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TSINGTAO'S

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AMERICA'S SLAVES,

WIRELESS IN

TURKEY.

WHITES IN BONDAGE IN TEXAS.

▸ | INCREASING POPULARITY,

CHARGES AGAINST -KU KLUX KLAN,

NEW YORK.

MAKING. PEASANT LIFE MORE GAY.

Slavery in, the form of peonage and involving even whites in its The popularity of wireless in Turkey is extraordinary. A year grip is now reported from Texas. At 9 o'clock on the afternoon of A man named Strape and his wife, Ag only a few enthusiasts ponsers. Thursday, July 7th, writes the who were flogged by five masked ed wireless nets, but to-day there are thousands of listeners through- North China Daily News corros- men, will be used as witnemes pendent, we left Tsingtao in against D. Osborne, who is charged

out Asiatic and European Turkey, special six swo-seater Studebaker only with assault. A man and his themselves unable to cope with the and Constantinople dealers And ear for a scout round the front wife, relations of Straps, were also demand for wireless material. of the Tsingtao defences, " We flogged being the New York Times corres- It is stated that Osborne was emless station in Turkey, that of At present there is only one wire- pondent, Hof Tsingtao, and theployed by their owner, the tenant Osmanié, 16 miles outside Con- focal Times man, a Chinese chaaf of the farms these people occupied, stantinople. Osmanié receives and four at the wheel and the dicky seat and that the foggings were done to transmita, and has a wavelength well occupied in consequence. We drive them away and make the of 1,200 metres; its call is "Radio reached Sau fang, with its great Straps work two farms.

Stambul" On June 13th, however, factories in no time, called in at

A case recently reported of s the station, which was entirely de-negro who escaped from Florida £100,000, will be opened at Angora. a new station, which has cost over void of life, there not being evan alleging that he had been kidnap and it is said that this station will a sentry on duty, and thence went ped when his car broke down end- be the most powerful in the Near on to Tsangkou, passing on the wayed in the freeing of a large plants-East. The control of wireless tele a surprising number of motor tion owner, who admitted thrash-graphy in Turkey is in the hands trucks and cara, all flying Japanese ing negro men and women with a Bags, and containing hefty loads of strap, but brought witnesses Post Office, the official Anatolian of a limited company in which the attractive-looking Chinese trunks, deny poonage. besides a plethora of human cargo.

News Agency, and the Barxite A characteristic outbreak", of

d'Affaires are interested Any one Esidently-some-people-were-get--|-whipping-seems-spreading in the ting nervous enough to convey South. A schoolmaster and thres £T14 (309.) and a heavy fine is im- can purchase a licence by paying themselves and belongings to Taing other men at Toccoa, Georgia, have posed on persons who listena" with- tao. Taangkou Station stands right been arrested on a charge of almost out possessing a licence. The daily beside the main road, and beyond flaying to death woman, they it at no distance lies Kiaochao Bay, charged with loose behaviour, and Programmas broadcast by the com- the railway line skirting its coast her son, aged 15, who tried to de "first begins at 5 p.m. and continues

pany is divided into two parts; the f towards Kiaochao, in the big sweep fend his mother. Three other fog until 7; the second is from 8.30 to gings were disclosed, two of them of women. The victims assert that

10.30. Darul-el-ban, the Turkish the floggers belong to the Ku Klux and Occidental music played by an Conservatoire, provides Oriental

the very day that New York was women."

In the State of Mississippi, on archestra composed of men and acclaiming Lindbergh as the type Turkish orchestra, plays Oriental Darul Talim, another of American chivalry an armed mob seized two negroes accused of music. shooting a foreman in a quarrel, poured petrol over them, and burn-

of the westward curve,

At length we came to where long road branches off towards waterworks, observable about a Klan. mile off upon our left front, in the direction of Kinochao, and here we saw what evidently support line of troops, alated under the trees along it, but having no trenches at all, About 100 yd. in advance along our | ed them to death. road, five soldiers were engaged in cutting down a small tree by the roadside, "a piece of very unnece sary vandalism, since it in no way obscared forward vision, but c'est la guerre. A

seed

Turkish Music.

