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PROTECTION OF RAILWAYS. THE VICTORIA AND SOUTH CHINESE. (VICKERS) NOTES CHINA DIOCESAN

ASSOCIATION.

CHINESE ADMINISTRATION'S

MEASURES.

ADVANCE OARS."

FOREIGN OFFICE, ASKED TO INTERVENE

The following is a copy of a lytter ment by Mr. F. J. Mason, a hojder of Chinese (Vickers) Notes, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Chinese (Vickers) Sterling Treasury Notes, 19ga (în default). «

EFFICIENT GUARDS, PATROLS AND ANNUAL REUNION IN LONDON.

The Colonial Secretary of Hongkong PEKING, June 24th,

(Sir Claud Servin, LL.D.) presided "at The following statement of precau the annual reunion of the Victoria. |tionary measures adepted by the Tientsin. Hongkong and South China Diocesan Pukow Railway administrations for the Association.. held on June 5th at thei As one of the original subscribers for

VOLUNTEERS TO THE RESCUE.

EPISODE OF THE TYPHOON.

When the typhoon hlow. was at ita, height at 4. a.m. on~Honde; and tho. harbour showed signs of churning up into, a seething mass of "foam; as telephons message was prcgived at the Water Police. Station from some unknown person in Hongkong to the effect that was eenl

protection of the Railway has been handesk Fellowship Room, St. Martin-in-the-l these Chinese Treasury notes at 9s peri to Reuter's Agency by the Ministry of Fields, Trafalgar Square, W.C. In open-dent, I write to inquire what steps the best clinging to the top of a buoy Communications:

1.-préial "police patrols are to being the meeting Sir Claud referred to British Government is taking to protect East of the Naval Anchorage and directly

the interest of the subscribers, as, being and stioned in the principal trackmen's the fact that on the occasion of the last international matter, we have only our site Arsenal Street. Glasses were huis so that they can make nightly this two reunions, the chair had been occupied Government to look to uphold our brought to bear on to the Iuoy in ques pection of the line,

Suitable points bej by such distinguished men as Sir John rights. It has been stated by the Chinese tion and, sure enough, through the clouds. tween two connecting stations are to be Jordan and Sir Charles Addis. He re- Embassy that the Chinese Government of spray something could be seen moving selected so that police patrols from these ferred to the splendid work done out in many months ago requested the Council of

It looked very two station, can meet and exchange their Hongkong by Dr. Pearce and Miss Pitts, the International Chinese Consortium to the top of the buoy, checking-cards with each other.

who had given so many years of their make these bonds a charge on the surplus tech like the figure of a man frantically 2-Regulations governing the night lives, to the cause of ducition.

resente of the Maritime Custors of the waring his hands. There was nothing for duties of the police patrols at the stations are to be promulgated so that the patrols The Hon. Secretary, in his annual re: Preaty Ports, and that it was, and pres but to investigate the matter further. port stated that the membership now sumably still is, the Consortium that put may attend to their duties in good order numbered 753, an ingress of 100 over the obstacles in the way of this being done, by turn.

* notwithstanding that the head of the -Officers of the patrols are to make previous year's membership.

administration of the Chinese (Treaty personal inspection trips from time to Col. Dele (Hen. Treasurer). ir sab Ports) Customs is a British official ap time and to see that the patrols are permitting the financial statement said the pointed subject to the approval of the forming their duties as faithfully as prs Association had a credit balance of £220, British Government. sible.

which could be considered as mest satis. factory.

4All platforms of passenger cars on both the Special Express and Mail Trains are to be guarded by efficient armed policemen in turn,

5.-Special Guard Cars are to be pro sided for any emergency use called for by local military authorities concerned in conmretion of protection of travellers,

NIGHT TRIP NARRED.

Miss Stith gave a detailed description i of the districts in which the Association carried units wirk, whilst the Rey, Mr. Hewitt (formerly Headmaster of St Stephen's College) gave some details of the work at the School,

and volunteers to men one of the "aunches were ralled for. There was a ready posponse and a crew in charge of Sub- Inspector Bond and three Huropene water. polie set out in No. 5 lunch for the broy. The nutch pleighed her way through the rising seas to the booy, and then, to the chagrin of all on ward, it was found that it was not a mah but

"tur merely a bagy flag which had been into shreds by the wind and so twirled that it looked just like a man struggling

