1920-10-16 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER ISTH, 1959.

THORNYCROFT

JOHN I THORNYOROFT & CO., LIMITED, SHIPBUILDERS ARD ENGINEERS,

LONDON, SOUTHAMPTON AND BABINOSTOKK..

:

Shanghai Office 65, Szechnen Road

15 B.H.P. 30 B.H.P. 50 B.H.P. Engines in Stock

For quotation apply-

READY-TO-WEAR.”-

Golf Jackets

Made of all Wool

Tweeds.

Cut to ensure perfect fit and freedom la play:

Flannel Trousers.

Of Grey Flannel in all sizes. Perfect cut and finish.

SWEATERS, SOCKS, STOCKINGS,

R. B. ROXBURGH, Manager for China, ` HONGKONG HOTEL.

MACKINTOSH

& CO., LTD.,"

Men's Wear Specialists,

16, Des Voeux Road.

Tel, 29.

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE

DE CHINE.

FRENCH GOVERNMENT LOAN 6% 1920.

NOMINAL VALUE

PRICE OF ISSUE

100 Francs.

- 100 Francs.

Interest ayable twice a year on 16th June and 16th December.

First instalment due on 16th December, 1920.

CUBSCRIPTIONS WILL, BE RECEIVED FROM TO-DAY up to the 25th Novem

ber, 19200 free of commission and telegram charges, and the most favourable rates of exchange will be quoted for the payments made in local or any other currency.

For full details and particulars apply to the-

1620]

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,

STOCK DEPARTMENTS,

Queen's Buildings,

.6. Chater Ronit

'HONGKONG.

THE LEADING BRANDS.

MANILA CIGARS

EL PALACIO

IMPERIO DEL MUNDO.

BOLE” AGENTS : ·

THE HONGKONG CIGAR STORE CO., LTD.,

TELEPHONE NO. 161.

XMAS

HOTEL MANSIONE.

SALE.

For another 15 days only. From October 16th to 31st.

EVERYTHING SUITABLE FOR XMAS PRESENTS:

Come early!

Great Reduction.

Don't miss the opportunity 1 SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO., 14, Des Voeux Road, Central, Phone No. 2860.

11564

.

THE FAMINE - TRAGEDY. IN CHINA

TOUR THROUGH DISTRESSED

DISTRICTS/

A POIGNANT PEN-PICTURE OF

CONDITIONS.

.:.

17

INCONSTANT. "

CHANG TSOLIN'S VIEWS.. The Roku News Agency of Japan recently issued the following message from Mukden: In the course of a press, inter view, Tachin Ching T-lin discussed toples of the times...

"In the Terauchi Cahine“, however, declared Tuchun Chang

"I discerned sincere friends of China, and, therefore, advocate cultivating friendship" with

SEA EXPLORATION. ANOTHER CHALLENGER"

EXPEDITION.

A determined demand, headed by thes President, and vigorously supported on the part of the Zoological Section of the British Association" for a new" ("hallenger Expedition to disclose the merits of the deep was, was made at Cardiff on August

th

The

talked at some length with the man JAPANESE POLICY IN CHINA who had just pawned his clothes. What? when the dollar was spent. The question was waived with laughter as at a child who has asked a ludicrously obvious ques tion. Why die of course, he said. Had be no other plan? Was there nothing else to do! Again there was laughter. What PERING, October at.

el could he do? He had no food and The following third report of famine he had no money; there was no place to conditions has been received by Reuter-go: There would come what would come.

