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SAGHALIEN ISLAND COAL

WORKINGS AND RESERVES.

·CAPTURED BY CHINESE SOLDIERS

CHUNGKING RESIDENT CONFINED IN CHINESE PRISON.

FARGE RANSOM ASKED FOR

Suffering from manifold injustlersy

In the course of a paper on the coal resources of Saghällen Island, send hy Mr. C. W Purington, before the Ameri can Institute of Mining and Metallir gical Engineers, the author remarksĮthat for both naval and merchant ships mode being spat upon and beaten and forced to march overland with the retreating. practice seems to require high-grade

army of General Yang Sen the entire dis Welsh or "Pennsylvania bituminous-coal

tance from Chungking "to Wanhsiet, even at great expense for transportation. Elly Widler, captive in the latter city, Otherwise, we should not see British wrote to Shanghai asking för immediate ships bunkering Welsh coal at Singapore and stern assistance for his release, Mr. nor the United States establishing a store widler, a resident of Chungking and for of Pennsylvania corl at its naval base at his entire 33 years a resident of China, Pearl Harbour, Hawnin Compared with

was arrested on September 10th, by the Atlantic conls, the best Müke and Naga soldiers of the Second Army, defonding | saki (Japanese) bunker enal, the Kailan that city against those of the First, and | coal of China," and the Wellington and was detained by them there until October Nanging coals of British Columbia, are 16th, the date of the fall, and suber. distinctly inferior.

quently was forced to march to Wanhsien: Fachlition to the coal ward for stepm-where-he-was still being held captive at ing and busker purposes, it is of incregs, the tits of his writing. Although he ing importance that an ilequate supply had a Swiss passport in his possession at of coking coal for metallurgiell purpows the time of arrest which he produøed and | should be maile available at reasonable showed to General Yang it. made absolute-

prices at industrial centres on the west by no differvice to that official who kept | coast of America, and at. Japanese and him in the worst sort of conditions, so bad! Chinese coastal eities,

that he contracted dysentery" and 'ucärly | The use of Chinese coking coals for fot his life. In addition to the passport.) smelting the icou of the lower Yaugise he had, according to his letter, with him Edeposits_is_bna Judins so satisfactory La certificate if registration in the Swiss as could be desired, while the pour Consulate in Shanghai and Tis, 3,000, ali quality of Japanese goals for coking pur-of which were taken from him and cou- poses is well known.

fiscated, as well. as all his clothes. Russia possesses. in the north half of charge of sanggling urts was placed Saghalien Islaul, a reserve of esking and against him, but to date he has had no tanker coals. It is curious that in reccas opportunity of defending himself and discussions concerning Saghalien this clearing him from the allegations, cual reserve, already the subject of mach Mr. Cornell S. Franklin of Williams geological study, has attracted less atten- Franklin and Faison. has been retained tion than the adjacent oil indications, by Mrs. Wider, his mother, to represent Saghalien is 350 miles long and varies hot in efforts to get a sprisly and just from 15 to 100 in width. It is the north- hearing. crn terminus of the great fujunesac archi-. pelago. By far the most important asset of the Island is cont

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Mr. Wider in his letter describes the most horrible condition under which he has been fereed to subsist His captors appear to be not content with farving him, and feeding bin with stuff unassimili able by the foreigner, but have actually! deprived him of the niversary factors t keep axly and out together," Besides | weakening him physically through these mans, there seem's to be a determined effort to reduce his morale to mil, for be The Japanese although they have has been beaten and kleked, sput upon, established important coal mines it Kartruck and formed to wear unhygienic futo, as the Japanese portion of Sagha-

It is singular that the Japanese, when making the treaty of Portsmouth, necept ed as the boundary the 30th parallel of latitude, which almost exactly the dividing line between the comparatively poor Cretaceous coals to the south, and the valuable coking Tertiary coals to the north of that parallel

lien is now called, have leaf baly with glothing, and has not been permitted to ar lignitic or long-flame coala

much is bathe. Conditions. rapidly be North or Russian Sagbaliga, contains the best-known reserve of fit-class coking cant worse and with the advance of] and looker coal in the lauds fringing Cernd Yang Se toward Chungking| the Pacific Ocean.

