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ENGLISHWOMAN'S IMPRESSION OF

HANKOW.

DIRT, DISEASE AND DISORDER.

APPALLING POVERTY OF THE PEOPLE.

BY DORIS BADDOW,]

PERING

officials in question, mainly English, „One's first and prevailing impres have never ceased their attendance, sion on returning to Hankow is the and never been interfered with pathetic air of neglect which over-even when decisions were not to shallows the whole place."

the liking of the crowds,

In all cases when active hostility

Where formerly ufider the régime

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

UNDERGROUND FORT TO GUARD THE FAULTS,

BURGLAR PROOF.

In October, the great new vaults d the Bank of England will be nearing completion..

And if this should catch thei glistening, eye

of any

master- cracksman who would like to make a preliminary survey with a view to future operations he may as well; know "right away that the work

is being carried out under condi

to approach the

of Municipalities, one found clean has been shown to foreigners, it has sidewalks; trim grass lawns edging bern inspired and insited by the tions which make is impossible for the Bund, with iron chains, as bar-local Government, and only when any stranger riers from the road, well-swept festered by them with promises of vaults: 'streets, in good repair, and proper loot, does it continue.

All workmen's entrances. ага Twice in the fortnigh: I spent in guarded and there are a chain of traffic control, now there is th unspeakable, great holes in the Hankow in July, clashes took place detectives, an armed night guard, road, all public property, stolen, in the street between various facand a system of alarm hells cover- and police altaid to correct anyong, tinas or Unions, in each case reing every yard of the ground. in case they should be taken off to sylting in dead and wounded being But even more heart-breaking for some Union

Headquarters by left for hours' about the main street the Moriartys and Raffles and pickets, and there beaten severely. [for all to wee.

Jimmy Valentines of the under Before the Natiorialist rule, the

Appalling" Poverty.

world are these facts. The con- carrying coolies never thought of The poverty of the general Chi-struction of the new vaults em- using the pavements, but walked in nese poorer class is appalling. To builder, the most modern type of bodies the latest designs of the safe- the roads with their burdens; now cite one case, women who were em-reinforced concrete and the finest half-naked and filthy men jostle ployed as washerwomen, or baby product of British steel foundries. passers-by and take up more than amahs (nurses) by foreign families. their share of room.

have been out of work since January, and their husbands, who are in most cases house "servants China except in the two cases above servants are men in -were dismissed when the foreign on the river front. men were concentrated in ansaes

Boggara Resting-Placo. · The Bund, or River front. which was the only walk for children in the winter, and a pleasant place to stroll in the evening in the summer. i now a resting place, for beggars in all stages of every imaginable disease.

all house

As the Chinese of that class all live from hand to mouth, this com picte cessation of labour spells starvation: the same fate has be

Hankow is now A place almost impossible for Englishwomen to live in. The cost of living is a fallen wharf coolies with the stop orbitant, due to various factors, one of the chief being that, owing to the iniquitous taxes, which amount in all at present to about 87 per cent, no retailer of dried gorda can afford to replenish his "stocks, and is making what he can on bis present store.

page of shipping, and all other in dustrial werkers dre in a similar plight. There is no system of out door relief, and one can literally ser the bones sticking through the skin of these men.

The "Hurdles."

The vaults will constitute an im- mense underground fork, proof against any assault from the air or tunnels and inspection passages. on the land, and honeycombed with

Dynamite could not penetrate the walls of these vaults, and it would" take days of hard work with an oxyacetylene apparatus to make any daroad into the steel, doors guarding even the entrances.

Any crooks who in their mis- guided enthusiasm attempted to break into the new Bank of Eng- land defences would have to:

Break through'n 30 feet deep pro- tecting wall of reinforced concrete 7ft. 8in. thick built underground all round the Bank's island pre-

Rickshaw coolics are hungry and.mises. The other factor is the money be paid in coppers, but now will to this wall.

therefore, truculent. They used to Cross a passage running parallel question, Nationalist paper money take only silver, and to ride in Make their way to where great is only worth 60 per cent of foreign jasued banknotes or silver, and all rickshaw unaccompanied after double steel grilles are built into

Any slabs of concrete, copper coins are also being with sundown is impossible for drawn. Where previously the cook woman, as payment will be demand- went to market and either paid ind half-way on the gourney, and the coppers or received change in the resulting scene is most unpleasant,

to put it mildly, . · ordinary way for a dollar, now there is no change, and he is forced to spend a whole dollar in each shop.

of a river steamer,

Water Supply Falling.

Cut through these steel grilles. which will be under armed guard day and night.

Break epen the actual vault doors of solid steel and weighing the pair of them-over 24 tons.

