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THE BANDIT OUTRAGE

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REAL RETRIBUTION NEEDED. From Peking and Tientsin Times (British):-

this latest outrage. Give a man'a rope THE TALES OF A CAPTAIN, lung enough and, it is said, he will hang himself. Is it too sanguine

hope that

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Some one spoke of the Dalai Lanu.

the thunderbolt thus launched near Lin-

Albert R. Carman, owner and at one time cheng will

the beginning of prove death-knell 1 While the editor of the Montreal Daily Star, who re militarism's Chihli leaders are supposedly preparing cently visited the Far East has written the against surprises by Feugtien troops, the following article concerning a well-known provinces within their domain are infested | Indo-China skippery - with bandits. Where is the sense of pre-

Yes," said the Captain, he was a very' portion of those who set up to protect the

British Government compelled him to crims There has got to be real retribution ¡ior | country and labour for the welfare of the üble man. We had him on this ship when the this terrible affair at Lincheng and its Republic? Charity begins at home, alle binck water deadly punishment for who does not play for safety first? Yes. dreadful after-math, the torture and con. Anement in the most primitive conditions those who ought to devote their time. of scores of men and women, The Chinese energies to the preservation of law `au have got to be made to realize the enor

order within their immediate" jurisdiction Unless the mity of this occurrence Chinese authorities show by their comluct by exterminating the bandits and salties:cate before he left us in this matter that they are determined to brigands in their own provinces there to

fritter their resources and embark on a satisfy forsign opinion, and what is more perlitions into regions beyond their control. do indred satisfy it, there will beaniess, therefore, the military leaders united demand among all foreigers in China for protection by their own Things cannot be allowed to drag on as they have been doing of late, without the provision "of more adequate safeguards, and if we cant get them, from, the Chinese, we shält have to get them from

our own governments.

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a priest of his persuasional go to Hong- Kong to minku his submission after the Younghusband affair. He know no English when he came on board, and, of course, I know no Thibetan, but we were able to communi-

Wait till 1,show you, explain the theory of re-incarnation," and he Captain, "the diagram he drew for the to rushed into his cabin to get it. The diagram something like the crenellations on the top proved to be a series of keep alentations of a medikoval wall. The Dalai Lama had oatsaid that each of our incarnations was spent at the button of one of these identations where the soul could see the heavensverhead but could not catch even, a glimpse of its other incarnations.

concerned will adopt a complete change of tactics and effectually stam banditry within their provinces, as well as effectively disband their superfluous troops, the mace of brigandage will not he suppressed. In the circumstances the duty of the Government is clear as day light. Let the Government not shirk its

An ingenious illustration of a theory which looks less fantastic if you will ro gard it broadly as an attempt to answer the problem of the origin of life.

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This is not the time for giving voice to north for nothing at all. leaving their own

Whether not the provinces at the mercy of shrieking hordes paying. Neither is it time for slushy

The sentimentalism. of eat -throats and murderers, humiliation is that of foreign ladies turn. Peking Government has the best of inten- ed out of their berth in their night-tions toward foreigners within her borders, majus that the Peking Government cau

PROMPT SERVICE. Another day we were talking of pirney-mercial centres of China and abroad. dresses and made to trump barefoot across and would like to protect them, the fact

no protect them. The Government is those long, indolent, smooth, sunny days

Attractive rates for all kinds of Deposits- ountry till they drop from exhaustion. For this climax the misguided suavity of the American Government and the powerless to control the "generals" and on the Bay of Bengal. The stoat little cool breeze under her awnings, and there

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then insist on our passenger boats taking foreigners, that this incident is so more the sult of the considered wishes of

It seemed like a tall story-piracy in either the Chizess people or the Chinese NEED OF AREORGANISED POLICE what precautions they can."

these modern times and almost under the Government than were certain other events

gaus of Hongkong, But the very day no during the last fine months. Duo recom-

From the Far Eastern Times (British); sailed up through the maze of rocky islands pense for what has happened shuuld be asked, as well as adequate protection against similar incidents in the future. The Lincheng incident suggests a good that dot the sen highway from the south to But there must be no bullying presentation many reflections, the first of course being Hongkong and enterol, her magnificent to be done to harbour, the regular passenger steiner of demands or table-thumping insistance the enquiry what is on foreign "right and no resolutions by make such incidents impossible in the from. Hongkong to Macao (one of the inest Everybody who has trapopular tourist side trips) was actually of an armed foreign commercial or other bodies calling future.

this in spite and people killed for such ations. A careful investigation | ;sfied on the Chinese railways knows that pirated on its outward trip and several should be made, and then a statement pre-chort of danger to life and property, there

The pirating was done by a gang pared of what the Legations involved i are very serious deficiencies in the detailed guard on board to prevent precisely such

