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UP THE CHINA COAST

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-AN UNCOMFORTABLE HOME-COMING.

It was impossible to go by rail from Shanghai to Peking, and with railway traffic at an end there was very great difficul-

This extreme discomfort lasted some 86 hours, when the wind moderated and we were able to stand in again on a course N. 36 W., which, to anyone who looks at the chart, will show how far we had been put out of our way. We picked up at last the lights of the Shantung Peninsula, and next day came through the

risen enough to let us cross in. We crossed it drawing 13 feet 6 inches; and I was told that if the Chinese had control of the port conservancy the bar would be impassable in a couple of years, the assumption being that the Chinese would neglect the continual dredging that is neces- sary. The man who said this

THE CHINA MAIL.

CAUGHT IN A MONSOON.

ŠTEAMER'S EXPERIENCE IN INDIAN OCEAN.

PEACE IN THE PACIFIC.

U.S.. PROFESSOR'S "TREATY" SUGGESTION.

ty in getting berths on any of islands to Chefoo. We anchor- also said that the reason would steamer "Quiloa" arrived at Mel-States and an unnamed Power to!

ting a berth on a little cargo

MONDAY, 'SEPTEMBER

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Melbourne, July 27, ; The presentation on July 27, to After an exceptionally rough the conference of the Institute of voyage through being caught in Facine Relations in Honolulu, of aroused at Cremona In the first a monsoon, the British-India Line Professor James T. Shotwell's pro- collective contract under the La-

posed treaty between the United bour Charter.

The employers have undertaken ed off the breakwater, flying a not be that the Chinese would bourne to-day from Liverpool. ensure permanent ponce in the to give the workmen six days' the coasting passenger steam- red flag because of the ammuni- not wish to keep the port open. The vessel was forced to plough Pacific, brought out a wide differ- annual vacation on full pay. ships, writes Arthur Ransome tion we had on board. It was but that, in the absence of for through high seas at a low speed, ence of opinion among the delegates Workmen discharge through no in the "Manchester Guardian." again blowing a pretty hard eign control, the money for that and several of the crew had har over the possibility of war between fault of their own will receive three days' pay for each year of should northerly gale, and the sea out-purpose would disappear into row escapes from being washed the United States and Japan.

Professor Shotwell's project, 1 learnt that I have had to wait ten days or a side the breakwater was so bad the pockets of whoever was overboard

After Shortly after the vessel left the ad, Sir William Currie, in parti-

however, was unanimously endors service.

In the event of disputes arising On account crossing the bar we steamed Gulf of Aden she ran into choppycular, linked this treaty with the the parties have undertaken to fortnight for a passage on one that the Customs launch was strong enough to take it.

the winding river seas, and carly in the morning of Locarno treaties and the Covenant refer them to conciliation, and if of them, which would have unable to board us. meant giving up the visit to of the munitions we could not slowly up

We through absolutely flat country, June 29, a south-westerly was en- of the League of Nations as a for that fails, then to a provincial | Peking altogether. I therefore go inside the breakwater. rose eagerly fo the chance of get therefore stood across to some admiring the train passing close countered. Soon afterwards this ward step in promoting world tribunal, and finally to the Fas-! After Professor Shotwell cist Labour Judiciary, whose de- islands, under which we shelter-by the bank that would eventual. Increased in intensity, and huge peace. steamer which had been taken.ed and anchored for, the night. [ly take me to Mukden and home-waves dashed over the decks. The had admitted that he had Japan incisions will be absolute.

Another 24 hours was gone. wards, and was obviously still cabins amidships were flooded, mind when he drew up the treaty,

[A cable message from Rome some of the American delegates, half painted, from dry dock in Next day the sea had gone down, running, admiring also the ex- and the glass in the ports was Professor Takayanagi, head of the on April 22 stated, inter alia:— order to profit by the urgent de-and we came over and ichored treme skill with which the broken, while one of the bulk-

The "Charter of Labour" which Japanese delegation, and some mand for set transport. She outside the breakwater, when Chinese managed their small heada was stove in. The purser other delegates, declared that war henceforth will be the basis of was a good and modest little

this time the munitions were sailing craft. We made fast in was caught by one wave while in in the Pacific was practically im- labour dealings throughout Italy, ship, of about a thousand tons. taken from us into a lighter, the evening at the wharf at his cabin, and was carried out on possible. Mrs. Carrie Chapman which has been issued by the As far as I could see, the only after which we were allowed to Tientsin.