The reserve has been conservatively The General had him conficed in the ser-

ngain, th

change was immediately noted. estimated by Russian geologists at 700,000,000 tons lying within six miles of vants' quarters ander supervivion, but|| title-water on the west coast of the island, turned him over to the Magistrate when and extending for about 100 miles in north and south extent.

The left, who was afraid of the possible This reserve does not include duplica cecape of the cuptive and has tightened tions of the con-hearing folds further his hands untearably Mr. Widler was inland, which may quadruple the amount,

and which are entirely anexplored. The placed in a Chinese prison and had" ta coal exceeds in quality any available associate with the riff-raff of the lowest coals of China...

classes of Chinese, whose habits even we here in Shanghai have an iden of, as he states the dirt, stink, fleas and rermin! were unbearable..

The coal beds are of workable thick ness, in both, the Tertiary and the Cre theeous conis.

RENDITION OF WEIHAIWEL

UNION OF PUBLIC BODIES OF SHANTUNG SPEAKS.

Conditions improved somewhat for Bingthrough the efforts of the Rev. Thomas Darlington of the China Island) Mission, who brought him the neccusary. A Peking News Agency says -

medicines and better food (he had no The Central Government continues to money to buy). Then a query, puroly receive communications from Shantung in reference to the acceptance of the Wei- in the interisty of humanity by an official haiwer retrocession termus drawn up by thought to have been an American Naval the joint commission. To-day a message officer, it appears, caused the Chiuese arrived from the Union of Public Bodies

of Shantung which charged that the Magistrate to become afraid and,timid British have no real intention of releasing; and a general casing in the tension res Weihaiwel and requesting the Govern sulted sent not to compromise itself by signing the agreement. This they say is dis asowed by the people of Shantung who at seance, lut according to his recent stand ready to fight the question to the figure, jy degrease of several per cent, has end. They added that a personal appeal!

"The first amount of rangon' was set

would be made to the Government hy been the ultimatum-$10,000. There is their representatives in Peking în collas (still a more riesut offer General Yang boration with the Shantung residents of told him that if he could get a guarantor Peking.

The same hue and ery is taken up in and he could also procure for him a con- telegram from the Kirin Provincial signment of modern pistols he would then Assembly in which comment is made on be given an unconditional release-N_C. the circulars isshed by assemblies of

AN ARMED ROBBERY

Feugtien and Chihli on the same subject. Daily News. They allege that there are nine separate points which would be detrimental to the Chinese rights in the agreement, which would to say the least establish a bud precedent for, the handling of diplomatie affairs in the future. Consequently the Government is called upon to rectify tho | Six armed robbers beld up a messenger errors in connection with this Weihaiwei of the Tung Yih Trust Company, 1271, rendition agreement.

"IN SHANGHAI

Peking Road, Shanghai, in the heart of the International Settlement recently at MORE TAVERNS IN EUSSIA.

12.45 o'clock in the morning and escaped with approximately $500,000 in negotia Sizce the Bolshevists legalised the saleable bonds and securities blog and drinking of alcohol, which the The Lands were being taken by a Chi-1 Taaris Government totally prohibit famese clerk of the trust company from the 1914, an extraordinary number of taverns Stock Exchange on Hankow Itoad to be. has been opened, especially in factory dis delivered to the banking establishment, triots, says the Tinta Riga correspondeat, It is estimated that Moscow's taverns have a the clerk's rientia came along Yingpo already reached pre-war figures. Although wailart stepped into the street halting it Road near Shantung Beall, a single nt- Formerly it was little drunk, er ha become the workers principal drink in and instantly was joined by several stead of vodka. Thesa taverns attract others These overturned the vehicle and Communists from their clubs. It is there seized the package of bonds which were fore now proposed to attach a beerhall to wrapped in black covering paner. In the each Commanist club, appointing reliable confusion that followed the whole band of Communist managers, thus extending the belief was advanced that they had robbers vanished around a corner and Communist influence among factory work ers and preventing the cinis from empty made their escape in a waiting motor-

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A slave in a coal mine by day and a victim of brutality by night. John Lowrie lived an existence that few women could stand

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