It was advertiseil at the time of issue; that the British Government approved the issue of these Chinese Treasury note and that the loan was commended as assisting British trade. 1 subscribed for them on this basis, and I feel that if the British Government can guarantee a Seven-and

-Half per cent. Loan for an exenemy Miss Shin, a Chine student at the country, it is not unreasonable to expect

tanve bimself. The launch, returned to. London School of Fenomics, told the that they should bring pressure to bear on 6.-All passenger trains are now run gathering of the trying conditions under the Chinese Consortium to protect their the Police Pier, the crew-satisfied, that ning through the provinces of Kinngsu, which factory workers carried on their own citizens, who subscribed for this even though they hart hour fooled, that Anhui, and Shantung during day tine. work in China. She added that she was loan (some doubtless like myself ex- For the anke of avoiding possible danger, aver in England to study industrial Service men) from being victimised, they had, at any rate, dene their duty,

refusing to sanction the insuo the method of sending patrolling train conditions in order that she might go by ahead of regular rains might be adopted back to China to better the, lot of her of any further new Chiness loan in when the day light will be shortengd in fellow-workers.

this country without provision being made winter time.

for the payment of these Treasury notes. unconditionally in full, and further to instruct their representative on the Con- sortium not to concur in the charging of this surplus in any other quarter with out first provision being made for sach payment.

Sir Claud Severn, Sir Charles Aldis, -Efficient and experienced railway; and General Sir George Kirkpatrick were pelien are to be picked and assigned to unanimously elected Vice-Presidents of various points between Tsungchow and the Association. Pengpu. In civilian, clothes, they are to inspect the countries along the railway for any possible information about tha whereabout of the bandits. Upon finding auch information, they are to report to both the focal military authorities con cerned and the Railway Administration

for action.

8-Locat villagers are to be employed as assistant scouts for the Railway.

TROOPS RESPONSIBLITY.

VIA NORTH POLE TO CHINA.

WHAT THE CHILDREN

LEARN.

INTERESTING DISPLAY AT VICTORIA BRITISH SCHOOL.

Victoria British School, Chuseway Bay,, was thrown open to the public yesterday? morning and quite a number of people took advantage of the opportunity affordeşl

By international agreement the custoins at the Treaty Forts have been increased Flying conditions are not so good in from a 31 per cent basis to an actual any other part of the world as they are per cent., presumably with a view to enthem of inspecting an interesting display in the Polar area," declared. Mr. Vilhable the Chinese Government to meet its jalmur Stefansson, the well-known explor- foreign debts, but the action of the Con er, who recently arrived in London from sortium has led to the whole of the surplus Canada.

being paid to Chinese, creditors alone

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INFLUENCE OF CERTAIN BANKS,

of work done by the children of the whoni, which as Mr. Clarke, the head- mistress, explained to the parents and 9. The following troops are to be held

Mr. Stefansson thinks that the airship

tatul friends, was not so much à display responsib'd for the safety of travelling of would be the best means of transit for various localities, The Twenty-third and the proposed Polar route to China. He It is now suggested that the attitude of of special work but is siqetion of class. Twenty-sixth Divisions are responsible for pointed out that from London to Tokyo, the Consortium in not agreeing to the the section between Techow and Hingtsiid the North Pole, would be only 1,960 Chinese Government's request arises, from work to show what the pupils do during Included in thes and Tientsil the Tungkuang Gendar- miles, whereas the route by the Trans-the influence of certain banks who claim the ordinary routine, merie for Tangkuang Station, the 80th Siberian Railway opvers 8,537 miles......... a monopoly for the issue of Chinese loans exhibits were meery, nent exampley of Regiment for section between Tungkuang Canadian born, the exploree assumed and who oppose these notes being provid-arithrustic, eript writing, rayon draw....

Ted for on the grounds that they were not and Tehbien, the 90th Regiment for the section between Tungkuang and Tehisien, his foreign-sounding same owing to the surd by them, nor the approval of the ings and clay and plasticine modelling.

commonpaceness of his own, which was loan by the Consortium obtained.

Aryng the most interesting were nature. the 90th Regiment for the section between William J. Stevenson. He has not kept a Tungkuang and Hingtai Heavy guards are to be stationed at Reingtai, Ysang single souvenir of his many Polar adven hsien, Naupi and Wuchiao. For Chihii tures. and Chuanho, there will be one company of soldiers stationed there. For the 16 stations including Yaokuantun, Fengchia- kow, Liepchen and Anling, one sceret military detective will be assigned for duty.

PROTECTION IN SHANTUNG.

