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ROADS BEPAIRED AND OLD BUILDINGS PULLED DOWN.

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· MANCHURIAN TRADE 'DEVELOPS,

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HARBIN, August 1st. A correspondent from Tenghsien, To look at Harbin "to-day "and at Asis Bask303 2001. Canton lusurance........$590 sel. Shantung, under the date of what it was a year ago, the change China Underwriters now. SHANGHAI, August 30th.

is wonderful and vertainly the August 17th, writes that two of Municipal Council must be praised Union Luurstice

North

L. 143 num, The North Railway Station yes Chang Tiang Chang's officers are for the manner in which they have Yangtase insurance... 137 buy. terday presented a distinctly war now in that city recruiting bandits insisted on good pavements and the Chinu Fire Laurance....$210 buy. like appearance. As in the pre- for his army. This in all pro- pulling down of old buildings. They Hong Kong Fire Las....000 1.0m, rious wars in the districts round bability simply means furnishing have a lot to fight with as there are

..133 buy. these rascals with rifles and am- many Chinese who object to clean-Steamboats Shanghai, the military had taken munitions for future devilments;

sel liness and sanitation. There is the Hong Kon

Kong fuge cus, sel. complete possession of the waiting for when soldiers in the regular Three Province Bank which insists in Indo-China (Prof.) 30 now,

Da rooms and platforms and coolie-(1) army have been known to de keeping a garbage box ou the pare

(Def.)18 buy. tamp to the hills and become ment in front of the bank causing Shell Ta

Transporta scldiers munched their chow all over bandits, can we expect these men, people to hold their noses when Star Ferries

9. Rom. ***13480 buy. the place. The main entrance to now kindly refitted by the govern they pass. The police are power-

Waterboa

...$17 com China Sagary

$15 OL the station proper had been closed ments, not to return to their vomitless cope with

nuisance Mabon Bugars again!

which is countenanced by such early in the day and the only en-

bank. trance was through the Shanghai Weasing booking office. This was strictly guarded by the youthful Nationalist soldiers armed with

rides.

A man who should know reports a that Sun Chuan Fang's forces are now down the line within a hun- dred odd from Pukow, but the res Immort needs confrmation-also that eng's runs have not re: treated more than 100 li west of Hauchowiu. During the early afteracon a The Southern Army, in its re troop train conveying some seven treat, seems to have "forfeited the hundred captured Suz Chuan Faustion among the people who aver

meagre remains of its good reputa troops arrived at the station that of

the three acourges, Chiang's troops, the Northern have a somewhat less resemblance forces, and Sun's army, the latter

to a swarm of locusts.

These all had been shorn of their Northern uniforms and were being for the most part herded in the dözen freight wagons which brought them from Lungtan by Nationalist soldiers carrying automatic rifles However, they seemed to be resign ed to their new allegiance as is the usual case in captured Chinese army, and were causing no trouble:

Tickets on the railway are being sold south Esuchowfu only, and no one should attempt to travel who is not furnished with a good stock of forbearance.

A recent

traveller down the line reports that the first class compartments were Alled with petty officers, one to a room, and the stench of their opium filled the car. Attempting to enter a second class compart ment, he found two soldiers in it, beat a hasty retreat. who curaed him so soundly that he

Wounded Coming Too. It is said that the number of cap tured, Sun Chuan Fang troops now China insists that she should be in Shanghai and at Lunghua num treated by other cations 19 an ber about 1,500, with several han equal, but fails to perceive that she ist conduct herself as a civilised dred more reported to be or the nation before such zations will so way here. These, it is said, will treat her, for equality is a matter be taken on to Hangchow at the of merit, not something which can earliest possible moment, where he forced. Our civilised, enlighten- they are likely to be incorporated ed, Chinese friends-for whom all into the armies of the Nationalists. have respect, and with whom we In addition to the captives who sympathise, suffer on account of the arrived on the train during the coarte insolence of others. Their afternoon, there were reported to best course would be to follow the be some twenty wounded Nation example of Booker Washington 2nd alist soldiers. These were immedi do all in their power to make their ately transferred to the Red Cross fellow Hospital

