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TROOPS CROSSING YANGTSZĘ.

16,000 DESPATCHED.

Northerners Also Making Active Preparations.

across the

MINOR NAVAL BATTLE ALREADY TUIGHT....

the Pcking forces.

From Swatow comes news of an improvement in the situation owing to the approach of military and naval help from Canton. Up- country, however, atrocities are still being committed by the Com- munists and, in one locality, the women have thrown themselves

into wells 'rather than face the Red terror.

SWATOW IMPROVEMENT.

ESTABLISHED

1845

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928.

IN MANCHURIA.

YUNNAN AFFAIRS.

Hardships Caused By the Tailifu Captured by Govt.

Fengpiao.

SABOTAGE THREATENED.

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Chang Tso-lin Demands From Provinces.

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sabotage, whereupon the manage-

Troops

SAFETY OF ROADS.

Adventures Of French Legion Deserters.

Christians Attacked.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

TWO FINISH.

Grand National. Result.

TIPPERARY TIM.

Record Field Of 42; American Enthusiasm.

London, Yesterday. The result of the Grand Na- tional was:-

N. LAZARUS ·

Bony Kane's Onls European Optician.

(Established Ove. Party Years). Manager;-RALPH A., COOPER, M.A.0.A., Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam.

(Personal Attention).

OPIUM.

INCIDENTALS OF SMOKING.

GETTING THE HABIT.

De Quincey's "Wonderful Visions” Discredited. *

HOW THE ADDICT IS MADE.

[By Li Chung-yin."]

Two Court cases this week bring the topic of opium into pro- minence. At the Magistracy, one of the crew of a Douglas ship was fined over $100,000; and at the Supreme Court there has been the Lobo v. Lee Hysan libel case in connection with a petition to the Macao Government,

A Bill to amend the Dangerous' Drugs Ordinarice has come up before the Legislative Council, following a decision by the League of Nations at Geneva. Some of the clauses which are to strengthen the Drugs Ordinance are based on the Opium Ordinance.

"ROLLING A PILL.”

Mukden, Mar. 21. [From Our Own Correspondent.) though the Fengpiao (Man-

Yunnanu March 23. churian Treasury inte) has, for sevorn} weeks remained pretty The affairs of the province are

Tipperary Tim (100/1) .. stable at about 27 to the silver progressing antiafactorily and a Bixteen thours, in two batches, have been shipped dollar, its unpopularity has not great improvement has taken Billy Barton (33/1) .....

Forty two ran; a record field. sted by the Nationalist Government evidently decreased and further adjustments place.

Tailifu was captured by the Only above two finished. seem necessary before equilibrium as the first move in the nest threat against the Peking Government.is reached. On March 10, the Muk Government troops on March 16. This year it was one of the Of this number, 10,000 have not gone very far but the other 6,000 den Arsenal workmen are reported The road. between Tailifu and Li- most thrilling and most sensa- to have demanded to receive 70 per kinng is reported safe, and yester- tional races ever witnessed at are destined for an assembly pollet in rear of the main base.

Meanwhile, the Northerners have not been idle. Whereas the cent of their wages in large dolints day Dr. Rock and the American Aintree. There was a huge cos- and only 30 per cent. in fengpino. ex-Consul. Mr. Hagen, leff with a mopolitan crowd, including the King and Queen of Afghanistan, Nationalist reinforcements are moving-up. the western sector of the This remand being refused by the strong escort for Likiang.

Mr. Chamberlain, the new as well as thousands of Ameri- front, 3,000 handits have taken a'thinor navelport from the National management, the men threatened American Consul; will arrive cans, some of whom telephoned ists. These bandits are believed to be acting in conjunction with ment offered 66 per cent. in silver, shortly to take over his duties. direct to America the news of the American Horse. Billy Barton, which offer is, however, said to have Tang San (cousin of "the late who fell at the last fence when been rejected by the workmen.Governor), who has been a thorn leading, but was remounted.

