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INTERVIEWED BY "THE TIMES'S" CORRESPONDENT.

ins WORK OR HIS COUSERY.

The Times's correspondent at Peking. Hem by mail the following account of a recent interview with General Wu Pei-fu :- Promptitude and an absence of the circumioention common in the Orient are characteristic of the dealings of Wa Pei fa. When I telegraphed to him personality ta say that, with his permission, i proposed to visit him at Layang, there emme the brief but atisfactory reply, "You welcome-Wit l'ei-fo

THE TREASURER.

One of the candies, employed in taking

He told the rlier workers at Tsao.

At a meeting of the Legislative Connell at ! supplies to Pao Tzu. Ka (the balita The London Moraig Post of May 2nd Singapore last week, the Colonial" "Treasuree ¦ fortress where their captives have ben' had the following leading article.--- - introduced a Bill to amenul the Currency: quincteres) gives a curious explanation as toy shy the train was derailed by taking It has been intraluced "Let 'Osdinances,

the ish plates off the lines, provide the Colony with Currency Legisla tion suitable to the circumstances of this time The explanations given of the Hill ́ ́ chung think the bandits told him that the ile from an Amerigau The film apparently one of the was highly technicul, but the following they got exime is from the Treasurer's speech are of ↑ Alm.

serial sheekors, gare a detailed pictars malan local interest:

of the wrecking BỈ THẢNH" và, the air. note if bandits remember how it was

vist

was first

Government paper chimney issues in this Colony in 199 under Or dinance No. 147 (Currency Sore). That: de

slinance underwent a considerable amoun fauneminent, with its last principal and.. ment on the party currency side in 1908. fore, he sail to embly die-experienes of The Hill now before this cancil may, there

When passing through Loyang on the way Ito inspect construction on the Langg-ai milway a telephone message to him stated tlir hour of my ágyival on the following 1 day, and on my return a motorem eune 1 Bolshevity of the Labour the 15 years since TIMAS,

¡ in his dice.

The nam inself is an attractive per sonality, and his smile and beansing

It is tall warm one to frietaliness at once. for a Chinese, but shealer, and of the same

tion

STARLISING THE BOLLAR.

That it work perfectly is fortunately too well known,

There any those whs seoff zip tie » explanation, but it is not likely that a colas would have sutleien ingenuity to invent such a story.

P. & O. AND BRITISH INDIA COMPANIES.

BUILDING ARRANGEMENT-.

Th&0. Company have recently placed orders with Myers. Harland &

Saghalien, as it may not be quite super. fluous to explain, is an island of the Fast! Crust of Siberia. between the half of Tartary and the Son of Oklaa-E. We duates not like to say off-hand how wany housands of miles it is from Landes, Jut it is just about a distant any island could be

on the terrestrial globe. Yet the destinies of this island appear to be such

and urgent jaqintance to the Workers of Lawton that the Socialists Eulussy with marched to the

dying And and playing and this is by no means the first demonstration they have made on the sabject. Some time ago Mr. Hamsay Maclonald, trimself, wrote to him by the to the Japanes Ambassador upon informa

The Leaders meet me sharp to the moment. We drove Party prufoss a letostation of Soviet theory

Stabilisation of the Straits SetCemonts straight to the General's headquarters, and nethal, Mr. Showen, the other day,

searching his mind for appropriate vituper within five minutes I was sitting beside him tion, compared the addeviks to the Dir dollar followed some years after the passing llards. Then, why is it that both the of the original anilince by fixing the Labour Party and the Communists are atquivalent of t Straits dollars as seven ane in this consuming anxiety for the sovereigns, and on this stabilisation deals by the Currency Commissioners in the pacebase Bolshevist interest in Sightalion

What interest has the British working and sale of steeling remittances for dollars Thus the paper currency could be type, physically, as Ciming Tso-liu, but, man, whout these people claim to représent, became possible, dellated her by gull whereas the latter is vale, Wo has the in an islami of which he has never hear; dents in Lündon or silver deals in Singapore.

soldier

and in a situation of which he kraw The eurrent coin, ie, silver dollars or ruddy coustener of a

Reenstoned 120 The truth is that the maine j to sun and wind. He is up and out o

Labour is taken in vain by a gang sovereigns received for currency notes for to the drilling of his Brit troops. The

mixerstand that the It is, of course, quite clear that we could feminine, in physique, and is a moderate Bolshevist Uovernment in this country. We the Note Gunrantee Final. opium sinoker."Wal

a healthy ap hope the Japanes preciation of spirtuous for, hat los net deinonstrations de

expenses in connection with the Government Indulge in it until time strenuous day's work in the name of British Labucakas-y not keep all that coin lying idle or all our excrllenges of the Kaiseri Hind with sound would have been not loss, features of the Fulden and Your kindni anisa lie, a fraudulent representation, papel have been steady calls an