It would be which land shipped on burti as passengers. sider it fair that the Chinese Government management of the lines. should do. There should be firinnes. But difficult to name a line in the country, The feminists will be delighted to learn that theat there also should be dignity and courtesy.except lines directly under foreign control they were led by a woman! It is one of

duties of the Captains of on which there are not swarms of soldiers the

and affable to be this trip the THE PENALTY FOR LINCHENG.

travelling without paying any fare, with- Macso steamers nut consideration for the rights of with the passengers. From the N... Daily News (Shap those who have paid their fares, na in captain found it very easy to be chatty charming Chinese lady defiques of every elementary principle of and affable with

Was making the hai):

The Lincheng outrage may set provo a hygiene. The soldier-swarms are but one in silk trousers who

ainst his blessing in disguise. It will have been aspect of the fact that there is a strong journey: hat as they neared the coast and bought at the cost of much loss and suf- force available for the enforcement of the were passing à tempting inlet, the Chinese for fering, even of death, on the part of many rules and regulations by which the traffic lady suddenly thrust a revolver against

operations The foreigners and Chiness. But, speaking is supposed to be governed. The present breast and blew a whistle as an albic BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL for those foreigners, we are sure that they railway police are quite inadequate to their her band to begin will not grudge that price if, in retura, task. A much more energetic ami ter captain was still in the hospital when we this most unhappy country may thereby ful force is needest. A railway policeman, left, but the silk trousere lady and her called upon to order a ticketless soldier piratical friends had vanished utterly into win back to pence and orderisi government.

from a train, merely shrugs his shoulders the swarming population of Southern China. After that I had less dilleulty in be For at this juncture,, the foreign, com

He has neither the force mianity, deeply and justly incensed as they prases on,

have no merely selfisir alms in exmeting blinself nor the backing from others, lieving, in retrospect, the captain's pirate reparation. For every foreigner that has that will enable him to do his duty. Ho

And these are typhoon waters Buffered loss and indignity at the hands of knows this; the soldier knows this; every- outlaws during the past two years, ther body knows it. That, however, is but a

mild instance. Tuching and their lieuten captain had been through several, including are ten thousand Chinese, men, women and children: And to these alesanta do an a big scale what the private that famous one that hit Hongkong, lifted victims wo foreigners have a direct res-soldier does on a small. He unlawfully sailing ships bodily up on the Bund and caught him suddenly on deck, ponsibility not only in the present affair occupies one sent they equally unlawfully unrooted houses along the slopes of the Peak. the wind immediately but for others like it in the past. China commandeer whele trains and dozens of One typhoon caught would not have come to her present chaotic trains. The only remedy for this, and for and the force

he Ind foot., Slowly he could not move stato, if the Powers had not tamely suluth incidents as the Linchong incident, pinned him back against the rail so that he mitted to the innumerable breaches of is a very powerful semi-military organi

lower deck and literally to fall into the treaty, insolent disregard of all under zation, superseding the present wasteful managed to wriggle to a gap gising on takings and destruction of property that railway police system, and backed with low are now almost of weekly occurrence. They suficient power to make each member of cockpit, where he took stock of his condi had been torn from him by the force of the have trified with China in the spirit of it think it worth while to do his duty. tion and found that all his outer clothes

trained on the lines of the the sugared delusions of Washington, un. Such a

Force,

Sailors think that some men are more. til her militar baruns naturally conclud- Peking Pro An Tui and enjoying the same wind, including one of his boots. ed that ther might do as they pleased with sort of discipline, officered if necessary by impunity. That is the idea which has to foreign officers, would revolutionize rail-ikely to attract typhoons than others Travel Transaction.

There is one man bere called "Typhoon way travel in China within three months;

He is and possibly be able to take it impossible Bill," he has been in so many; and it is for any Tuchun to convert the railway very difficult for him to get a job. nedrest him into a more weapon of war. like a man I just heard of who turned up with four Ự RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TECHANS, Something of this sort inust be done and during the latter days of the war weking

done

quickly, or the very unpleasant altera berth as. Quarternas would think: From the Peking Daily News (Chinese) : native of a demand from the foreign Boat stripes on his srin Does any person entertain any doubt Powers concernod for the right to police that he would be hailed at once as a foreign hero and martyr, and given the best. Everybody was about the direct cause of this dastardly the foreiqti-interest line with outrage on the security of life and pro troops will present itself. It may come job going: but no porty on the security of rapid communica to that even vot; for foreign patience is afraid to employ him for fear being tor- tion between Peking and Shanghai, and rapidly being exhausted. Every incident pexloed, bad become a habit with him. on the progress of railway development in such as the Tincheng incident, every com China Militarism has a lot to answer mandeering of rolling stock, every seizure

It is now known that Benjamin, the for in the unhappiness of this country, of railway property, all these reduce the nad militarism is bere again the guilty value of railway shares: and the foreign Metropolitan Archbishop of Petrograd, miscreant. For it is the militarists, with Powers will not stand idly by and see the who was sentenced to death a year all their talk of disbandment and troop sacrosanctity of the railway shareholders was murdered in the "blood cellar of

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