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Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 6, 1927.

LABOUR'S VIEW.

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CHINA'S CHICAGO.

Hannow a Million- Peopled City.

ENTREPOT OF CHINA:

promenade::

trees that give welcome sha

Which stand the palatial the merchantsp

have been recorded than during the whole of the previous. tion quarter notable factor having regard to the stability

of Shanghai and Singapore VALIN which characterised market

the rear at these residences are movements. Twelve months ago,

Parge gardens, wherain grow exotia keen competition for the limited!

trees. The chief banks and ship guppifes available formed the

pin offices, and aleo, the public basis of an upward movement, which culminated in a rise to 45-Hankow, to-day a source of an buildings are also upon the Bund 8d. par pound for "spot" quota-xiety to every trading European A lofty and noble river wall. Bas tions. A big contrast to the low nation occupies a dentral place: In the Rights of stane, steps, aceto level reached by the commodity a the midst of China's teaming popu-ing soft, from low water, the Yar week or so ago, and, although lations. Its geographical position the rolling majestically pasta It. various reasons have been advanc-alone makes it supremely important. must be confessed that the British ed to account for the spell of de- It is the million people" city. It Concession has now the appearance pression, we are inclined to think has been described as the Chicago of having seen better days, bus that it owed its origin to Malaya of China. A recent traveller of die-despite the inroads made upon the where liquidation, the outcome of tinction has foreseen that in afty public purse by the war and the restriction of credit facilities, has years time Hankow will be the big serious unsettlement of China, the been the order of the day. What rest city in the world. The vision British have enriched their setti the next few months will show, is not an extravagant one. Just as ment by the erection of a fine new time alone will tell

PUPILS DANCE. JOLLY PARTY AT KOWLOON BRITISH.

PRIZES FOR COSTUMES.,,

London owes its rise to pre-emin-Customs house, completed in 1922. ence over all other English towns Its lofty tower, rising 132ft, and to its site on the banks of the navi principal colonnade face the Bund gable Thames, so Hankow acknow-The fact that the Customs house ledgea ita debt to the Yangtae River, has been reconstructed on such ex- a vast food of water which flows tensive lines, says, the Commiss from its Sources down a course of sioner of Customs in a recent an 8,000 miles. Hankow stande 600 nual report, "may be taken as an miles inland from the sen, yet ex-index of the confidence reposed in The annual fancy dress dancecept in the low-water season in the future development and prosper. which is arranged yearly at the winter and spring, can be reached ity of Hankow as the foremost trade holiday season for pupils of the by ocean-going steamers of deep centre of mid-China,"

The foreign settlements are extra- Central British School Kowloon, draught. took place there last night, the The Yangtee River has made territorial, and the British, French, school rooms being gally decorat- Hankow what it is, the chief entre- and Japanese have their own muni- ed for the occasion. The dance pot of mid-China. Next to the alpal councils and police. There was a great success, the costumes Yangtse, China's longest navigable is. a large Roman Catholic church, worn being original in design and river is the Han, and Hankow, and smaller Protestant and Greek The placed whore the Han flows into churches, the last built by Russlan of excellent execution. dancing, which commenced at 5.30 the Yangtse, enjoys both channels residents. In what was the Rus- and finished at 8 p.m. was also of for trade. The larger river almost alan concession are several ten- a high order.

exactly divides. China north and brick fastories owned by Russians,.

Many parents took the oppor-south, and in the wide-spreading which to-day wear a dismal appear- tunity of attending as spectators hinterland of Hankow immense pro ance, all having been closed early in at the happy gathering. The vinces served by numerous triba-the war, and none have been re- Headmaster, Mr. GF. Night-tary rivers have populations est-opened. But in the British Con- ingale was largely responsible for mated at 200,000,000. Therein la cession especially there has been re-" There only remains one clause the excellent arrangements made. the sources of Hankow's vast trade. building since peace was re-estab-, in the Labour Party statement Others present included Mrs. From the Bund one may look dowa lished, and many houses and go-

Nightingale, Mr. A. E. Wood at low water to the Yangtse flowing downs have sprung up. to be considered the suggestion (Director of Education), Mr. E. 40ft.. below. The great river will The tea trade, atill Alls a very im- that the British Government Ralphs (Inspector of English rise in early August to All the whole portant part in the activities of should offer to withdraw British Schools), Mr. and Mrs. Joseph, of the channel to this height, and Hankow, but it is not what it was. warships from Chinese territorial Mrs. B. Wylie, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- or at least four occasions in this Indian teas have very largely dis

tin and Mrs. Owen.