ני

CO-OPERATION OF VILLAGERS,

An assurance that the Government are study exhibits which included some very acting, or intend to act, on the lines fre specimens of atlas moth, hawk hereinbefore suggested would relieve the moths, beetles, cicadas and other insets." minds of all the noteholders and muke

During the course of the moruing the children gave the gathering an extra triat by rendering" number of songs and recitations very creditably.

them feel that the Government has done The children have been supplied with something tangible for them, and for two a microscope enabling them to closely 2.-To request the local civil authorities sons: Firstly, because it is reported examine their specimens

that the chairman of Messrs. Vickers, at along the line to encourage the co-opethair recent annual meeting, stated that ration of the public, to lecite the where it was unfortunate these bonds were 10. Besides the seven articles concern abouts of the bandits and to report the known as Chinese Vickers bonds, as ing the protection of travelling as promul same either to the respective civil author Vickers were not responsible for the in gated by the order of Tuchun Tier, the ities or to the military commanders of test, and his other casual remarks con-

to the respective | protection for the railway within the pro- respective places or vince of Shantung is to be divided into railway stations concerned so that defence eyed the impression that the company

HOUSE BOY'S THEFT. three sections as follows: From Techow or suppression measures can be prepared regard their moral responsibility somewhat in their efforts on the bondholders to Sangtsetion, to be guarded by the 7th in time (This measure has already been lightly and are not apparently unecasing

A Chinese behalf, notwitästanding that they had the

house boy employed by Mr. Brigade, from Lokaw to Wutsun, "to be taken up) guarded by the 8th Division, from Chufou 3. To instruct the railway police of all money and were responsible for planting Montieth Webb, of Pokiulum Read. gr. to Hanchuang, to be guarded by the forec stations to inspect both ways of the line the bands on the British public, and charged at the Magistracy yesturday under command of Military Commissioner during the night, the men of one station secondly, because we attended a meeting of Yenchow and Yenchos Defence Guard are to meet the men of the other station on Monday at Winchester House of the morning before Mr. C. D. Melbourne with. Special Military force are to be stationed and to exchange the checking cards of bondholders called by n certain bank, at the theft of a pair of cuff links worth 250, at Yenchow and Hanchuang to offer pro- their respective stations as evidence of which it transpired that a movement is on and pen kaife valued at 85, ther tection to the railway at time of emer execution of their dativs-in such a way foot to charge such surplus Customs property of his master.

all sections of the line can be inspected revenue for a new loan, and it did not

From the ovidends it appeared that Mr. gency:

11. For the province of Anhui, the every night,

seem to me that the interest of the sail bank (or any other bank for that matter) Webb had been missing a number of various military units now stationed at re spective points are to be requested to give Devices aftguarding the running of is quite identical with the bondholder's, articles, including clothing, from the although I fully appreciate that the raisins, and although he had suspicions he co-operation for the protection of the rail- way. Until the time schedule is changed in such a way that the passenger trains pass all principal stations within the pro- sisting of one or two cars to run between Opportunity of getting redress, provided could not directly trace the thefts to his vince during day time, spidiers are to be Yenching and Kwang-haul stations pri such redress is not made too conditional. (Signed) FREDS. J. MASON. put on duty at various stations or on dif. ceding the regular trains in order to find Your obedient Servant, ferent trains for the protection of the out whether there is any danger ahead of the line. These patrolling trains upon railway.

arrival at each station and upon finding no danger in the way are to report hack 12-For the province of Kiangsu, the to the previous station passed, so that the Military Commissioner of Nanking is to regular trains can follow up or down. be responsible for the section between 2-To change the present time tule Pukow and Huachiring, and the Military governing all trains in such a way that Commissioner of Hauchow and Haichov

KIANGBU “SÈITION: «

J

PROVISION OF PATROL, CA:S.

triine. P

1.-To provide patrolling trains con.ing of a new loan is the bondholder's

Md

concerned with the state of the money

decided the time had arrived for the police to be called in. They arrived" tia the scene, and searched the boy's buggage, when the missing links and the penknifo came to light.

house boy. When the cuff links went hu

Defendant pleaded guilty and sentenced to four months imprisonment.