A sign of the deterioration of public service is being made ob-

Secret Tannel.. If Nationalist money is offered, vious in the water supply. In build- Then, provided, of course, that the price is at once raised about ings of more than two storeys no they had eluded the guard, out 40 per cent. to keep in line with water whatever is obtainable above witted the mechanical alarmi fixed the foreign rate. Most post now the ground ficor between 7 a.m. and both inside and outside the vaults, have groceries sent up from Shang-7 p.m. There is no possibility of and had not forgotten the secret hai in charge of one of the officers having any washing-up or washing doors apt to close silently behind clothes done between those hours, them, the bullion might be theirs Private servants have all been and the latter in the summer is a-if they could get away with it! absolutely loyal, and in a case have I heard of any attempt at ex- All modern 'sanitary arrangements tortion, betrayal, or theft, but are also rendered useless, a vital servants in clubs, hotels, and haatel matter with the thermometer stand have behaved extremely badly and ing perpetually over 90 degrees in are most difficult to control at pre-the shade. This failure of pressure sent

is attributed to tapping of the

necessity,

No Anti-Foreign Feeling. mains in the native city, due to lack

The underground armed guard will patrol the passage fringing each of the three floors of the vaults below the street level, and this passage will isolate the vaults from the can-. crete wall built into the earth.

The largest and main vault, 30 feet below ground," will be almost

the Dank stands. On the second and third floors will be smaller vaults. Through these will run t peculiar tunaal of reinforced con- crete.

There is no outward manifestyof police supervision, and also taas large as the island site on which tion of anti-foreign feeling in the dismissal of the foreign super flank at present whatever the visory staff at the waterworks trouble seems to be entirely in- So far the electric light and ternal and inter-factional, Foreign-pover works are still run by Eng ers go out in open cars to the lishmen, and the service is normal, International Race Club, through but this will probably not be allow the worst slum in the town, to acted to continue long, and the same as starters, stewards, and super-rot and deeny will then set in there. vise the running of the cash sweeps One leaves Hankow with a feel and pari mituel, and move freely ing of deep sadness, and bitter among crowds of 50.000 or mare regret that what was onco so with no hindrance or annoyance Buurishing and pleasant a place whatever. This has gone on ever should in so short a time have be since January, and in spite of pro-come so utterly and completely dis- tests from official quarters, the organised.-Daily Ezprena.

TELEVISION IN THE FUTURE.

[BY WILLIAM J. BRITTAIN.]

MUNICH.

A Closely Guarded Secret. This underground tunnel is about it. in diameter, but its actual purpose is a closely guarded secret. Not even the workinen who are con- structing it have the slightest idea of the use to which it will be put. The walls of the vaults themselves are being built of heavily inter- laced steelwork covered to a thick- ness of 4 ft. 0 in. with concrete.

The 12-ton steel doors opening From à tube fired to the neck into the vaults are fascinating ob- stream electrons. The stream is jects of the safemaker's skill. They directed by electro-magnets to can be swung backwards and for traverse the screen with exactly the wards on their hinges by a child; movement with which the object is but when the massive looks are it being "explored" at the transmit position it would need a great ex- ter. The screen is fluorescent and plosive force to make any impres

Building the Picture,

sicin.

AN "INVASION" STORY.

Down a garden path a distin-glows as the rays touch it... guished-looking man in a light jac- ket and cotton shorts came to greet me when I went to see how Profes This glow, bright in places, Bor Dr. Max Dieckmann was pro- builds up the picture. Mr. gressing in his work towards televi Rudol Heil, one of my assistants, RADIO ENTHUSIASTS ALARM- sion. He took me up, the garden is working with me in television," path to an experimental atalion het Dr. Dirckmann told me. has built in the glorious country have only just begun to work with just outside Munich-not the ortho- our present method of transmit- dor retreat for a scientific investiting, but we have obtained promis gator, but an ideal one.

ing results with our old apparatus.

am

"We

"ED IN AUSTRALIA:

ADELAIDE, August 9th." The broadcasting of a one-art play, "An Imaginary Invasion." from an Adelaide radio station caused considerable alarms among

"I have scrapped my sending "Now we hope shortly to im- apparatus altogether," said Dr. prave on the present results in feminine listeners who missed the Dieckmann."I used oscillating | America and elsewhere. "Un-

preliminary explanation and were mirrors, but I have come to the doubtedly rough television, is Pos startled to learn that an enemy bad conclusion that they will not bring sible already. We can achieve pic landed on the coast, the announce SUCCES. Instead?

using tures made up of obvious dots. cathode rays. I do not want you

And you

a receiving ment being followed by sounds re- can have to give to the world just yet exact screen as large as you like assembling bombs and gunfire. ly how I am working, but I will large sa that," said Dr. Dieck- At least two women fainted by their wireless sets, and another explain."

mzan, pointing to the front of a He took a sheet of paper and great cupboard." But the larger rushed out in the street, alarming PRICE: 50 Cts. per bottle filled it with sketches showing how your screen is the larger are the her neighbours by an incoherent

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Already Dr. Dieckmann isor tyo we are hoping to have some It will be recalled that many harnessing electric particles in the quite good results to show you." English listeners were greaty per receiver which he is retaining It With his apparatus a weather turbed by a skit produced by the is on the principle of the Crookes | chart, and a picture are broadcast B.B.C. some time ago, giving a tubes, and looks like a round, long every day from the Munich radio realistic. description of a revolution necked bottle, with a calico screen station, and there are many re-in this country. The r

The scenario was near the bottom

written by Father Knox.

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