In reply to a question regarding the After returning from Shuntekľu to Kno I asked would the government help them. nssity for taking measures to promote Yi I started my trip of investigation | That question was received with aman

Sino-Japanese friennship. Tuchun Chang In advocating further invetige past. Japan's tion of the oceans, Professor Herd proper, starting almost due, can by cartment. I might as well have asked would pointed out than in the

the President who devoted from Kao Yi. On a nearly direct line the moon help them. Help from the gor policy had been a very inconstant ang mun, from Kao Yi to the Tiensin-Pukow Rail ernment was an idea so alien it had not Japan, he said at times aided the the whole of his wrighty inaugural address way I would and conditions representative oven occurred, to them. The government Monarchists and an ether the anti to the science of oceanography, said that of the famine aren, I was told. Having they only know as something represented Monarchists.

there was not a single marino animal in seen these conditions I hope I was mis by the tax collector and, the hangers-on

regard to which they felt that they knew “ informed. I hope they are unique, but if of the yamen, who contrive to get them

anything like all there was to be known, and that they filly understood its mode of is a faint hope as reports frau other into legal trouble but of" which they buy

life. Even our commonest fshes, such as regions paint at least as dark a picture, themselves with bribes.”

the herring and the cod were in some ro From Ko Yi was ward, the aspect of

At Pai Mu further on. I decided to Japan. It in: to be regretted that Janna spects unknown and mysterious. Of the need of further research into tidal pheno the country is progressively worse. For see for myself what the inhabitants are endnot understand the Chinese, The

mena there seemed to be no doubt. u stretch of five or six li there, wilb: be I saw big baskets of leaves in the court. Japanese content themselves with cultivat Brat report of the Tidal Institute of the

·weli.. There the crop is not a compleyard drying in the sun and little boyining, the friendship of ons section of. Chin University of Liverpool, publishe failure, but even there the kaoliang is "hin of grain carefully herded to be used a eas or of individuals, Thee do not care weeks ago showed that the two independent published predictions of the Liverpool and but five or six feet high, the wheat little with each portion of porridge of to promote 'n friendly understanding beides, the one issued by the Admiralty and will give a light yield, the corn is retarded. leves. Here there was not even kang,tween the two peoples. This is the reason the other by the United States Count and Such farmers as are fortunate enough to ar shaff, except in the minurity of houses, why there is always an acitation alive in Geodetic Survey, seldent agree, they' own land irrigared by wells will, however because chall costs one cent a pound. It China directed against the Japanese, Aoften differ by a foot in height; also hoth of them sometimes differ from the actual be able to retrieve themselves partly from was here, also. I was told of refugees from case in point where the Japanese bas side by as much as there feet in height," the wist who had left more than a dozen failed to understand the Chinese is the "It was evident from this report that the increased price of grains.

stato of present

affairs urgent- Where there are wells, there is at beat children at the village gates. Some of the help given to Marshal Than Chi jui by the

called

før more scientific те but a third of a crop Millet and kaqling children were found dead. others were the Japanese

search both in regard to the theory, of are two feet high and probably will not taken in to share the meagre rațions, of

the tides and also on the accuracy of obser ripen at all. Bends are scarely better, the already impoverished.

vation. Regarding hydrography, they knew tions in the great oceanic currents upon the moveluents and abundanes of migratory fishes to minke them feel the need for further and more complete investigation of the sub- and explaining tar life histories and dis eet. There was still much to do in tracing tribution and relations of marine plants and animals. They could not go far in their in-

Much of ing up againg the unknown. their knowledge of the oceaa was very i perfect; nothing was known completely.

One of the

Referring to the develonment of Man- churia and Mongolia. Thelin Chang

with the Japanese in this direction. He

وا

Cotton is about the same. It should been with whom I talked in this village | pledged his word that he will operate just enough as to the influence of varia- borne in mind that so over-populated, is told me two of his sans, one twelve and the other fourteen, had gone out four or this part of the country that at best many parts of it are not self-sustaining. It ive days before to gather roots and will criticized the propensity of the Japanese greens and had not returned. He preto monopolize the interests in Manchuria med, they had gone ekewhere, driven by and in Mongolia, thereby rendering joint hunger and the hope of food. He had Sino-Japanese enterprises miserable fait not even made an effort to find them. · As] Up, Her deelneed that Sino-Japanese be distributed at the rate of 00 per cent. for the Chinese and 40 per cent, for the

only by added industry such as spinning cotton that it comes up to the level of subsistence When the outside regions on which it depends for the imporation. of sid, he did not know where to look joint enterprises will prosper if the profit vestigations in any direction without com.

the margin it needs also have had poor crops. thus sending the price up, and the cotton on which it depends for the surplas to pay for the importation of the extra arargin fails, then it is hit at both ends And such is the case now.

for thera and did not have enough money to go travelling if he did." "A hawker cards by as I talked.

