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THE CHINESE KOVIÑOUTE BULLETIN."'| The Shanchal Bureau of Markets was established by the Ministry of Finance in January, 1919. The Best index numa here were compiled for September of that year since then the work has been ca tuned till the present titue, ad every week series of index numbers are com piled sand published.

LONDON TO PEKING IN

ONE TRAIN.

[BY EN SMITH'), IN THE LONDON * EVENING NEWS"]

An overland route from Charing Cross tir the Far East opens up a new vista

"

CHINESE CHAOS. ANTAGONISM TO FOREIGNERS. LAWLESSNESS AND BANKRUPTCY.

[FROM TÜR PRICING CORRESPONDENT OF

THE TIMES"}

ان

The

of world travel. One thinks of the possis far from happy, either for Chinese on Life in this country at the present time ibility of travelling direct without change for foreigners. Nothing goes well. of carriage from was Fladivostock, tomases of government, as it used to be Wembley. What a fillip would be given unineted in a hose but not ineffective tu the Wembley Exhibition were a tunneli

JRKSOME TREATURA.

So they find irksome and intoleraliko alk ̧ those foreign treaties which limit their independence. They think they aught to be rid of extra-teritoriality altogetliar and to have the right to fix their own China inesorable on these points, and tariff, But they find the foreigner is

daily being reminded of förvigu righta instead of the prospect of erlief they are and foreign privileges, although in their

It is not an easy matter to obtain pries across the English Channel in actuat manner, is, entirely disorganized. The minds the foreigner is so wreak after the

spent, mainly in wages,

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sity in certain provinces, is neglected and disasters have occurred, and will surely rion, everywhere manifest, is thwarted iperease in nuber. The desire for endura. beruse the funds that should be avail the interior, because of the irregular exac alle are diverted. Trade langaishes in tions on goods in transit or the impes ths of illegal taxation:

quastations even in sich a place as Shang-

existence instead of being an aspiration. any of the Central Government has hai, where wholesale transactions are con

|been destroyed and what has arisen en The construction of the Channel joys little respect and to confidence. Connel stantly carried on in all lines of 'goods, ;

would provide employment. directly and, indirectly, for many thou Published weekly and monthly reports äve

The military rulers ir the provinces are sands of our own people.

responsible to themselves alone, with the available for gertain important commuli- The construction, moreover, wonki in

natural sousnyaence that the people are ties, such as the piece goods quotationsgolven ability on public funds. bende for the inordinate mumber of sol- exploited in order that provision may be Lofert & Company, the cotton yarn ease it is understood that the necessary diers, River conservancy, a vital neces

report of Niel Murray & Company, the fauls can be obtained even without any pig iron quotations of the Flan Yeh Pink guarantees under the Trade Facilities Company and the rive, flour, tea, oil Act. Over 30 millions of money would be cakes, metals, sugar and other daily mar ket reports in the, Chinese newspapers,

The construction of the tennel would There are many other annualities which denong the easiest to solve if the the Barca must eover, however, and world's great engineering probirins. The accordingly, when it was first established. French company has already obtained amanber of firnas handling these goods powers in "conjunction with the French were asked to supply the Borean with Northern Railway Company, and it but weekly reports come we willing terrains for the British company and the comply with the request, but others failed Southern Railway Company to obtain to report regularly. Later, a new plan Rarliamentary sanction for the work to was adopted by which members of the Bureau were sent to the frus to copy the

prbered.

quotations on the spit. This plan was also only partially successful. Because the weekly visits of the Baren representa Lives were not always welcome in the busy merchants...

£

WATERLOO WORLD TERMINUS.

taunel

was that he is unable to enforce any of the rights he vinims. Moreover, they judge from the series of outrages before and after Lincheng that fóreigners are so divided among themselves that they will legitimate grievauge,, not combine even to obtain redress for a