It is not intended in this article to deal with the technical Goods Trade Revision,

in the side of the Goyment in At one

of the obstacles two aspect of the opium question. Within the space permissible, it is Mukden, Mar. 21:

the west, is reported is being dozen horses were held up owing hoped to give a little information about the lesser known incidentals Preliminary negotiations for the about to leave the province and to loose horses dashing to and fro revision of the existing goods proceed to Japan. He is now at in front of the fence. There were of opium smoking as it is done in South China. traffic agreements between the Yurgchang,, which is south-west no casualties. Following the Lin- South Manchuria Railway Co, the of Tailifu, and General Chang 'coln, this result was a wonderful Chinese Eastern Railway, and the Chung is pursuing him, and the turn-up for the bookmakers, but Ussuri Railway have been recently only way he can leave the pro-at least there is one happy backer opened at Harbin and are reported vince is through Burma. It re- in London who coupled the two First of all, for the benefit of and at the same hour each day- to be progressing favourably. The mains to be seen whether he will winners at £1,000 to half a crown. non-Chinese who have heard of continuously. Those who cannot Wuhu, Yesterday, Improved.and the tension has abat-latest through freight protocol, be able to effect his escape.

In addition to sending thou- the fallacy, it should be stated do without opium have smoked it, Six thousand Nationalist ed. From up-country, however, it signed in 1926, allota. 45 per cent. The road to Tongchuan and sands of words of description by that there is no truth whatever so regularly that doing so has be troops have left this port, for is still reported that places are of the goods-volume carried by the Chaotung is reported safe for tru-wireless and telephone the Ameri- in de Quincey's fairy-tale of the come a part of their system of Pukow (which is on the north being over-run, by the Communist Chinese Eastern Railway to be velling, and the two places named cans "did" the National in sump-wonderful visions attached to living. As with other drugs, will bank of the Yangtze River, op-hordes.

shipped via. Vladivostok and 55 per are reported safe for foreign retuous style. It is estimated that opium smoking. At least there power plays an important part if posite Nanking, the capital) and

cent. via Dairen. The change in From a village near Wailoy

no fewer than 10,000 have come is no glorious dream to be derived 'un addict wishes to stop smoking. then up the Tientsin-Peking Rail (which fell into the bands of the construction of several

the situation brought about by the

over to witness the Na-as an after effect from smoking There are a few who have smoked way to Pengpu. British Naval Swabue Soviet), it is learned that

new rail-

WET WEEK END?

tional and the boat race, many the drug at the present time; for several decades, whose physi- Wireless,

on special trips allowing only a there may have been fanciful cal resistance to the effect of the [Note: Pengpu is on the Rail-the womenfolk preferred to throw

flights before the potency of pre-drug has seriously declined with way, leading up to the western themselves into wells rather than

some rain, is the onlar weather. The Mersey le full of luxurious pared opium was drastically re-age, and yet they have stopped.

N.E. winds, fresh vercast,few hours' stay in England. sector of the front. The eastern undergo the atrocities perpetrated

Money For Peking,”;

linera, which served as hotels and duced. **

the habit. On the other hand, Mukden, Mar. 22. sector in crossed by the Grand by the Reds.

there was the new air service Prepared opium is sold for there are some whose craving for Canal, running up from. Tain-

Generalissimo. Chang Tao-lin-fa

from Croydon with five planes, smoking in Hong Kong, Macao the pipe is such that they are kiangpu and is nearer the coast. It is generally agreed that Can-reported as having ordered the

giving a 400 miles flight in return and in Kwangtung province, un- driven to anything imaginable so Pengpu is on the Hwai River, be- ton has sent reinforcements con-authorities of the Three Eastern hind the Nationalist main base at sisting of naval ships with troops Provinces to raise $20,000,000 for sidence, but in spite of this, two for £5. These left at ten in the der the control of the respective as to obtain the wherewithal for

native Christians who were sent morning and arrived back at Lon- authorities, and under varying a few pipes, veteran Hsuchowfu, over a 100 miles from on board, with the object of crush remittance to Peking: Fengtien to from the capital on this same don at 6.15.

systems of control.,

· Romance of z Bowl. FE Nanking, and about 1000 miles ing the Communists. Chinese, be responsible for $10,000,000, road were attacked and beaten at Dutton, the rider of the winner, Jumping at Conclusions. Just as with tobacco, an opium south of the Northern outposts. however, are sceptical and prefer Kirin to contribute $4,000,000 and Yanglin, which is only a little is a young Chester solicitor. But be it Hong Kong, Macao or pipe has to be "broken in, and The 6,000 men are

Yunnaneseto "wait and see." One or two Hellungkiang $6,000,000. The over 20 miles from the capital.

