooperation by asking them to threading, etc., have been estimated as barbarians.

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Another piece of contributory suggestion of a changing order is the fact that bogus antiques and

CAPTORS...

A dozen students of the Imperial imitation brocades and spurious College of Science and Technology,

put up some of the capital. At to not exceed $187,000,000, leaving | Brstoverhead and other expenses & not surplus of $100,000,000. may make motor-lorries more

"been using motor-lorries för years!

G right way, the service ought to be

JAVA SUGAR.

PROBAÁLE LOWER YIELD.

expensive but the efficiency and One out of every 15 people in other benefits to be derived from Saskatchewan owns an automobile. jewels have now become a regular South Kensington, bad thair noses their use would compensate for According to the latest Government the war realizes that China feels in offering in the shops. The well-minted purple by students of the this. Many of the leading figures Saskatchewan, whem popu- the great imperial monuments nigh inexhaustible stores of curious

a sight-seeing interest, and art treasures touted by guides University of London at the climax manufacturers in the colony, have lation is over 70 per cent rural, bas And no funds are availabic, books, appear to have almost of an organised rag. "

now, and there is no reason why a larger automobile regntration A fortnight ago Imperial College the smaller merchant or store should than any other province in the to run China's uncertain given out in this year 1923. That railways adequately, to pay they have to resort to a com- udont raided a meeting held by not emulate their example by join Dominion. her consuls, or to support merce of substitution, is to the the University students at the ing together: One firm may not Boxer Indemnity students abroad; repeated visitor proof that Peking's Albert Hall and captured the tons have enough business for ont lorry let alone to furbish up her show dealers are running out of raw cots of King's Collego and Batter but a number could find sufficient places for strangers. Republi- material. And there is no source.sca College. This "g" was a work for it If developed in the canism and the slow infiltration of of supply, for the Mings and Sungs reprisal, new concepts into China is causing and the early Manchus are gone. Nearly 250 young men from the remunerative. Perhaps spite of profound indifferences toward her

In the western world we children various University colleges massed the motor companies at present elder magnificences and ordained of today are always forgetting at the Albert Hall at 9 am, with a operating in Hongkong might ceremonies. The Peking mirror that what we have come to regard motor-lorry. In a very short time investigate the possibilities, reflects these changes, Peking as empires and symbols of em- the motor-lorry was full of bound will soon not be as she was for piracy are, but trifling compared and gagged and very furious young AECS.

with the scope and power of the men whose frantic struggle cheered Not that to-day's Peking lacks great dynastics of Asia. Alex the hearts of their captors, who fascination. Bactrian camels yet ander's territory, that of the marched in friumph with them lurch coal and carpets and fire-Ptolemys, the Roman Empire, through Kensington High-troot and wood and wool along its roads. Charlemagne's dominions-what Piccadilly to the Embankment and Donkey trains toddle by as dog are these compared to the puissance

Dullness and apathy have been gedly, as usefully, as ever. The of the Moghuls or to Kublai Khanna King's College quadranglo great city gales wontedly frown or to the endless succession of

One of the prisoners was hand the outstanding featured of the cloth down upon us mixed and hurried Chinese dynasties that brought cuffed because, as one of ble rag: market during the past week, and an endless chain of humanity China up through barbarity to era explained to Daily Mail the general turnover both of yarn bearing burdens as ever. In electric lights and gasoline porter, he was just a little and piece-goods has been below the

Superiors Laverage, Balesmon in both sections her precints, as over the wide But one cannot help feeling what rough" Flowery Kingdom, one-half that puissance, that; absolutism, In King's College "squad" the of the market displayed a degree of China seems engaged in trans-was when ho stips within the For captives were bundled out of the anxiety to get something down on porting the other half. By bidden City and sits mouselike, lorry and dumped down before the their order books but they received sedan-chair, by jinricksla, by peeping at courtyards and gates, collego mascot a lien to which very little encouragement from August Peking-cart, by wheel and the high, richly toned interiors they were forced to make humble buyers, saya a Home paper in mailak barrow, by pig-a-back, by palan- of the structures that flank them; obeisance. Th

Then, very, solemnly wook.

