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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 19TH, 1924.

FROM PEKING TO LHASA.

BRIG-GENERAL G. PEREIRA'S GREAT JOURNEY.

CANTON NEWS.

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*LIASA, ENGLISHMAN FIRST,"

In order to enlarge the Government At the closing meeting for the session income in Caotou, the financial authe- of the Royal Geographical Society, hold rities there have decided to collect all on June 14th, Mujor-General Sir "Cecil públic durs and taxes in antional evr Pereira gave an account of the reartierney of the Republic, which is the able journey made by his brother, the silver dollar or Tai Yuan, instead of in tate Brigadier General George Pereira, Ingal subsidiary colus. The people. How- from Peking Co Lha in 1921-ever, are not permitted to tender the Brigading-General George Pereira short-Yuan in payment, but must pay in 20- ly after this great journey undertook an cont subsidiary coins of the 13th Year of other expedition to the Chinese-Tiletan the Republic minted at Canton at-25 borders, and succumbed to illness in the per cent. discount. "Any person having Intr autumn of last year.

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Sir Cecil Pereira, is the course of his tax of $100 to pay, will be required to | lecture, said that since Abbe Hue's four. tender 125 20-cent coins as the equivalent ney 70 years previously no European bad of Sico in dollars or Yuan. The people reached Lhnsa from the east. Many

are also asked to tender only new„coins, ; Mr.

those dated the 13th Year of the Re- Sorenson and Maie. Nerl, a French innuliately pripus to der. Deres public and not those of au cartier date. journey-they had all iseen turned back. The Canton Governinout Mint is making For many years it had been Genéral Pereira's ambition to reach Lhasa from profit daily by advising the the east. A chance occurred when the people to submit their old coing in ex- Chinese conquered Tibet, as the Chinese change for the new, as the old coins are Amban at Lhasa was a personal friend rally much higher in Gueness than the of his, but he was not free "as that timi

new ones. The people are powerless in to make the attempt. Eventually this regard, as the Governtient is qu started without permission 1 enter

A Canton shop Tibet, but he had a friend at headquar. lawing the old coins, ters and ellicial sanction to "coine

was fined $100 recently for refusing to Lhasa was received during the course ofgotiate the new coins. In the market, the jour After months of travel-of however, the new coins are actually dis which some account appeared in Tirconated. The Government itself virtually Times on General Pireta's arrival in Birst discounted its own coias by fixing ther 3 per cent. below the Chinese India-Lhasa was reached.

The journey (sid Sir Cecil Pereira) dollar or Tai Yuan. The old c-cent had been done in 37 stages from Chamdo Canton piece was only t5 per cent. below [near the eastern border of Tibet, below the dollar or Tai Yuan in general miles, and, the distance from Peking was cirenlation during the past few years, 4.200 miles, of which Gengral Pereira laud y constantly debasing the silver stand- walked over 2,500. He had successfullyard and outlawing good coins in order accomplished, the big journey on which to fores the circulation of the new and bis heart had been set for many years, depreciated, Dr. Sun Yat Sen may nake and his cablegram hene Lhasa, Eng some immediate profits, but will even. ishman first, showed his plensure that tually have to pay a high price for the the credit of this journey should come temporary relief, while giving a great

deal of dissatisfaction to the people. to England.

General Pereira had a charining resid

THE PRESS GANG REVIVED. ence at Delinka, outside Lhasa, put at his dispoon! by the Tsalong, Shape: the The heart-rending practice by Dr. Sus Commander-in-Chief of the Tibetan Yat Sen's percenaries of pressing non- Forces, and he had an extremely inter-combatant Cantonese into involuntary esting audience with the Dalai Lama, He military transportation service is been. et all the big Tibetan officials and four renewed. On July 16th in Canton City, Rugby boys, Tibetans, who had been edu-many coolies were taken while they were eated in England, one of them a lama walking along the Yk Tak, Wal. Tang, short stay at Lhasa, General Fung Ling, and other popular streets." Pereira travelled to Calcutta, and was On that day the police explains in each carried off to a nursing hospital suffer of the 36 police districts of the city were ing from clots of blood in the left leg required to press 40 enolies each in order brought on by the severe exertion of his to supply the th, the sth, and the oth jourdry. As soon as he was well he Regiments of the 2nd Cantonese Army started off, in January, 1923, on further Corps, the Sun Kink a Didly News arduous journeys.

stated. Not only in Canton, but also in The number of letters I have received Kongmodig press gangs have been at from friends of my brother showed what work during the bust few days. Not a kreat friendships he had formed" I have few of the well-to-do who had been press had them from all parts of China, from od as coolies, however, sünevvelerb in ocials, missionaries, and civilians; and getting way by paying $5 each ur bis friendships were not confined to inore. Europenius, for his diaris consentilly show the mutual trust and interest there was between him and many Chines of t

After

bigh rank.