Now, atlicial China resists any demand, whether not on treaties or ou reason. frand case with France, although the The Chinese refuse to settle the gold French view is approved by all the Powers, and by foreign advisers in their own emphymrat, and notwithstanding. to payment in gold. They decline to ne that the Waichinopu had already agreed

and fouling the Treaty Ports, where it Capital is elding from the provinces may be investel safely unler foreign prcept the return of Weihaiwei on the very tection. Enterprise is stiffel beme reasonable terms arranged with a Chi- the Thuns are waiting in pounce upo They will not acede to the moderate re. is certain that nothing can flourish while nese commission appointed to negotiate. the profits. The pons faruber never Engs quirements of the Diplomatie Body in. when the Bandits may descend agen bin regard to the new Trade Mark Law, Burn his homestead, commandeer Eis Their appointed agent drafted and initial. stock, and carry away his best wife, and led an agreement with the Russian re- troops, supposed to be hunting the hang to China, yet, although their agent. prettiest children Dr. worse, when the presentative, making tremendous conces lits, billet themselves on him, taking all had been in daily commasiration with he has and ravishing his women-folk, the Cabinet throughout the negotiations.. impressed to surgy for troops and bare explanation of enurse, as regards the Even the coolie is never safe, for he is ratification was refused. There is the dits alike, and discharged with kicks when official attitude, that the present Govera exhausted. There is no law, and there ment are so weak and dependent upon fore no sceurity for anything or anyhelys the military raters that they will not take

whatever, for fear of subsequent Such is the position today in the greater the fit of signing anything to say that peace, comfort, and burpiness But this excuse is only partially valid.. have departed from the people.

and the real explanation is that what public opinion exists in the country is wholly in favour of resisting any conces

on to forgiguers, The Government of This day, in fact, i+

interpreting the pupular attitude.

That attitude is giving rise to some

The nacial success of the tunnel is certain, because even 60 per cent. of the existing traffic would ensure its paying attract and could handle successfully an its way, and who can doubt that it would

Panimous increase on the present trillie? The plan which is at present adójite The reverberations of its construction involves the employment of two or more upon unemployment would be enormous, reporters in each line of business whose Adjacent to Waterloo would need to part of China, and it is eageration duty it is to supply the Bureau with constructed a great world terminus. Thet: weekly market quotations in their respec-Channel funnel track would be electrific. tive fields. The pay ranges from a fowl the lines feeding wou'd be converted dollars up to 820 or 30 a month. The to the same system. exporters are brokers and shroffs of Chi-

A MOUNTAIN OF TROUBLE nese firms. Since there is always more considering the construction of

The new regime in Spain is seriously

The lot of the foreigner is not much than one man in each line. their reports beneath the Straits of Gibraltar connect, better. Missionaries in the interior are can be checked against each other, and ing Europe with North Africa. The pos-

never out of danger, as the toerus if any great, discrepancy is detected, the sibility is thus menus ap of a through ass of murder, kidnapping, robbery, uni- reporters are summoned to the Barrau to service from London to the Gold Coast. Churning of hanes testify, Stcancers on portant results. We have recently had give an explanation If the discrepancy is dne to market fluctuations, an average from which would endinte services, ride pirates, and those on the risers are has not elicited any sign of regret in I visualise our London as the centra certain coasts are always hable to attack the high-handed comb of General Fang of the quotations is taken as the price of the Channel Tunnel to practically the troops or bandits. Under this heading most flagrant outrage, because it was Yu-hsiang in the Legation Quarter, which. the commodity. The reporters are not entire world, with the exception of the there is a long roll of killed. wounded. dane by a Chinese official on a foreigner

eunstantly being fired upon either by

Chinese circles. The Bessell assault, a required to attend office except on such berations'

Australian and American Continents,

Perhaps eren America could be con- the Treaty Ports are comparatively safe orders of his employers, has not even:

and kidnapped foreigners. Fofenèrs in The list the Bereau now ruvers .147

in Chinese employment carrying, but the nected by train ferry across the Bering so far as life is concerned, but they have resulted in the trial of the delinquent, articles. They are divided into eight scroups as follow: Cereals,. 14 articles:

Strait during the summer months, forn mountain of trouble to carry." from East Cape (Asia) to Cape Prince great commercial stamp of 1991, in British Legation, fully supported by the ather fuel products, 196: textiles, 7:

despite the

persistent efforts of the (Alaska) is but 40 miles. This last, how. which the Chinese practically repainted British Governments. Another disquieting metals, 11 fuels, 1: lailing materials, 14: industrial materials. ; sundries,

ever, is a vision of the remote future. all their contracts, has left them all The articles are chosen either because following upon the constructim of the recently in the law carts of Shanghai section of the Tartar Wall förming one- The more or less immediate future heavily in debt, and it was publicly stated

case is that of the thinese soldier who because he had been removed from that they are principal imports or exports, or teressities of daily life. In making the Tunnel, would see the possibility of that nearly every firm in that great epi- index numbers, the 11 kinds of cereals through service from London to all Enrercial rentre was being kept out of the hundary of the Legation Quarter, and coutprise one, humbær, the za Mulher food | pean centres, of an overland route ta

hapkraptey Pourt by the assistance of the

to which areas as heen forbidden to- prxducts a second, the varieties of India and China-think of Charing Cross banks. To the hernie struggle to recover Chinese for 24 years, took upon himself textiles third, and the metals a

to Peking to Egypt and the Cape, zalvenes adverse strade conditions in the tossault three foreigners in one day. fourth. Four other Eudes nurubers are and through Europe to the Pacife at work! generally are, hul enough. But in Italian, American, and British, Instead made for fuels, building materials, indus

Vladivostock.