He sold meat. It

ר

It was the meme of blue, stringy stuff. an old mule, too old to be sold,' 'It was selling at five cents à catty, ba, buyers were few. I asked who bought meat if there was not enough money to buy even chaff. They said the rich.

Japanese,

Then Tuchun Chang paid a tribute to Baron Okira for the skill with which he conducted joint Sino-Japanese industrial and commercial enterprises.

TWO SUGGESTIONS.

sidential address in regard to large schemes He made two suggestions in his Pre-

for further work in oceanography, The first was that in connection either with the University College or with the National Museum of Wales there should be establish- SOME ROUND ADVICE.

ed at Cardiff a Deportment of Occanogrash- At the conclusion of his interview, the ic and Fisheries Research. That would be Mukden Tuchun reminded his interviewer a lock scheme. His other suggestion would of the necessity for the Japanese not be national as an undertaking and world merely to have a good understanding with wide in scope. It was that the time had come for another great Challenger Expedi- the authorities, but also to pay serious tion, fitted out by the British Admiralty attention to the interests of the people and and embracing all departments of the to try to cultivate amity and friendship science of the sea. Investigated by modern methods under the best expert advice and with them. This, said the Tuchun, was control. Such an expedition would requirs. necessary if joint Sino-Japanese enter long and careful preparation, So, even if the present time may seem to some in- prises are to be made a success.

opportune to press such an undertaking, if this suggestion was received with favour by veranographers it might be wise to form a preliminary committee to collect infor- mation and prepare a scheme.

In Ning Ching Hsien and the adjoining isien, Chi Chow, one finds conditions a

Here there is unrelieved their worst. despair. In almost every field are women and children with baskets ever their arms, gleaning a barvest that in good years is

It was at the neighbouring village of The food of animals. One cannot go a li without passing a wheel barrow laden with a Ying Hsien that deaths from cholers a few household effects, and perhaps u had been so numerous that eight coffin few children. In every village are empty shops, were no able to supply the demand, houses left vacant by those who have given ap all hope and fed from the ills they nad bodies were being wrapped in bamboo know to hat could not a pay rate be matting and placed outside the walis...

Next came Bi La Chia, a little bigger worse. The tragedy of such cases is the fate of the children. Many of them have to be dropped along the way, sold where place, the population being about three possible, given away if not, left on the huntred families, about two thousand Of these a fourth have gone to roadside if there is no Ahernative. Less people. trugle only by a degree is the los of the Bhansi, emigrat ing by whole households very old. They too, are left behind. If rather than individuals from each family.

From Chi Chow to the east for about one fould sense the full tragedy of these This is always a sign of the lase extremity. day's one faust go to the fairs which are diere I was told most of the people were twenty i there is a stretch of sandy soil

PROPOSED NEW EXPEDITION. held in the market towns every five days taking their cloibes to the neighbouring

Profesor J. Stanley Gardiner, president There, it is rumoured, the trade in child town of Li Shia Chunng to sell at the Pocr in good years, bare" as a desert now. ren thrives. Whether true or not I can market.

of the Section, strongly suppported the Babies were also being sold. Then an improvement is noted. nou say ns I have not ac, but I have Une woman was pointed out to me who are patches of green again and as one suggestion, and said that trading vessels been shown a letter from Tamingiu fur had had to geli two of her younger children. approaches Hsiao Chang in Tsao Chiang rather than liners should be utilised for re-