Reuter.

Canton, there is no opium addict seasoned. A mellow pipe costs a mercenaries from the 3rd Army Canton gunboats, together with the Civil-Governor's Yamen in Fengtien Apart from this route, all east

who can tell of those supposedly good deal of money. Some of the troop reinforcements, will take part bus ordered the Salt Administration of Tengyueh is reported as still in

refreshing symptoms which de fancy ones, which outwardly ap- in the punitive expedition, if there at Yingkow to remit their entire the danger zone.

Quincey described so graphically. pear to be practically worthless, is to be one.

collections for the year, so as to be

There must be a reason for this jare worth $100 or even $500. able to meet part of this demand.

common, if ill-founded belief. The shapes and styles in bowls Opium is generally smoked at (which form a movable part of night because that is the time for the pipe) are many and diversi- leisure. Opium smoking is a fled. The number of makers of more laborious business than such is legion. A few of the re- many imagine. It takes time and puted makers enjoy very high. for that reason, an opium amoker prices for their products. One seidom gets enough sleep. When of the most valuable makes is common he is not smoking, he is having a now almost extinct. The name of Construction, aspects of human nature was in doze a doze not because of it bore. was that of a devoted with Mr. Chang Pang-han evidence in the Hong Kong and de Quincey's visions but because mother who turned out opium. at the head. Mr. Chang Pang-Shanghai Banking Corporation he needs sleep for physical res- bowls to give her son an educa- han is at present the Minister this morning when word passed sons. A foreigner venturing into tion. When the son became a round among the Colony's army an opium den will see half the in- mandarin, he gave instructions to of Foreign Affairs.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is to be taken over by the present Mayor, Mr. Tsang Hwei-hun.

in Kiangsi and their joining the war indicates gain of prestige by Chiang Kai-shek.]

Chinese Sceptical

News of relief was received in Swatow on Wednesday, since when the panic has decreased daily.

H.M.S. "Witherington" is in port

ways, however, renders a revisión of this agreement desirable for all parties concerned.

forecast until noon to-morrow.

New Administration According to an unconfirmed A new business-tax has also been rumour, the provincial Govern- imposed, the total amount payablement is to be re-organised on each month now being $6 per April 1, and amongst the altera-

. 10,000 More,

Nanking, Yesterday. Ten thousand troops have crossed from Nanking to Pukow, on the opposite bank of the Yang-and is likely to remain till the $1,000 of capital, which is three tions are the following:- taze-British Naval Wireless,

[Note: A message published yesterday, stated that 5,000 men of the 1st Army-Chiang Kai- shek's own men--had arrived at Nanking from Shanghai, taking their field guns with them.]

Bandits Help the North.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

It is reliably reported that 3,000 bandits, believed to be operating in liaison with the Northern (ie., pro-Peking) forces In Shantung captured Haichow on March 26..

On the night of March 23, seri- ous fighting broke out between

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crisis has passed.

Changsha Communists,

Changaha. Yesterday. Communists and bandits are dis-

Amoy Situation.

Amoy, Yesterday.

Feng Yu-hsiang.

Peking, March 26. the troops of the 37th National- No military action has as yet ist Army and the local bandits, been reported, but intelligence from the Honan front reports

times as much as before-Reuter.

Korean Influx.

300.

NEW BANKNOTES.

SMALLER AND NEATER

THAN BEFORE.

PUZZLING THE FORGERS.

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the

and De-

One of the most

The Bureau of Industry and Bureau of Communications are to be amalgamated, will be called partment

ones.

7 The Watermark.

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nerves,

Mukden, Mar. 23. In spite of the hardships and turbing the east of Hunan province insecurity that the Korean land and the countryside around Chang- tenants in Manchuria have recently sha which, however, fa quiet. been confronted with, the Immigra British Naval Wireless:

tion of Koreans still continues, a (Note: Changsha is the capital steady stream of them passing daily of Hunan. It is on

through Mukden. The the Stang

daily

of shroffs that the Bank had an mates in slumber and forthwith his servants to buy and destroy concludes that they are enjoying every bowl his mother had made. The south of Hunan has been over-

issue of new notes. River, a tributary of the Yangtze arrivale number between 200 and

The new notes are for 35 the dreams which Lamb wrote A few still exist and are costly be.. Wireless Station.