A CITY'S RANSOM.

'Trade and other activities in Tungkan are still suspended pehding the retties

The dificulties of carrying through ont of muson money between the in- such a journey as this are obvious, but habitants of the city and the mereen- General Pereira was over a years, old artes of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. "Upon the when he started on it. He was lamed in July to honour the 200,000 local paper!

refusal of the Tungkan people early in a hunting accident soon after joining the Grenadier Guards, the lasting effects money issued by Dr. Suff's Himarese of which would haw deterred most Dercenaries and meet the demands of people from undertaking arduous jour-the Kwangsi-ites for a load of $100,000, neys on foot, and he suffered from the ten of the most-respreted and influential effects of frostbite incurred during his gentry of that eity were arrestul, te be shooting expedition in-the Ma'ping dis released only on compliance with the Several trict A will of iron and an unshakable avowed desires of their captors. determination to overcome all difficulties, women unable to contribute their rents to the mercenaries in, dus time are still were the cause of his sucurss.-Times.

held, In the last 12 mouths in Tungkan, the landlords were able to pollect their rents from the tenants," but four or five" the tex, the

rest being taken by hindit-troops occupying the city. The Intercenaries of Dr. Sun Yat Sen were not without income at Tungkin, nerord- ing to complaints the peopi pitished The master of the s.s. Nue On was They had been gelling 20 per equc, wer! yesterday morning charzed fore the tax on fre ght and passenger charges on Marine

boats to or from Tungkun nod atxú $900 Magistrate (Lient.-Comdr. Conway Hake, R.N.R.) with working trop gambling fees daily. cargo dh Sunday without the necessary. Harlone office permit. According to In-

MARINE COURT. WORKING CARGO. WITHOUT A 'PERMIT.

spector Bond the incident took place on | ARMS, IMPORTING - CILARGE. Sunday, July 13th.

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The defendant's exeuse was that his THREE CHINESE AGAIN PUT load of 220 tons had been discharged on the Saturday previous and what the In- spector saw being removed from the ship on the Sunday, belonged to the crew.

The Magistrale ordered the master to pay $75, the cost of the pennit, which he charged with importing arms into the is stated to have omitted applying for Colony without a licence At anbarlier and to pay a fine of $10.

OTHER CASES.

At the same Court, the coxswain of the motor-boat, Tab any No. 1 WILS Goed 20 for allowing his boat to be under way without a certified eoxswain being on board.

Two other masters of motor-bonts, Sing Foo, and the Siny Fuck, were fined each for not having certified engineers

on board.

For failing to observe the rules of the road the, coxswains of motor boat George Bing NO. 5 was oned.$10.

Three fishermen were finded each for using Crags in the na-d-war all chorage and the Wanchai anchorage ou July 18th. One of the defendants lead ed that he was fishing, for prawns.

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Chinese again appeared on Central Magistracy, yesterday, three

remand

hearing it was stated that £8,000 been sent to Europe for the purchase of arms, and ammunition.

One of the accused was defended by Mr. E. Davidson, and another Mr. H. C Macnamara.

Mr. Spencer, of the Easter Extra- sion, Australia and China Telegraph Co.. who said that copies of messages more than ten months old were destroy- ed, produced copies of sine telegrams which had been handed in between for transmission to our Choi Loi in September 1st and December 31st, 1927,

Europe.

The witness said that copies were not

kept of messages delivered bere

Telegraph Co. said that he had found Mr. Efferson, of the Great Norther

two telegramx from Shanghai alated September 1st And October 18, 1923. He also produced a tops of a cable from We gather from the Chinese Press that London reenived by his office on December Mr. Lansbury's activities in the House 30th, 1023, address to Chang Shan of Commons regarding the 'gckchafer Kutaico, as well as a copy of a cable from incident were prompted by a cable from Santiago da Cuba received on June 19th a group of members of the Chinese Inst. to the address of Chun Parliament who want to see the Com-Kunsingwoo. mander of the gunboat punished for The Magistrate pranted a further ad- manslaughter" and the relatives of the journment until July 24th, stating that executed junkmen compensated. Theyif by that time, the Crown could state a also desire that "British and other prima facie case, he would fixa further foreign gunboats should not enter the date for the hearing, but if the pinseca - Yangtsze river" Finafly they want an tion could not make a case against one apology for the incident from Great or more of the defendants, he would dis- Britain and China..

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