Countrymen worthy of Chinese territory respect, for them, and then, only There are reported to be quite a then can and will they be treated number of seriously-wounded Na-

as equali tionalists en route to Shanghai. In making this criticism, one

The fighting yesterday along the should not omit to say that com. Lungtan front was not as heavy as pared with forty years ago.. there on the previous day, it is said." It is believed that Sun Chuan Fang's least in Shantung, and foreign

has been a great improvement a men have suffered severe reverses. travellers receive nothing. According

ад authoritative friendly treatment from the mer- scurce he now has about 10,000 men chant class, the people at large, this side of the river and those are and even from many of the soldiers; eut-numbered several times by the but the ballies are still too numer Nationalist forces.

ous, and oicers and soldiers, like those who committed the outrages at Narking and elsewhere, not un- equal treaties are the real barrier to China's progress.-P. and Timea.

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to

The headquarters of the Nation- alist forces in the North Station are well littered with Nationalist and anti-foreign posters.

Chinese Political Art. On the main "doorway of the station on the inside is hanging a poster depicting a foreigner down,cn his knees with a Nationalist twist- ing his car. Suitable characters tel of the suffering he is under- going at the hands of the Chinese. On the pillars of the waiting room are a series of posters with pictures on them representing the foreigner as a cat playing with a cage of ice. The lion and the tiger also furnish their share in the cartoons. The Northern mitarista are represented devils.

This decorative scheme is more or less arried out through the outer precincts of the station weib

.

CRIME AT SHANGHAL

RAID ON CHAPEI HOUSE,

ARRESTS AND BOOTY RECOVERED.

but

SHANGHAI, August 30th. authorities of Chapel, local muni

With the permission of the police cipal police, headed by P.C. S. enton raided a house in Chapel, at 205, Kung Yce Lee, in search of part of a gang of armed robbers who held up and robbed a Chinese

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Da (single) yard. Then there are certain ex- Shanghai Lowe...Tle, & cou tra territorials who think that they Baubs

Si bay. can do what they like and with Tronsk

19/3 uom. whom the Council has also much Ural Campinas trouble. For instance there is a K & K Wharts...$112.bay. Britisher, who covers the actions of H., & W. Docks.........$35 20. a Russian who keeps so-called Hor

Langkaw

The 140 bay. Furnished Apartments" and this New Engineerings,

***TIs. buy. Britisher serves in a high position: Shanghai Docka

buy. Again abere is another Britisher who openly does not pay his_rent and laughs at the Municipal Coun- cil. Such men do not raise the prestige of the British nation in Chinese eyes and should be severo- ly dealt with.

A Telephone Catastrophe. Harbin was six hours without telephone service in the busy nours

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Japanese Imports.

Manchuria, Japanese merchants are With the rapid development of desirous of securing the market and for this purpose a syndicate has manufactures into the country, five been formed to import Japanese million yen having already been week there are many visitors from subscribed for this purpose. Every Japan and they all go back with the story of the wealth of Man churia and the necessity of getting: hold of the market.

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Do. (old).60 nom LO. (now)......$i sel China Ligbie¡comb........$124 zen.

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EXCHANGE.

ULOSING QUOTATIONS.

ON LONDON,-*-*

September 6th, 1921.

Telegraphic Transfer ...1/11 - Bank Bills, on demand ...1/11 7:16 Bank Bill, at 30 days'aight Bank Billa, at "months"

Navigation Figures.

the . E. H. has just given out The Commercial Department of

the goods trame on the river Sun- some of the figures connected with

gari this year. Since the begin ning of the navigation till. August 1st more than 29,000,000 poods of grain have been brought by river to Harbin, a quantity which is the of Manchuria. Besides gain there record for any year in the history

and 600,000 pueds of coals, brought have been 1,000,000 poods of timber to Harbie. Owing to the wonder- ful high water his scason nil steamers and barges have been working at top speed and practi cally all the grain stored in the villages has been brought to Har bin, thus giving the river fleet an opportunity to take up the carriage of timber. For this purpose several barges have been despatched to the Amur where timber is theaper than on the Sungari. At the same time that grain has been brought here, Ux Boxnar about 1,300,000 poods of textiles and hardware have been shipped to the river villages and this means great improvement in trade here.