to the deck, where he managed to Catt (United States), however. Fascist Grand Council, contains grasp the rail in time to save him- maintained that so long as Japan 30.articles, setting out details of thing that justified her owner's

enter the harbour and anchor in insistence that her passenger smooth water to discharge our

self from being washed over- was over-populated and other na- accommodation was bad was that

board. On the boat deck a sailor, tions closed their gates to Japanere obligations to the Corporative ing Chefoo cargo., the cabin allotted to me was very

who was working on the lashings immigration, It was useless to make States and its organisation,"

CAMPBELL MOORE The following is a 'summary:- SIAM'S RAILWAY PROGRESS.. of a life boat, was caught by the small, and that the paint in it

The general opinion was that The Italian nation is superior în || 19, Queen's Road C. We three passengers went was still wet. There were also

same wave, and lifted from the though there seemed to be no im- power to single individuals form- deck. He was carried over the mediate danger of war in the Paci-ing part of it. It is a moral, poli- rals, and a noisy ash-shoot im- ashore in the shipping com- mediately behind my pillow. But pany's launch. Chefoo is a little I was lucky to get a cabin at all, grey and white town surrounded

rail, but, succeeded in catching and I have travelled farther and by high brown hills. There is a

hold of a rope to which he clung until the wave passed. fared much worse in the Baltic bluff above the harbour, on loan charges, and even in some without hearing any apologies which were flying the flags of the cases to pay their employees, one from steamship, companies, and British and Japanese Consulates, cannot help contrasting a state of I was well content. There were most of the town lying below, affairs brought about by two years two other passengers, an en- and the bluff dividing the town's of constant strife with the steady There were about progress made under peaceful gineer and a vice-consul, both two bays.

half a dozen steamships in the conditions in Siam,. The report of bud chess- & very young, one

harbour and an enormous fleet the administration of the State player and the other about as of anchored junks. We landed Railways of Siam for the year end- had as myself. The voyage up on the Bund, walked through ed March 31, 1926, just published, the coast was supposed to take the narrow streets, and round serves as a reminder not only of three and a half days. were carrying about a score of over the bluff to the British Con- the growing importance of the rail- ways in that country, but of their sulate, which overlooks the value as a producer of revenue. racing ponies being sent up southern bay with its bathing As the Commissioner-General puts from Shanghai for the Peking beach, the harbour being on the it; Siam's rallway policy has not meetings. These poor beasts travelled on deck, and it seemed northern side. Chefoo is an ex- opened up the country and en- what can be done inlarged the volume of trade thereby, to, me extremely cruel to make China on a basis of mutual good- but has also proved to be an excel- them travel in this way at all. will between Chinese and for- lent investment for the Government. We also carried a large mixed

eigners. There is no Connees King Rama VI died in the year cargo, of which about 400 tons

sion. Chinese sovereignty is under review, and in the fifteen

NO

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ample of

hear.

Chefoo.

After reading' so much about the

chaos of the Chinese railways, the deterioration of tracks and rolling stock and their inability to meet

amounted to more than 135 million

For nearly an hour the vessel was hove to, being unable to make any headway, and then for 24 hours she was able to make only slow progress. The rough wea ther continued until Melbourne was reached.

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fic, work should be begun imme-tical and economic unity, with diately on "peace insurance." Australian delegate, M. F. W.istoric realisation in the Fascist UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS Eggleston, advocated the complete State. Unions of employers or abolition of fighting craft and workmen are free, but only the naval bases i. the Pacific area...

organisations legally recognised are permitted to represent em- ployers or workers in the indus- try concerned. The Magistrature of Labour is the organ whereby the State intervenes to regulate labour controversies in connection with existing regulations or new conditions.

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FATHER'S VENGEANCE,

Eight Nuns Killed.

Madrid, Aug. 6. "El Sol" publishes a terrible story of a father's vengeance for his daughter.

scrupulously observe working hours. After a year's uninter- rupted service the employee has the right to an annual paid holi- day,

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In the event of any undertak-! ing changing hands, workmen pre- serve their rights under the new

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Collective labour contract ex- tends its benefits and discipline to home workers. Unions must aim constantly at increasing the

were for Chefoo and the rest for undisputed, and the place is run years of his reign the total receiptspected that the machines will has also been set up, under Soviet tion is permissible only when pri- ! Tientsin. We sailed in the early by a municipality, and, as farticale, and the net amount paid in reach the north-west coast of Bolsheviks have succeeded in pre- political interests are involved;} morning, and at the mouth of as one could see, run very suc- to the treasury was over 74,700,000 Western Australia about the be- the Whungpoo were met by a tug cessfully. Perhaps the crisp air ticals. At the end of the year un- ginning of June, 1928. They will and a lighter from which we took and bright sunshine after the der review the total length of lines remain approximately one month on board about 120 cases of storm, the rain, the leaking open to traffic was 1,599 miles, at Point Cooke. cartridges and hand-grenades decks, and the smell of wet while the capital account amount- These large twin-engined flying for a foreign Power in Tientsin.paint in the cabin helped to pro-ed to fully 160 million ticals. The boats cannot be brought ashore which the Sout of the way in tion, must contain precise dis-