It is in this region conditions get even ther south welling of a market at which

He believed that £40.000 or v there was a designated stand for the sale worse. Here even leaves are bought, for, Hsien the improvement is more noticeable arch. of children. Certainly, everything bus as it was explained to me, the trees were Here there is kaoliang a foot and a half £80.000 would be sufficient to establish and maintain a Cardiff an Oceanographical It- children is sold. To the fairs those who nearly all on privately owzed property. have reached their last straits bring their Whether paid for or not, I saw a row of or two feet high, some beans and some stitute which would be of immense national extra clothes, disposing of them at a few trees outside one village stripped almost millet. It looks good, but there is doubt importance,

This has put the A resolution was unanimously adopted coppers per garment and trudging back clean of its leaves. Exaggerations there whether it will ripen.

urging the immediate initiation of a fur- to their native places to eke out a few undoubtedly are in the manner of auch farmers in a dilemma. Now is the time ther national expedition for the exploration" more days with these coppers. And there, too are sold the meagre hits that make that cannot be refuted. People are eating to sow seeds. If they pull the standing of the rea, and requesting the Council of up the household of the Chinese peasant. leaves; the trees, show it, but it takes only crops they will lose what little yield thers the British Association to appoint a com. I have been taken to houses where nothing minute's figuring to compute how many be it the grain does ripen. If they boose mitte to take the necessary steps to im was left but the stone k'ang on which..the | days, there are left when there will be to wait on the principle of the bird the press this need upon the Government ind

leave left to eat, RO family sleeps, a table and the Barrow bench called the pen tong.

My next stage was in the worst hsien hand and then if the grain does not ripen, Twelve li east of Nang Ching city is of all, Chi Chow, In Fel, Shu Yi, a they will have nothing at all, and it will bong Chi Tsun. I was told that the typical village, I met the tong or village be too late for winter wheat.

Nobody, he said, was starving population was four hundred families. Is headman.

times but there is evidence such as this

On

E

There

He be

the nation.

་

THE CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY

PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH THE RUSSO-ASIATĪC“ BANK.

result of the.

is probably more like three hundred. Ayet. Everybody still had something to At Haiao Chiang, a village in this halen any rate, three or four groups of villagers sell. He himself still wore a long coats where there is a foreign mission station, with whom I talked agreed that there were ho said. because by had two sons in Peking I was given more confirmation of pro not more than thiry that had enough to who sent him a few dollars each mon h live on. The others eat the usual, chal, There was still a little kaoliang to be hadfiteering. Hero the magistrate has been cotton scrd, leaves and woods. This is in though at a price prohibitive except for able to bring in grain from Shantung

It is authoritatively reported that, for the form I bave already described, either consumption of a few graide per day to to sell at little less than a dollar por catty, the purpose of preventing international a soup or a thin porridge of leaves and thicken the gruel of leaves and wild greens, while the dealers were getting two dolare controversy or dispute concerning the weeds with a bit of grain for favour, and fiere I received confirmuation of what bad Carts are loading up with cheap grain future administration of the Chiness somimes a hard and sometimes a soggy been vaguely reported before, profiteering at Tehchow and across the Shantung fine. Eastern Railway, as a cake of chaff and cotton seed mixed with It seems travelling traders are going and bringing in grain to the famine termination of the official capacity of the dry leaves to hold it together.

through the afflicted areas buying up One man to whom I talked.had just come clothes and animals at forced prices, the striken area and selling it at famine Russian Minister and Consuls in China,

prices.

there is a posibility that the Chiness back from Ning Ching. He had taken temptation of ready cash being enough to From Hsiao Chiang east to this villago Government may sign a new agreement there five picees of clothes. He had sold get a sharp bargain. The tifong also of Huo Chiu (where this is written), is with the Russo-Asiatic Bank shortly. The thery for a dollar. He had left only what told me there had been a constant stream afty. There is a marked be terment chief reasons which have prompted the he was wearing, blue coat, rousers, and of people from the east, bound-for Shans over the region further west. But it shoes. The dollar was all that stood be and the Northwest, offering to part with likely to be deceptive. When Freighing of a now Sino-Russing agreement

their children and there were starvation Green tits and

the road and selling bits here I told the care aker of the Christians fax us the administration of the Chinese an Eastern Railway is concerned are reported five in his family. He had not yet, bew of their effects to pay for their food as chapel, where I was allowed to way, that to be as follows ever, sold his furniture, he admitted. they went. Not half a dozen farm was glad to see that there were such