century it has overflowed the Bund placed those from China in the Prizes for the best costumes Yet Hankow, subject to these English market, but much more Waters upon an agreement in re gard to the security of the lives were awarded as follows, the pre-tremendous variations, ja built upon serious for the city has been the of British residents. That sugsentation being made by Mrs. raised mud-flat. The group of heavy decline in the exports to

Wylle...

towns for so they have become Russia, which the war effectively gestion must be ruled out as un-

1st Boy, George Arnold are frequently spoken of as the stopped, and though that trade has Hankow and its now been partially resumed. It has tenable. It is easy to talk of an (Russian); 2nd. Boy, L. Brown three cities.".

Girl, N. suburb Hanyang face each other been very slack of late years, Han agreement for the security of Bri- (Superstition); 1st.

Bryson (toy soldier); 2nd. Girl, across the Han River, both on the kow, however, has important in tish lives but with how many N. George (well pressed); Special north bank of the Yangtse, and dustries of its own. Chinese cot- contending factions is an agree-prize, V. Lekovich.

Wuchang, a populous centre on ton cloth mills established by the ment possible. Moreover, if the There were nearly 90 pupils the, southern bank, looks across the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, and fron- mile-broad torrent of the main river works at Hanyang, have developed presence of British warships in present.

Mr. George Bond was at the upon both. From an eminence in into important enterprises employ- Chinese waters "is not a suficient

piano, and Miss Maud George Hangyang, picturesquely known asing some 4,500 mien; Hanyang iron. deterrent against violation of the (one of the pupils) organised the the Pagoda Hill, the three towns competes against the Steel Trust's right of all foreigners to protec-tea, which was served during the lying beneath may be seen. They product in the American market.

festivities.

are situated just where an irregular Apart from these Government enter. tion, how could the withdrawal of

range of low-lying hills crosses a prises, cotton and silk weaving en- such warships improve the post-

deal-level country east and west gages many Chinese, and there are tion? There are other factors in

Beyond them is an immense treeless wagon works, hamp mills, four fiat, so little lifted above the river mills, and tanneries. The Nanyang. the situation likewise to be con-

that the scattered, hamlets which Brothers Tobacco Company have a sidered, but these the Labour

dot its surface are, without excep-large factory British Customs. Party statement conveniently

MR. ISAKO'S MAGICtion, raised on mounds, which are statistica for 1924, the latest now probably artificial marks of a now available for reference, show that ignores.

distant age. There alone in sfety the net volume of our trade for the and not always that." To the port was that year the highest since right of the Yangtae one sees encr- the war.

Perhaps It is difficult to estimate the mous lakes and lagoons.

Admirable Restraint...

B

CIRCUS FUN..

TURNING A MAN INTO A

A.CHICKEN!

Prior to leaving for Canton, Isako's Circus will give a special programme at Kowloon.

This Saturday will be observ.

Vanishing Ahimalë.

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A British wireless message ed as the 50th anniversary of the tidal gauges which have been Chinese population of Hankow, from Rugby states that "admira- Mr. Isako's connection with kept by the British since they first which probably overtops a million. tion is generally expressed, even circus life. A matinee will be went to Hankow in 1861 give the "The three cities, considered as į by many Chinese, at the discipline given at 3 pm, and another at best indication of what the vast one port, possess a greater number and restraint displayed by the the same time on Sunday. Chil, flood of the Yangtse is. In the of water craft than any other port naval forces during Monday's dren will welcome the opportuni-year 1911 and 1912 respectively in the world, but thousands of these. rioting, no shot being fired, alty as they will be allowed to ride the river rose 45ft. and 46ft, above are sampans and leaky native boats, Hankow Chinese city is new-fif though missiles were showered the horses, ponies, donkey and the minimum for those yearney

For a considerable period after teen years. It met a terrible fate. A.Labour Party statement."

upon them." Thus once more are other animals in the circus stable. issued at Home relative to China British Naval traditions fully up- The evening performances will, the Yangtae was opened to foreign in the rebellion of 1911, which trade, the British Concession, at overthrew the Manchu. Dynasty.. The British have again as usual be at 9:15 p.m. marks a refreshing departure held.