A third ship of the same type will be is over. Sur is he ever late for, parade.

that the British working-man knows and ther His heable origin is no secret is father nothing of st eres nothing for the Government revenues to make go! the "constructed by Mosses, Hawthorn, Leslie

at issu

The Greenock Way should het deficiency. Part of the current coin was

at Newca-the. was a simple farmer in Shantung, but the

question

is this non had sturious tastes and devoted him-

enne in which invested in gift edged securitil the in- & Co., hot the

The

cume from the investments gave us a yard has a's an order for a 10,000 fol self to scholarship. Under the old examina; his name is being capoitrul

passenger express steamer of the Sabette tion system he took the primary degree of munist papers atmerd for May Day working expruses and something steadily Hsiutsal, but then compelled by proverty to work for his living. He joined other soustration, which was to take increasing over.

place before the French Endassy, against th Army as an officer's servant, and since

the occupation of the Ruhr. We have not then has steadily risen. His first important heard that this demostration actually

a but: spannenent was the command of

4 Changchan, part of the place; but we have no doubt that the tie of British labour at their cruel Division under To Kas stationed at man public will be add to dng of time in Mukden. This was in pre-Levulation days, it by tin Chuaniasts and Militaristy

The British India Company has in before Chang Tso-lin had risen to eminence, of Franct. We venture testy that the

cars of entstruction, or projected, ng.. Note Guantes Fond. Ins färMY,

British working on is neither indignaut

When the 1915 Onlinaree was before jess than ten steamers; five of the " with France nor sympathetic with tiermany. decides with his rough

commonsense this council, the depreciation fand amounted det ensiders the question at all, in

Calcutta-Japan service, of Company's "to price of the investments was 8 million. kai to frighten the Yanking delegates, who, that the French are sought to support to about $1 million, whereas the cost class of 9,000 tons each, intended for the

words by decks, wanted him to go South to receive office their from the newborn Parliament. The livisionswallow tamely, aw the British Govern. Your predecessors in office thought that

have doing

morning Manchurian general is almost of aliens, who are the agents of the ed the lacking for those notes, that is form Wolf for the entstruction at that Fri's

was

It was this division which in 1912 so dis Astrously footcel a great part of Peking,

sedly inspired to this by

ment.

the

their

is a us

Greenock yard of two passenger steamers of 13.000 togs which will combine the

Naturally, with investments there is type, All, the new vessels, which are in- always the risk of depreciation, and a famd teeded for the india Mail Servies, will- was created called the Depreciation Fund by income over expenses of administration. fiting to bard oil fuel under Scotch appropriation of the excess of investment have reciprocating rigines and will be This depreciation fand was to be brought boilers.

P to a value of 10 per cent. of the cost price of the investments on account of the

is now under Wu l-i-fu's firect command at, ernstinations of Teutonic diplomacy, Komated with the Note Guarantee Fund, two to burn coal, two single screw motor-

Lyang, but contains one of the officers' and

men whdistinguished themselves in Peking ; \ew of his own interest or the inst

TY M

of

earnestly

That

the lemonstration

atunced in his name did not materials, if it did, was of such sinait dimensions as to escape the notice of our reporter.

the depreciation fan! might wel: be amal which thres will be fitted for oil fuel and How much mure is that the case now with driven cargo ships sach of 2300 gross the depreciation fund standing at 14 mil lion dollars and the cost price of Note tons. There are besides the Khandafle,

millions

Fast Africa Line, with twin screw recip- Guarantee Fund investments at only 417,300 tons, for the Company's Bombay-

The stability of the exchange value of rocating engines; the twin screw motor- single screw calfarning the dollar being one of the most important; cargo ship" oleuma of 6,000 t... and tha features of oar Farrener, a third fun Sar-ng, a known as the Cold Starlard Reserve Fund turbine steamer, the two it being in- was created out of profits on silver cointended for the Indian Coast Service

remittances to be used for the be the P. & O. Company, (including the

19. That chility you fcasion arose. preder in 1915 realised was

not in

and how well on the way to completion) tion of the Gold Standar Rerve Fund Britier India Company 64,100 ters; to danger, and they agreed to the amalgammon to 27, tous gros: and b, the

fund to meet all purposes. with the other funds, That is, they agreed ether a tal of 162,000 gres: ton..

to one f

CHANGES IN BILL

At the time the 1915 ordinarion was before this council, the Gold Standard Reserve Bundt stort at somewhat wear er snillions. it now stauals at 18 million soils es

J.

A STRANGE FREIGHT. THE CHINAMAN'S LAST VOYAGE.

considers the question from the point It is a mxlet baix of troups, the men all

of his country

he sees flat as a result of young, physically fit, and well disciplined.