Chiffa itself trade is being hampered in by the Chinese Press, the netion was

of this impudent attack being deprevnte trial materials and sundries, and an aver

ang directions by the Vonditions arising exeusel on the ground that the man nge is taken of these four which is called

out of the political situation, the militarurely had the right to resent being turn- the index number for "miscellaneouIM

ist inculus, and the insecurity, The goods. The latter is compared with the iles numbers for cercals, other food products, textiles and metals, and a final average is taken.of these five numbers. Hence some weighting is implied in this system of grouping, the price of any of the 11 metal having more weight than that of any kind of textiles, and the lat ter more than any of the building or in dustrial materials.

The month of Sentraler, 1919, was urixinally taken, as the hesie period, but as that is a post-war year when prices were generally above normal, the basic period was later changed to February; in. Since 10, the nw basic period was used along with the old, and two inlex unibers were published every! month calentated on the bases of these two periods. In August, 1024, however, the kl basis was given up, and indox numbers have situve been compared with the prices of Feluary, 1913,

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To make this possible we red but eure- struct a tunnel 22 miles long. 2

ALLEGED SHAMEEN

SMUGGLERS.

The

treaties which govern trade are being off a spot that was a sieved national widely violated, and the ebarges on goods served that the Tartar Wall outside the possession neidentally my be ob preceding up Paduty are trebleder Legation Quarter is forbidden to Chinese quadrupled by illegal taxation. Besides

TEASHOP "PROPAGANDA.

the "default is private Chinese, amount by the Chinese police regulations. It A CHINESE COOK "ARRESTED.

Stut many millions sterling, the Goversy annst he said that the soldier, like. ment is a defaulter for goods supplied to grader way the popular feeling against the Government, was interpreting in a A Chinese cook in the employ of a

the railways and other public institutions forefam firm was arrested at the French The firus involved have spent themselves to the extent of £10,000,000-£13,000,000.

foreigners. Kate of the Shameen early on Mudassing the Governinent for payment, morning. He was stopped by a ukong practically without any result whatever.It is possible to make too much out of and a basket he was carrying was ex for it is notorious that the Government is these incidents and to draw wider con- ained. In is were found 250 rounds of totally bankrupt anamgnition The arrested man wis

Indeed, the Chinese clusions than are really justified. The handed over to the Chinese authorities Comission recently aminted to inquire Chinese, as a whole, are a peaceable am The Shameen Poles aathorities suspect that no reseste fincs from the provinces feeling between individual foreigners and ints the facial situation has reported friendly people, and there is so much good.

engaged in smuggling on a large sanje a foreign form on the Shamento be

June 3rd.

ATDELSTAX RULES.

It

at that the income of the Government Chibcne and such business relation represents only 7 per cent, of the ordinary ship of a satisfactory character that it requirements. In these circumstances it would be a mistake to suppose that the lain that there is no possibility of growing antagonism is universal. But the A BOLSHEVIC CARTOON." anything being done to liquidate the un-fact has to be faced that it is among the scured debts of the Botgronent, amount articulate elements in the country that The following letter has appeared in

ing to over £20.000.000, due in Japan, the spirit of nationalism is becoming The method of computation adopted is The Times:

France, the United States, and Creat manifest in the disagreeable" form of in- that of the simple aritmetic average. A