(brown) and $10 (blue). They about..

cause they are rare and also be run by Reds).

Harbin, Mar. 24.

Mothers of Old Days. cause of the romance attached to The Tao-yin of Mengtsze has are easily recognisable because smaller than the old In view of the fact that the The Nationalist General Chen)

The technical aspect must be the name. been offered the post of head of they are

left to medical men. the Department of Finance.

But some Rolling a Pillan Art! Tino-yuan's army is going from has not changed but is tense. Wireless Station has been despatch- The Chinese-Jananese situation Harbin office of the North-Eastern

Those who had some handed say that opium is stimulative. In It has been stated that opium It is also reported that the Tsinkiangpu up the Grand Canal towards Halchow to reinforce the Laat night there was a clash be- ing and receiving messages to and

three posts of Tao-yin of Teng-jout to them over the counter a degree, yes, but the majority of smoking is laborious. A regular tween Chinese students and from various countries in Europe yuch, Pu-erh, and Meng-tze are seemed very pleased with the at-regular smokers say that the smoker takes from two to three Nationalist garrison hitherto at Japanese outside the Japanese and America since March 20, Mr.

tractive design! to be abolished.

main effect is deadening of the minutes to "cook" a "pill for Haichow. Reuter.

each pipe and then another min- [Note: Haichow is a port in Club at Kulangsu. the Interna Yagi, the Japanese Consul General

Foreign Legion Deserters.

Before the influence of the Ocute or so to smoke It! And it is to-day lodged a protest with tional Settlement. There was no here the north of Kiangsu, province.]

As in the $1 notes issued at A short time ago, several men; Encircling Movement.

serious result but organisations Mr. Tsal, Taoyin of this District, escaped from the Foreign Legion China New Year, the great point cident penetrated to Chinese not as easy as it sounds. One Tsinkiangpu, March 28.

to be the right needs to become dexterous to be are most excited, demanding the stating that this is an encroachment in Tongkin (French Indo-China), of the new issue is the water- homes, it used Bandits have recently been ex-arrest of Japanese residents.on the monopoly right acquired by They made their way by rail to mark with Brittania's head visi-thing for fond mothers to encour-able to prepare a pipe. The para- ceedingly active in this vicinity. Reuter.

the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha under the Yunnanfu, but when they had ble on both sides and the value age pampered sons to become phernalia and the opium is such Shwangchlao Wireless Agreement, been here a few days, a few of fin numericals) under the design, opium addicts. Their motive was that slight under-cooking or over- and demanding immediate suspen- them decided to return to Tong-The Bank's name, on the front, to keep a young man away from heating will entirely spoil the mischief. Once he had fallen into valuable portion for a pipe. In sion of the operation.-Toho. kin and surrender. The rest re-is embossed.

mained and the local Chinese There need be no dispute about the habit, he stayed at home, fact, it can be said that rolling officials helped them with funds the serial letter and number. The smoking and was therefore pre- a pill" (as it is called in America) which resulted in the complete that Feng Yu-hsiang is so short its already big roll of victims. so that they could live, until ar-old notes had the number in two vented from entanglement of is an art. And it takes months 'failure of the bandits to capture of rifle and ammunition that he The opinion is held by thinking rangements could be made for places. The new ones have the any kind. His duty to the family and months for a novice to be-ć;

the city. Over 200 bandits were killed almost immediately and a is issuing paper cartridges to his Chinese that these wholesale their departure. Those who re-numbers twice on the front and could be better carried out by his come proficient. A satisfying

rémaining in the house.

[draw on the pipe which, inciden- large quantity of weapons of war troopa N. C. Daily News." executions will do more to for-mained comprised 18 Germans, four times on the back.