During the lavinus process of interpret the French interventions British furnaces

have been clit and the British from tion General Wu aunotatel a big bundle of dispatch, desisting when it was his turn to steel, trade, long stagnant as a result of talk or listen Onitting all the kind in unfair German competition, slows signa quiries about my health and the comfort of improvement. Why should the

working-mans with the

The Germ my journey, he went straight to the point against the French Were

to the adjacent ea suggestel my visit to struction wivks by referving to the import. kind to him during the war when age and profits on purchase and sale of! The new tonge at present projectoi

El into

into their hands? And in time arones of backing the xity of the dollar un'ole and Huoltoe, each of 21,000 tone

is it not the Germans who are the extension, for sesakanjeli ance of railway

Pa

British davelopment on the one hand, and

main rats of the stagnation of means of empl

dishandel sabliers on industry by which he lives! Why should the other

particular anxiety The demonstrate here the French Bussy about the compition of the Canton tankow Railway, which, he said, would greatly assist to help the Chris of the Ruhr: the the policy of unification, in which he was appears to have asked himself that question particularly interestal.

This gave me the opportunity to remark

was plenty of sluit there

foreign money for railway construction in China, but that

But the announcement of these 1 pil. would be available until stablishment in a Government commanding grinnges to the French and Japanese

A quotation in a Hongkong freight or cular. Human ashes in ure confidener at boots as well as abroad. Far Eastassies shows conclusively when the

To sum up this point at a time when the ther

that foreigners were dismayed by the strings of the Labour marionettes are held.

liabilities on account of currency note cut 20.00 gold dollars per urn," prompted an chaos in China, which seemed to them to be The left hand of the manipulator is in

-The ex- leading to a break up of the country into Moscow and the right in Berlin. The pure amounted to $13 million, and the funds inquiry as se the reason for the convey-

Independent States, a condition that internationalism of which the Communist the control of the commissioners were ot

not exist If it did, what

ore than $12 million, it was considered as strange a

planation," writes the Assistant Secretary would arouse much anxiety noong the foreign bonis does

safe difference would it make whether the lur

to analgamate these funds. The of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, Powers interested.

Seis quite simple. Many Europens and General

oral Wi smiled easily at these fears gooi Government of France or the ur pition at the rust of last

was that the ability on aveount of Americans residents in the Far East ant quoted history to prove that revula in gris Government of firmany was vie

is a national

the currency notes in circulation

Wits desire that their-remning should be burie

After death, by periods of unrest that forious on the fishr followed

some $37 million, aur the fands in coun

in their antive country. tested patiener. He was punient that his in every Socialist and Communist

netivity, and that bias is always German troi of the coumissioners were well over therefore, their bodies are creanted and Hence the quotation in things in Chimu were lists year there Why : ip the cast of Hussia it might be too willhat. The increase in the safety And that the end

by the betion that a Workers

margin since 1913 is enormous and I will conveyed home. would be favourable developments. He suiri

But there is

Our correspondent adds a few parti- that unification must come first, s'ter which was in power.

sum as the officer in charge of the disbandment of superfinous troops would not even that ticion to explain the road to this for what it is worth my as the freight tariff." become practicable, and after that the Germanism of the Labour Party. What currency for the past ten years, that I culars as to the cavynuce of embalmed can set no possible danger whatever in the bodies of Chinese from the United States he writes, there is no straightening out of the finances would then, is the explanation? It is supplied by

the fact that Germany is and has always anmigacation of the st Note Guarantee and where to their native country. follow automatically. He admitted to dia appointment in the Government at Peking, teen the enemy of this country, or is the Fal, Depreciation Funland old Standard "In this case,**

won supplied by the old minge" He who

Reserve Fund into the new Currency question of urne, as the Chinese have strong religious objections to cremation; and particularly in the Parliament, bat

Guarantee. Fund. believed that the new Parliament, which pays the piper calls the tuna?"

That is one of the primary and most their desire to be buried with their clanspeople is actuated by their views on anust soon follow the present, would be

important changes in the new bill as com a fin

ure ancestor worship. When they apprebend great improvement ani ils predecessor,

pared with the law now in force before that death is near, Chinese residents in

turn to other questions I would like to

were

THE TUCHUSS.

1 ske General Wa what were the oletacles to unitication. He said they were

eather intangible, but that the real dificulty was that the Tuchens Military Gover

the restoration of Sen Yat-sen in Canton,

rargu.