1-The Pan-Asiatic Bank is in a posi- Here one hundred have died from the animals were left in the village, he said, good crops around his village.

tion to furnish suficient proof or usual cause, cholera, brough's on as I all having been sold-mules for as low as came angry. Good crops 1 There would

guarantee that it is still Russian best

3 have said, by underfeeding and lowered 83 and oxen for as low as $10, $15 was be at yield of thirty he said, and

institution.. resistance. Hero 1 may say in passing the top prios. Here was emphasised also they was problematic because it was not there is not a village which has not the consequence of lack of seeds for sowing certain corn, Kaeliang and wheat, and its toll of cholers. I would estimate wheat A good rain had fallen, the soil now sanding domething at between wo the mortality at not less than five per cent, was ready for sowing, but there was to three feet, would be able to ripen be- The grain had all been fore the cold. By way of proof to told and possibly even en. Since the rainfall nothing to sow the cholera is passing but that some other saten. I naked the tifong how many of me the names of numerous families that bis people were a arying, All," he said. I had been forced to go to Bhantung and epidemic will come is inevitable.

From this village one hundred have ventured that surely there must be some elsewhere. Which proves how all things Some have sold their children and that had something. He said that, of are a matter of point of view. To me some have not. It is hard to got any murse there were åve or air families out who had just come through a harren desert accurate figures on this, Few care to self of the two hundred in his village who still land region where nothing green showed their children in their native places. had enough to eat, but that was nil. He

& bumper crop. To him to whom it re They start off with them in the dim hope look ma to his own house. In a court yard but leaves, grain, two feet high looked like that something will turn up along the way. was piled some kaoliang, about ten foot presented two thirds less It is when they are weary of trudging square in all. It was the yield of twenty necesary to sumain him and the thou and empty of slemach that they decide it ma of land,, six acres. It would give and like him that was a matter for de is better to part with the children than to forty chtties of grain. In good year spair. It is all a matter of standard, but it carry then a little further and bury them, there are 240 caftics out of a mu, that is significant that after one has seen the I naked one group with which I talked in, be had a crop of not qui e one per real famine ares anything that even looks _Br

The "Asiatic News Agency" learns that And he is amounted a rich man. green is a token of prosperity. about this. I asked how many shiklien sent.

Not What be asked, of those who owned three between here and the Tientsin Pukowa to enter negotiations with the representa

the central Government of Chips propose. of the village had been sold.-

I Have many," they said. They didn't want to and four mut

Stay comparatively woll off, part with their children. Then one old A crop of one ner cent. is not so unusual seen people here buying grain. One does tive of the Russo-asistic Bank with a view

There are wide note that further west. Also there have to the conclusion of a sew agreement, wan on the edge of the circle spoke up. around Chi Chow Had I come to buy children! I replied stretches of land absolutely barren, heen good raing in the last ten days and the aborementioned conditions, for the and-preservation of the existing situation along in the negative, but he added that he stretches where it had not even been worth farmers are Bowing winter wheat had two and if I could feed them I could while to now go parched was the soil

That they have wheat to sow... an.. addi- the Chiness Eastern Railway to the mutual have them.

tional sign of comparative prosperity, advantages of Chios and Hussin,

gone.

(Continued at foo; of next column.)

than was

2. The Russo-Asiatic Bank; will accept all the domanda or suggestions of the Chinese Government. W 3.-The-Chineso; Government recognizes the necessity of the complete resor- ganization of the inner administra tion of the Chinese Eastern Bailway as soon as possible. 4.The Chinese Government, will make

oficial declarations for the informa lion of the general, public tháp, khm dininistration of the Chinese Eastern Railway will not be affected by now or old politics and that the Russo- Chinese line will be administered thoroughly in accordance with modern commercial conditions.