MANCHESTER CLOTH

MARKETSEGO

INTROYED BIDS, FOR CHINA -SHIRTINGS.

quin, by autqinobile, fully one-half its flights of cascading steps; its their hoses, were pointed hid two of The recovery in both American Peking's populate travel some golden-tiled sea of roofs; its them were "chrisfered!! with a bag and Egyptian fulmen “which at on where daily; not to speak of them bronze lops, urns, lanterns, that of flour. Finally they had their time of the day took July contade that ride camel-back, horse-back, are the last word in the art: the noses washed am were invited to for American to 19.750, or 70 donkey-back, and in bullock-cart marble bridges and balustrades, drink beer with their tonguerors. and victoria. And the dust; the laid out with so delicate s regarded a epic. indigenous, permeating, for geomancy. Here was empire l

The Dutch colonial produce markets, despite occasional set- backs, are still very favourable. The prices prevalling at present for the three principal sorts of Superior Kanas!"

· sugar, – (Channel) and Muscovado are F1.1650, FI15.50, and Flis.30 te= |} spectively, while the sales by the V.LS.P., according to the latest re- ports, amount to about nine million culs. For the Java sugar crop, of which 90 per cent is sold by the VALS.P., the following estimates, obtained from a private source, are available:-

Channelēna Muscovado... Molassen AS Others

The crop of 1922 'amodytetto/ 29,313,479 picule, and a decline of slightly smaller average output per 22 per cent is expected, das to points above the lowest price of laat bouw" (equals 1:7337,dores). The week had stimulated more interest first factory commenced its cam in values, and inquiry became more paign in Apribs and most of the biquitous Peking dust; still chokes But no more. The little former Gen Sir Gomes da Costa, extensive, Results, however, were others are now working at full and smothers the Pekingeso and emperor who is hidden away some the un-Pekingeso, and exasperates where in the still-forbidden.nooks KCMG, the well-known Por far from being commensurate with capacity. The Manchester

Guardias Commercial the one as little as it excoriates the of the un-Forbidden City is of the -tuguera military leader now in the extent of the negotiatione.”

Amsterdam Jade Street" 16; yet full-but gone on without his Peking, has a reception, given at the Bureau of Chost of the new inquiry was op Correspondich

him.

other.

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of Cathay, bld and new-but most

ly new that your well-dollared

American Cannot resist,Lantera

Foreign Affairs by Gen, Ho Peng Bing, Military Governor of Shang

China account, and if thriced not only fancy.ploths, but olar white and grey shirtings, jeans, drills, and

hal and Sunkiang, and Mr. Hep alastings. As a abade below and

That he had erected an open-uan Commissioner of Foreign rent valah, it appeared, a good bus

Streets its shops: yet gay with air restaurant on Crown Lind, Affairs those lamps, lanterns and shades near the old." Happy Retreat and

that

hey could have been done, Að

ing to the laufemail, theerd in Cháng bays: started woll – ind

are so compelling and had fitted it up with 52 chairs) 37 It has just been decided, as an and are so mildly compelling tables with a few sheds was the nounced in naval intelligence, spite of the unsettled conditione When fetched home 8,000 miles, charge brought against a Chinese that Prince George shall not reloit the interior, Buctio

Embroidery Street" still intrigues named Liu Lung by Mr. F. H. his ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth both the shorn and the uashara Dillon, of the Public Works Dehut shall be attached to HMB lamb the fatter being the more

partment, before Mr. RE, Lindsell "Excellent" for atime" "This "chip" desired. The Lama Temple still this moraing Dillon said that is really the school of gingery op holds the palm as the city's most defendant had no right there at Whale Iolanda at Portsmouth and captivatingly photographical spot all, Answering a query by the Prince George, 14 to undergo Peking is still undoubtedly the Magistrate. Mr. Dillon said the de course of distraction there ekr mdst Interesting place in the whole fendant did not even have a pornit Ving -CRA

world for a tourist to come to. Yet to use a piece of Grown Land, to prepare

there is a profound contrast be higher up. Defendant was hand-rang of sween the Peking of 1900, when nai $25.

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