A Gale.

duce a physical state predisposed gross receipts were 16 million ticals, easily at their stopping places, As soon as we had got outside to the reception of good impres- being 2.2 millions more than in the and arrangements are being made the Yangtze we

met & north-sions. But the Consul, with previous year. A considerable sum to put down moorings at the vari- ous ports of call. The proposed soon be whom I had a few minutes talk, is paid each year into a Renovation easterly blow which

Fund, but after deduction of over came a pretty decided gale. The spoke with regret of his ap 800,000 ticals for that purpose, the parts of call in Australia will in sea was described as "G". on the proaching departure, and with net profit to capital on the whole clude Napier Broome Bay, Beaufort scale. It would have affection of the local Chinese. system came to 5.62. per cont. as Broome, Port Hedland, Carnar- been nothing to a liner, but for Chefoo was the first place I compared with 4.178 per cent. In yon, Geraldton. Perth, Albany, this little couster it was quite visited in China in which I did the previous year. One has come Israelite Bay, Murat Bay, Adel- bud enough.

relations She pitched and not

between to expect'a betterment of the post-aide, Melbourne, Sydney, Bris- The railways bane, Gladstone, Townsville, Cook- rolled, and her pitching and English and Chinese made the toin year by year.

have been under Siamese control for town, Thursday Island, Elcho rolling were not well harmonised, subject of bitter complaint.

ten years now, and in all that Island and Port Darwin. The that the result was

The Taku. Bur

period they have made marked pro- cruise is being carried out pri- a sort of corkscrew. motion ac- We had to get back to the ship.gress The Commissioner-General companied by violent jerks. The She had finished discharging (Prince Purachatra), who is now marily to gain information con- terning the working of flying Consul gave in at once and took cargo and presently went outside also Minister of Commerce and

boats on a mobile basis away to his bed. The engineer and the breakwater and anchored Communications, has just left on a from a fixed base. did not like it, but retained our again, and once more took in health trip to Australia and New appetites and played chess after those cases of ammunition, which Zealand. meals, carefully fielding the by now

we heartily disliked. board when roll or pitch sent it The wind had dropped, and as sliding excitedly across the table. soon as the last case was on By wedging a little table against board we steamed away in a my bunk with portmanteaux and smooth sea for Tientsin, at the wedging a typewriter on the other side of the Gulf of Pechili. table with books, I was able to In these conditions the little write a couple of articles, but I steamer made eleven knots, and cracked my skull a good one in next morning we anchored off companion way, and the Taku bar, with two hours to was once thrown backwards wait before the food tide had headlong, taking the skirt off my elbows. The Chinese stable- boys were all sick, but some of the sailors did what they could for the ponies. The crew, in Chinese fashion, had traded their sleeping quarters to Chinese pas- sengers and dossed, cooks and boys, in a compact mass on the pantry floor, others in odd cor- ners about the alleyways. Wind and sea were too much for the little steamer, and her speed fell off, from eight knots to six, to five, to three, to one, until the mechanical log was hardly regis- tering. In order not to let the deck cargo take charge or lose the unfortunate ponies board, the captain altered course and headed her straight into the sea. We ware moving so slowly

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over-

that we were practically hove to, though progressing towards the north-east. We had plenty of sea-room, but no one had a very precise idea of our position as the repairs and hammering' in' dry dock had caused a consider- able and as yet unascertained deviation of the compass. The smell of white paint made' the cabina almost untenable. After two or three hours' work in mine my eyes were sore, my throat burning, and my head as if stuff- ed with cotton wool.

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workers. Unions must aim con- A convent pupil saw a man stantly at increasing the work- assault a nun in a Madrid con- man's technical capacity and vent. Though warned to keep morals. Labour exchanges must silent, she told her parents, but give preference to Fascists.. was maimed, ill-treated and lock- The Fascist State proposes to ed in a room when she returned Improve accident and maternity to the convent. Her father, hear-insurance as well as general in- ing no news of her, searched the aurance against illness and on- institution, aided by police. The employment.. In collective con- girl's plight so distracted him tracts the creation of mutuai that he ran amok with a revolver, funds for the sick will be estab killing eight nuns and wounding fished with contributions by em- two. A newspaper censorship ployers and employees.] precludes further details being given.

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