The first item usually consists of Turkish music followed by Anato lian melodies composed by Rashid

Piano and violin solos by local Jemal and other Turkish musicians.

artists are also given, and there is

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defence, we saw nobody on duty To understand how light is the except the gun crews and not an infantryman or rifle in the trenches movement on foot to start a Tur- at our particular, point, of investi gation, over an area of mile or kish musical breadcasting society. Women Escorted by Elders.

40. The troops were in whatever Western European classical music We met, a rather pathetic little billets were obtainable behind the invariably finds a place in the pro- group by the roadside at another lines and those strolling about told

while us that the enemy are distant about,Į gramme, point, a party of village maidens, 10 i (13 miles) from this trench Agency given out a summary of the Evidently being removed to safety line. On our way back from the day's news. The jazz band from from some trendline village region, trenches to Tien Ho Kung Temp the Yildiz Casina is a regular and each with her bundle of treasures Ma, in command of that sector, and popular feature, and the prices of to rejoin our car, we met Captain in her hands, plodding along, and conversed with him. We were par- the Stambul Ceresis Market are ticularly strack with the courtesy escorted by one or two elders...

It was sometimes very difficult of all the soldiers we met. One eagerly awaited by merchants in scut party asked us if we were proceed the interier of Anatolia. After 10 and rough "going for the caring one to Kinochow,

p.m. it is the turn "of the principal but we had gone twenty miles and Artillery Protect Hinterland,

European capitals, and unless at Naochengyang village ahead of us We commenced the return gave hopes of an early arrival at journey about 8 o'clock and till ospheric conditions are usually our objective, the front trenches of that time absolutely had failed to bad, Moscow, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, discover any artillery support to and Rome can be heard within the defence. Passing through that the line. We therefore returned by

great distinctness. place, we emerged once more into another route, keeping.. more to-

Villages Enthusiastic wards the hills, though the road- the open country, noting as we

ways there were worse than those

Owing to the lack of railway and went that the village contained the by which we had gone forward read communications in Anatolia, first troops in billets we yet had However, eventually we struck the

In front of us lay Cheng Tsangkou-Taime road and went many of the smaller towns and yang, the railway line on our left homewards along it will we came villages have hitherto been virtually passing just to the south of it, and, to where a good road turns off it isolated from the outside world reaching that town, we turned left over

Faze the Tangahanling

to Litaun. All kind of musical and other enter down the main street to the rail through the hills way station and entered the plat all the way up towards the fills, tainment has been denied them, and form to chat with the officials. we passed through thick orchards, the only occasions on which their Here was one train itat about to the grapes, apricots, and apples inhabitants were able to hear con- leave for Tsingtao in ten minutes hanging in clusters ripening in the

certs were when they came to Only a few passengers were aboard, sun. High up on the hillsides and and practically no baggage

just beside our road, we came at Constantinople Now this is all The officials told us that, since last upon artillerymen digging gun

Far away -spots like the previous evening, six trains of emplacements, and just over the changed Japanese troops had passed on first ridge a battery of field-guns Erzerum and Diarbekir, riot to men. towards Kizochao and Taman from were parked, waiting their carriage tion smaller places in Eastern Tür- Tsingtao, and that the front de into position.

W.

learned the fence line was only two li beyond defence of the pass is considered of key, find themselves linked up, by the Chengyang railway bridge much importance, and that other means of the wireless, with Con- which crosses the Nanchuan or passes similarly are guarded all thestantinople and with Europe. Shinchino river-bed just west of the way to Chiu Shui (Nine Waters)

In Public Places. town.

half-way up the Laoshan valley.

for the Deputy to take steps never | SAINT'S COFFIN ROBBED. Well Built Trenches.