THE

TASVEINA SOCIETY IN

LONDON

EASTERN EXCHANGE BANKS

In a special banking section issued with the Times Trade Supplement for May 19th, Mr. W. F. Spalding gives acme account of the work of Far Eastern bank-...... ing. Generally speaking, he

Say the London joint stock banks are principally market and the trend of trade, although, of

The report of the Council for 3927-1923 course, the prudent banker will always observe the position of international notes that the outstanding event of the 2-To provide a Special Armoured Car finance. Eastern bankers in their capacity past year. has been the amalgamation. to be attached to each Special Express of wholesale dealers, who carry the stock with the Anglo-Chinese Friendship So Train, up and down, in which there will of international currency in the shape of city, which was first mooted as far back. be squads of armed policemen under bills of exchange on all the principal as the summer of 1921. The formal union the control of 4 officers, equiped with centres of the world, have to be conversaut came into effect on March 31st. A Stand- machine-guns.

D-Special Proterlion-for Træerflies:

To assign 30 armed "policerpen com- auded by one officer for every train to Trotect the life and property of the pas angers section by section,

is to be responsible for the section between they would pass the so called bandit

country in day time. Chiskou and Likouri. While running between Hsachow and Lincheng ona special car is to be attached to both Special Express aud Mail Trains, up and dawn, at the disposal of the latter en that be can despatch soldiers to protect the railway as adequately as possible,

PEKING-HANKÓW LINE.

"MILITARY AUTHORITIES' DEFENCE MEASURES.

Aricial Protection for the Line: 1.-To order all trackmen of the line not to leave their huts without permis.

with alexchhinges Rates, he tells as, ing Committee;.consisting of five British zion but organise themselves into groups,

were not so troublesome in 1922 as in the and five Chiness members, has been ap to inspeet y turn the rails and bridges

years immediately following the war, pointed, whore fraction will be to pro of the line as carefully as possible.

2-To instruct all men belonging to

E--Co-operation of Local Stubinning although they have been difficult enough. mote the welfare of Chinese students in Railway Police Force to keep a constant.

Soldiers are to be Employed; **

Exchange with the Far. East was fairly this country. So far, nearly 30 members stable throughout the year, and it follow of the Anglo Chinese Friendship Society inspection of the line, by group, 5 kilo 1-To request all military authorities ed closely the flactuations in the price of have signified their willingness to transfer metres, each way from their respective of various provinces along the railway to bar silver. Although it may be claimed their membership to the China Society. stations.

give their co-operation in all defence mea that more difficult conditions confront the In addition to these, 15 new members have. 3.-To select 140 Special Travelling sures against any possible bandit outrage. Eastern banks in the conduct of business been elected during the past year. A tri- Police to be commanded by 4 officers, and (This measure has already been taken than the London banks, they are not buta is paid to the memory of Mr. accompanied by 8 men handling signals up.)

altogether dependent on similar sources Arthur Diosy, who had been one of the

| with special armoured cars to accommodate 2. To divide the railway line in the of income; but naturally, in view of their most active members of the Society since them so that groups of this Foren can ho provines of Honan into following sectious large commitments in London, a higher 1008. His memory will remain green ns. despatched from place to pince for into be under special care of various mili interest rate, which always accompanies a the founder, and, for a long time, the spection work, the armoured cars to be tary commanders. From Shuntch to Chih keen trade demand for money, is more moving spirit of the Japan Society, on attached to this trains.

sien, to be patrolled by Shensi troops preferable to the Eastern banks than the which the China Society closely modelled B-Guptant Watch for the whereabouts under General Wu, from Chitsien to low rates that have ruled in 1921 and 1022, itself years later.

of the Bandits: ...

Hsinhsiang, by the Brigade under the There has been a moderate revival of Owing to his retirement from the Hong- I-To employ special Secret Service commander of General Ma, from Hsin-trade in the East. He then makes some kong and Shanghai Bank, Mr. John. Mac Force to station at various points of the hsiang to Chengchow, by the Brigade com- remarks on the trade of 1822 and of the Lennan resigned the Honorary Treasurer ling go that they can be on constant watch mauded by General Boo, from Chengchow results of the Hongkong and Shanghai ship, and Mr. E Townend has very kindly.. for the whereabouts of the bandits, if any, to Wasben Pass, by the 14th Division; all Bank, the Chartered Bank of India, the consented to fill the vacant post.. and to report the same to local military other sections of the line also having beer Mercantile Bank of India, the Yokohama The balance sheet shows that the authorities for action.

assigned to be patrolled by respective Specia, and other Japanese banks, Bark Society's finances are in quite a flourish. (Continued at foot of next column.) units of troops stationing there.

of Taiwan and Indian banks.

ing state.