How to Become an Addict. tally is usually of bamboo, is The rainbow effect in the multi- ward than to hinder the commun-two Austrians, and one Swiss, and Hankow, March 20. ist cause for, with the killing of during their stay in the capital, coloured border has been retain become an habituee than is often (made from the liquid "prepared": However, it is more difficult to impossible unless the dried pil. of the 87th Army, is still trying The most convincing example each individual, there arise scores one German died.

ed and improved, the better to

supposed. Foreign ladies who oplum) is done to a nicety and fits to effect an encircling movement experienced this year of the de of potential communists in the The whole expense of the prevent forgery: in order eventually to annihilate cided change for the better in persons of his friends and rela-funeral was borne by the foreign! The $5 notes are slightly small- have asked to see opium smoked exactlym pastor

have gone in horror, believing Souvenir Set for $5. the remaining bandits. The city local labour conditions is supplied tives. There is no doubt that community and he was given a de-ler than the $10, this intentionally that standing a few yards from An opium, set which will serve magistrate of Huaiyinhalen has by the almost simultaneous re- many of the alleged communists cent burial in the Anglo-American to facilitate distinction.

the pipe will be fatally infective, és a souvenir, but hardly for even succeeded in recovering opening a few days ago of the are convicted on the most trivial cemetery, several of the foreign

Individual constitution is the actual use, should cost from $5 more than 100 kidnapped men plants of the British Cigarette evidence.

community attending, the Rev. On the reverse, the old scone governing factor. This remark, to $10 in Paddy's Market. It and women from the bandits' Co. and of the International EX- Centon Salt Revenue. F. J. Dymond, of the Methodist of the Bank's premises is on the like others in the article, is from consists of wooden tray of cave. Kuo Wen.

port Co. While as vet neither

Peking, March 26. Mission conducting the service. organisation" will function to the It is reliably reported that the The behaviour of the comrades of new notes but, otherwise, the ap- the layman's point of view. But imitation blackwood; & lamp with same extent as formerly, the re negotiations with Canton have re- the deceased was exemplary, and pearance is altogether different. from experience it has been in a lead bottom, glass globe to con The Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes's variably found that it takes any tain the ground nut oil, wick and opening of the plants, even on a sulted in the restoration of the spoke well for their feelings and signature is litographed as Chief thing from three months and stem, and a glass chimney: limited scale. is indicative of a re- Salt collectorate to the foreign discipline, they themselves dig- turn to confidence on the part of personnel with the right to retain ging the grave and filling it. Manager. Many of the staff more to get the opium habit. bamboo pipo: a clay bowl wo the big foreign employers of la-from the revenues the expense of The remainder have now, left! share the signatura over the Why, then, is it done one needles for cooking bour in the port.

words chief accountant, so may well ask. Some suggest that made from ladies operating together with Tle, for Canton, the balance of the that one need not be alarmed at its medical properties are benes hook and knife to A slight improvement. fa the

1,000,000 annually to go towards subscriptions over the expenses situation here is evident and the no outward indications of the This is much better than the them on their departure. The issue is dated Oct. 1, 1927, opium. Because the drug deaden. tory attached

Despite the fact that there are the foreign loan services of the funeral, being handed to seeing different signatures on two ficial. Many a person with lung dross. But do not

SANTUAN MAN trouble has been told to smoke a 100 years old feeling of the people, following the long threatened communist rising settlement with Nanking. The The capital la quiet, and people but the notes were not put into ed the nerve and thus cased the exist approach of the Communista from in Hankow, the authorities con commonest comment here is that are glad to have so able a man as circulation until to-day. thewest, is now easier, British tinue their campaign of arrests the Nanking Salt and Postal General Lung Yen in charge, Navni Wireless. Ide

In short, they are a great im cure. and executions. Over the week- agreements safeguard the for- [Note General Lung Yen has provement on the old type and vill Private Information received by end, from Thursday, March 16, to eigners positions while Ignoring been incontrol of Yunnan the "China. Mallit confirms

for be very difficult indeed for for Monday, Ma

Ipolitical outlook.]

and horses was captured. Gen- eral Tan. Divisional Commander

THE REDS.

Canton Reinforcements For

Swatow.

Swatow, Yesteiay.

Better Conditions.

No Outward Indications,

has firing squad added another 84 to "N. C. Daily NewB,”

notes.

An Old Scene.

suffering, it was thou