"Sit-The current number of the Purdu

Britain. price relatie is found for each article with the official organ of the Soviets, contains

tenso jealousy of the privileged position Foreign discomfort in China is greatly of foreigners. Publje opinion is confinest respect to the hurie period, and, the prices cartoon. This represents the radick-incrensel by the antagonism which is peastically to those who have received relative of all articles in eich group are ing gentlemen, arm in arm, in tophate, slowly but surely growing up between the foreign education abroad or in China, to then added and divided by the number of one of which is encircled by a nimbus.inese and other nationalities. It does those who have come into contact with articles in the group For instance, if the Underneath are their bars: The not seem to be the same sort of racial foreigners at the Treaty ports and elso peter relative of glutinous rive with respect King of England, MarDuzakland feeling that developed go viciously in the where, and to the official and anlitary to February, 1913, is 1, that of white Jesus Christ." The representatives of Boxer Rebellion. The foreigner was then classes. A combined number only au rice, 189, of connnon, rice, 138low the Soviets are now in London, regarded advertised as a monster who it was a infinitesimal proportion of the whole wheat, 154, wheat Bour, 105, Wuhu peas, as our guests, and were recived by his virtue to destroy. But foreigners, bow-population, as they constitute the 172. Honth yellow beans, 1, Hanko Majesty at yesterday's levee, two days lays are better understood and realized population which can excite the feelings broad beans, 136, mum seeds, 171, after the arrival of this tuner of the to be human beings with all the usual of the ignorant and credible whole. bean oil, 155, Hu Feng ran. 144. Shan Prag in England from Mosew. I

characteristics. Thousands of Chinese is well established that most outbursts tang groundnuts, 148, groundout all. 138 understand that the Sovies representa have been abroad, and tens of thousands against foreigners in this country, in the and beanvake, 151, then the total is.2.192 Lives are still in Toulon

have been in contact with foreigners here, pust have been incited by minor offieints and the index number for the serent group

and the Chinese know that, individually who did not realize the danger of their is 1016. There is a weighting for any

we have our full shace of the good quali- action. To-day it is the ill-informed article except that, through the inclusion

ties. But in them is arising a spirit of propaganda in the Press and in the ten- of three kinds of rice, twn kinds of beans

nationalism that was formerly absent, shops which is likely to provoke sudde plus bean oil and heanake, and the in-submitted and after being passed by the responsible for this new development, but results.

Contact with foreigners is no doubt partly gusts of clusion of both groundnut and grenndant Commission, was referred to the Finance there are other causes that are operating

panion having disastrous oil, in the same group, these commodities Ministry.

There can only one Insurance are to that extent unconsciously, weighted.

inore powerfully. The defeat of Hussin against occurrences of this kind and that As it is now compiled, the index num adopted some features of the abse men-was not, uecesarily the inferior of the foreigner and the treaties hy virtue of The Shanghai Bureau of Markets has by Japan showed thein that an Asiatic is the restoration of respect for the ber serves only to indiente general price tioned plau, and is going to issue two European. Their own Revolution has which he has the right to be here. To fluctuations. However, there is an urgent series of index numbers, pine fur prices of proved to them that established things this end it is at least necessary that need of price investigations for imported imports at Shanghai and the other for are not unbreakable," goods in connection with tariff revision, cost of "living. The former is along !!

Above all the restress thould be obtained for every and at the last revision in Shanghai in linea suggested in the plan, bait as price obligations to a great foreign Power and

Great War has released them from their oufeage, and danges exacted for any 1822. it was proposed by the deleuntes of investigations must be carried out, not enabled them to take the initiative in where the Government is not directly violation of treaty.There, will e, cakes the different powers concerned that index only in Shanghai, but also in Canton, dealing with Russia, once, to them, the responsible and where perhaps it would numbers compiled on the basis of such Dairen, Tientsin and Hankow, the index most dangerous of the nations. Even be unfair to exact penalties. But in all investigations should also be consulted in numbers made by the Shanghai Berat Inpan, for a time a serious menace, has cases occurring within the presumed the future." With this purpose in view. will not yet serve the purpose of future ceased to threaten, and has become it jurisdiction of the Peking Government," the Tariff Commission of the Ministry of tariff revizion. Similar work should be suitor for their good will. Their distin-Legations individually, or the Diplo Foreign Affairs asked a member of the done in the other four cities, and all the guished treatment at the Washington matic. Body a whole, must be prompt Barenu of Economic Information, who is details of the plan put into execution. Conference, followed by the retrocession and Grm. If not, outrages will assuredly. a technical expert of that Commission, With this object in view there is now of Shantung, awoke in them a spirit of increase in number, and treute violations to draw ap a plan for making a new series

pride and independence and now they in flagranty and in the end the clouds of index numbers which would be useful

are all for self-determination as a right that are now small will have become large, for tariff revision. The plan was duly

due to the exalted position which they and the future dangerous to foreigners, (Vontinued at foot of west column),

have attained,

and Chinese alike,

Bureau of Markets at Tanker and Tien- tein mid the Bureau of Econobae Informs tion is itself carrying on price investigt tions in Dairea and Canton.