Because of their somewhat. pro- to leave his set unguarded. We considered the artillery pohibitive cost, wireless sets are not

RING WRENCHED FROM- A mile westward of the Cheng was too far back to afford support hotels, restaurants, cafes, chemists, tion ten miles behind the trenchline yet, within the reach of all, but

Politicians Take a Hand,

SKELETON, HAND. yang bridge run the trenches: They to the infantry in the trenches, so barbers' shops, and the like have now engaged in experimenting with A remarkable act of sacrilege and

The Turkish wireless company is commence from the bay, half-mile south of the bridge, and run dua guarding the paas, excepting in the them, complete with loud speakers, the broadcasting of speeches, as robbery has been committed at. shops, and the like have installed north-east to Trime, and, taking case of & retirement, when they with the result that these establish the Government have realized what Holy Trinity Church, Spalena, by advantage of the lie of the ground would come into action to cover, a locally, they command & clear view retreat. As an offensive position in The Anatolian peasantry are indeed during the coming electione. The climbing up the rod of a lightning ments are crowded every night. a useful ally wireless can be to them a burglar who secured an entry by of all the land in front for miles.

The trenches themselves are very support, that of the battery we saw said to be exceedingly impressed ill be broadcast will be "towards the roof of the cristy

first, occasion on which a speech conductor and washing a hole in well made indeed, being rivetted was wasted. We had come to the

by the possibilities of wireless. five feet: the face. is raised two fest enemy were inactive for fear of an to read or write, but they have an Party is holding its Congress the High Altar, broke open the throughout and dug to a depth of conclusion at the front that the Many of the peasants are unable the end of June when the Kemalist

In the church itself he went to attack from the north upon their ground

ear for music and appreciate the Angora The Ghazi Pasha will level. A fire step and Bank and rear, since we knew that material advantages which wireless then deliver a long and important tabernacle, took the ciborium and little places to deposit cartridges, Marshal Chang was sending rein-

speech in which he will review the scattered the communion ete, are suade imide the walks and forcements under his Chief-of-Stufbring to them... every 100 yd or so communication General La Teh Yin, to attack the Here and there one comes across tion in 1922 Arrangementé are

progress of Turkey mace the revolu about the church trenches angle their way up to the enemy troops at Kaomi and relieve a fanatic who thinks that wireless being made to broadcast his speech, old picture of the Madonna and On the aide altar he ruined an front line. We were followed by the Taingtao defending force. is an invention of the devil, and in throughout T soldiers, who kindly took us round;

Turkey, and ain took the pearls surrounding it, Leaving the Tangshan-Pass, we this connection an amusing story is Europe. As the President the which were of little value and we made our way to a com returned back through Litaun, well going the round of Constantinople. Republic will speak in Turkish, his manding eminence in the trench pleased with our reconaissance, and One of the Deputice, who has been speech will be unintelligible to the the altar of St. Phosperus, wheye The greatest damage was done, op line from whence we could see on earned o our return that a foremost in popularizing the wire- all sides. This site

but the the skeleton of the saint was en- is about

the previous evening also taken slieve that the sounds emanating line crosses the railway and is jaunt in their car and visited the from the wireless set come from the Legations abroad hope to be able a ring on the finger

of the left tosten to their chief. The Ghazi hand. Growned with a quick-firing gun trenches, before us. This confirms outside world. He persists in be. P

The burglar smashed the July 25th

position containing a one-pounder us in the belief that Tsingtao su lieving that there is some hidden to himself has done all he can cofin, broke off the finger, and took gun and crew. We noticed that mer visitors will discover a new spirit inside the box and so obsest wireless in Turkey, and he would finger were found on the floor.

encourage the development of the ring away. Pieces of the every little way along the trench pleasure in addition to the treated is he with this idea that he has appear to have been quite as suc. The thief escaped in the she Prices: $4, $3, & $2. line is a quick ring gun or trench that Taingtoo bee to offer in the threatened to begin at the whole cessful as he has been in other and way us he had entered, fut ft

mortar in position.

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