It is obvious that there is a great deal of scheming going on between Chang Tention one absolutely anomalous result America usually take passages for China.

law this fine stud the Anfa (pro-Japanens) lenders for of the existing law. Under the existing Embarking in many cases, in practically last year as the difference between frequent, and it is usual for shipping Cash taken for investments and the

coffing in expectation of this. All Chinese to give belong to one or other of numerous native ronson that unification would mean a diminu- number of the Yangtze and Southern pro Thus the Government had

for the convey-. icking to the Comunissioners of guilds, and these make themselves re tion in

own power in favour of the inces together. These intrigues

idently regardul as blocking the way to

assats execute their liabilities nuen home of Chinese who

nors who talked and telegraphed so ghuty not for any love of the latter, but in order.¡ * 299,000 mcil had no option but to vote dying condition, death on the voyage is on this point, wete Secretly opposed for the in defeat Wu Pi-fu's endeavour to bring valde of the investments so buket, compatties to carry a number of empty

far

I then put

WAS

R

it to

Dru

"Him that unification wasanity, and it is proimbẫu that Wu That time when the Commis sponsible, where necessary die in foreign

on

intention was to press the unification pre-counterbalancing the endeavour to combine Landon is a patter at

the

Fellow-passenger on off if il depended upon a change of atti-is meditating some sort of a demonstration by many millions. I may say that all the countries,

sutes paid by Government to the Currency voyage subscribe for the cert of embalming tle on the part of the Tuchans. This he in the South. LTD.,

nduitted, and was thea compelled to the

was recently reported in the Hongkong Wu Pei-fu knows little of international Commissioners under the existing law have any poor Chinese who die on board." It admission that if some of the Tuchugis

recalcitrant forte would have to be affairs, and this lack is a grave deficiency been repaid by the Comunissioners,

Now we come to the experiences aris. Press that a policy had been underwritten

Our news-

in the United States to cover 100 holding xoldier them. He would not admit, in his equipment for dealing with high used against

ing out of the recent war.

of Chinese which we wing shined in their native land in the Robert Dollar. however, that there was any inmediate prosplitics. He explains himself as pect of a further clash between himself and having no concern with politics, but the papers have constant references to the

Although nothing definite large political staff which he maintains and effects was said, receiver) the impresion, from live netivities in which he engages prove it of the war out the stars that Lloyd's fat and Whipping Gazette

which did not General W, and from some of his advisers the contrary. He is busy pulling strings this is the only country

vary the limits of its exchange rates on with whom afterwards talked, that the everywhere, purtly with the object of

the war, nor is it since

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE. pride fur the war. grume first in other directions and to leave for his destruction, and partly for the

DECISION TO RAISE A LOAN. Chang

Tso-lin until some measure of success furtherance of his own well-intentioned this Government, and a matter of incal-

plans for national reconstruction.

culable advantage to the trade of the had been attainerl.

The decision of the Hamburg-Amerika Cabinet crisis was provoked by Wa

According to both foreign and Chinese country, in respect of which the Settle ment is mainly a London settlement. This

Line to raise a loan of 5,000,000 dollars Pel-fe's demand that the Government should lens he is not ranking conspicuous pre run Government currency started the war on a

(21,000,000) was approved at a generat make certain appointments in Fukien and

in either respect. Nevertheless the m

individuality and character. He gold exchange standard basis, it finished it Kwangtung I asked him if he was still possesses it a commander-personally very rightly on a sterling exchange standard meeting of the company hold on April pressing this demand, and whether, if fins proved h

basis, and has maintained that basis since 30th.

The company's fleet is now equal to one were neceled to in the ca

of great bravery, something rare in China

the war. It now comes to this council to

third of its pre-war tonnage. It has wo Shen Hung-ying--the Kwangsi commander, superior to any of his fellow-countrymen

been decided not to increase the shotes now the principal military factor in Kwang. He cominanda sont one hundred and fifty legalise that basis.

capital of the company. The cost of hy tung-that persage would be prepared pronate unification.

further shipbuilding is to be envored General Wu stated that he was still insisting on Shen's ap

loans ant working profits. The chairman, is established. He may not himself be on- bat admitted that he was put dowed with the qualities necessary in the

prophesy for the Dr. Max Schinkel, in a review of the paintment, certain of Shen's adherence to the unifica one who shall straighten out the affairs of

an extreme company's progress, stated that business

were satisfactory, tion programme, from which it may be this country and enable it to take a place Derby to-morrow is that deduced that the whole object of Ceneral in the world ass going concern. But, should outsider will win by a head," and in the developments Wa's intervention is to keep Sun Yat-sen them arise a statesman of the required circumstances it very safely concludes ticularly having regard to the economie calibre he will assuredly find in Wu Pei-fu that "the sporting world will be amazed situation created by the French invasion out of Kwanglung.

of the Bubr.' at the result."? ·

··(Continued að foos of neck column.) amost valuable coadjutor.

BRUNSWICK STUDIO.

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thousand troops, who revers him as a leader. His reputation for honesty and patriotism

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