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0.2.E, Board Meeting. The cag postponed haard meet- ing has been held at last at this According to reports from Chinese shop at 357, Cunningham Road. were passed all the arrangements MANILA and...

The robbers obtained nearly 500.. made between the President and

sources a strict watch is being kept

The Fear of a Strike.

must be deposited half in the Three Province Bunk and half in the Dal bank, and the latter has to pay over. 18,000,000 gold roubles to the

former.

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at the North Station as well as in hers escaped before the arrival of sion of cash. In the future all cash At the Chapei dwelling the rob. Vice-President regarding the divi- other parts of Chinese territory for the army of Sun Chuan Fang's the police but two women, wives of spies. Careful watch is also being the suspected men, were arrested Eept for the Communists and orders and held for aiding and abetting for the arrest of more than a scare the robbers. A search of the house revealed several loaded pistols, a of persons have been inade.

large sum of money which is be lieved to be the proceeds of armed

Great Ficods In Ussuri. The General Labour Union, fear- robberies, and a quantity of am- The rains in the Ussuri have ing a strike on account of the rest-munition for pistols..

played havce with the railway line leas conditions, has issued a circolar At the time of the robbery in the and traffic cannot be resumed for. to the effect that all workers should Settlement à Chinese constable on ten days at the very least. exercise caution when about to go duty "80 feet away heard and saw line is under water for a distance The infuence of the reubject to nothing unusual, he claimed. After of to kilometres, in some places to reactionaries. robbers, four in number, had a depth of over 20 feet. Many "The light-minded will go on strike left, the premises the alarm was village houses have been swept over a trivial matter," it continues, raised and Settlement police respon- away by the food, people being but will never receive the assist. ded. "A number of Chinese detec drowned, while the great rice ance of the union. The labourers tires and constables scoured the plantations are all destroyed. The are aware that the Comminists are neighbourhood and sighted two sus robbing them of their privileges. pects. The two men ran but were More than 300,000 labourers have caught near the North Thibet Road been ruined by communism at Han- Bridge.

kow and are out of employment. If They admitted participating in the Communists are found to be in the robbery and gave the names and timidating the workers of any con-address of their accomplices. This cern and urging them to strike, they information led to the raid on the should be handed over to us. We house in Chapei. will deal rigorously with them. Two other robberies were report Please ware al labourers."

ed in the Settlement on Monday Posters, said to be emanating afternoon and night, one being an from the Shanghai Students Union, armed highway robbery in which o were distributed throughout Chinese woman was relieved of a gold territory on Sunday-and-yesterday, bángle valued at $49 These were both anti-foreign and Anti-Northern in character and call ed on all to sever economic relations with the British and to beat down the militarista.

The armed robber who wes Founded in a gun battle with police of the Harbin Road Station on Monday night, yesterday died of his wounds-Shanghai Times.

The

C. E. R. Board voted a sum of 20,000 gold roubles for the sufferers and this amount was immediately. telegraphed to Habarovsk to the Committee attending to those who have become homeless.

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124

Paris

Brussels

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Berlin

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Prague

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Madrid Athens

Rio

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98.78 287.

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4.86.1/22 25.21 89.55.

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Visit From Japanese Minister. The Minister of Foreiga Afairs, 3. Mon, has just paid a visit to Harbin, remaining here three days.. In an interview which he gave to Russian and Japanese pressmen, he started that Japan would insist on

tees all Treaty obligations made by China being carried out. Being here in a private capacity he did not visit any Chinese oficials and there was no oficial reception of any kind.-Shanghai Times.

Lisbon Bucharest

Buenos Aires Hobe

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