A feature of the change in Hankow was the only one. Our com-For days and nights it was hom from the average communication amply proven to the Chinese that

no isolated outrage by the ex-programme will be the series of mercial houses at Shanghai first barded by a steady rain of shells emanating from this quarter. For tremists of any contending factor conjuring tricks and other feats established branches there. It ex- from guns placed on the low hille; once acrimony and denunciation will force upon them a policy of of mysticism by Mr. Isaxo him-tended for about half a mile along humerous fires broke out in the the river bank. It has been con- closely packed areas, and a strong siderably enlarged, and since 1895 wind rushed the flames along, pull- of British policy are omitted. In-armed intervention or a resort to self,

violence to counter violence. stead there is the first really sin-What does concern the British The splendid condition of the France, Russia, Japan, and Gering them out to a great length, cere attempt of constructive Naval authorities is the adequate animals trained by Mr. Isako is many also have acquired Conces lighting up the sky and the whole nature-an attempt that need not protection of British subjects and a tribute to his experience and sions, so that to-day the foreign countryside for miles round: Still isolated fondness for animals. As a settlement extends for over two on burning Hankow the guns, pour- the ugliest not necessarily be belittled because

Incident imaginable can make magician, however, Mr. Isako will miles along the water frontage ed in shells. What the loss of life practically all that is suggested them deviate from the make his pets vanish before the There have been two breaches made was will never be known. Barely has been or is being, incorporated performance of that duty. The eyes of the public. This toystery in it-of some significance at this one-third of the native city, and that in British policy. The British responsibility for the outbreak by will also extend to include human moment. The Russian Concession badly damaged, remained standing, chicken Chinese authorities, and placed ance of the race all has been re- Government has from the outset the mob in Hankow resta on the beings as Mr. Isako promises to was in 1920 taken over by the local With the characteristic persever

shoulders of the Chinese author-transform a man into observed the strictest neutrality itles in power there. The latter Mr. Isako has already given under the control of the Chinese built, and with its great trade between the contending forces in undertook to prevent further dis- these performances before pro-chief-of-police at Hankow. The Hankow has, to-day auousing pro-

turbances and, merely as a con minent personages and he will, German Concession lapsed with the blem China, It has repeatedly en

ciliatory measure, the British on Saturday, bring in his full Great War, and has not been renew- deavoured to put British relations. Naval forces were withdrawh repertoire of Egyptian and ed, so the foreign settlement has lost something of its homogeneity.

Buenos Aires reports tha with the Canton Government on a from the Concession to vessels in Indian magic.

All the other "stars" in the The railway to Peking runs at the

gentine intellectuals emb Wednesday of last friendly footing. And it has had the river. That act in itself

acquits the British of any destre Circus will also have new items rear. no lot or part in the importation to provoke the Chinese wantonly to offer in this special pro- In summer, with high water and of German and Austrian

ocean-going steamers, coming up to sities of arms to China. Co-operation It accords with all that has been gramme.

Booking is at the Anderson the Bund to load the trade of the with other Powers for absolute spoken and written of British

The China Mail has receive special over the world, the Concessions effective prohibition of the im- policy within recent months. And Musk Co. It should be noted interior of Chins and distribute t

held a catalogus of an exha It gives the lle direct to the that Saturday's fo

a grand show, their busiest activity. The at the Royal Academy portation of arms would always Soviet emisaries who are striving matinée, and Sunday

climate then is not pleasant. Sum-posters designed for the be rendered pull and void so long to set China against Great Brigala matinée..

mex: at Hankow is hot and damp Marketing Board. The tain and the other Treaty Powers. as Russia continued to sand huge

and severe cases of typhoid and tion was held to give the del malarial fever are not unusual, gatas sasenk in London Lo consignments. The Labour Party statement is belated, to say

The atmosphere is thick and stay nant, add there are swarms of mos-

of wh the least, when it suggesth

9toes Autumn and winter the that the British Government

to hand from Singapore, the HE the Governor has consented seasons approximate to our own-

but with should not be deterred from pro Malayan rubber exports for to hold his annual inspection of the are more arreeabl

the river and reduced ceeding with a policy of recon December Were 87,000 tons as St. John Ambulance during the same distribute the Corps. cillation and justice to China be against 80,0

for Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 6.10 p.m. Cause some other Government month in 1926, the expor

0,000 the Murray parade: the may refuse to march therewith a tons The submission of the British Memorandum to the other Tren

ks volumes for

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