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FLEEING FROM WAR AND. POVERTY.

MIGRATION TO MAN,

CHURIA.

10,000 A MONTH.'

MOVEMENT HAS NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.

The greatest migration in the world to-day, equal, says the Daily Minil, to the grent movement of peoples from Europe to the United States when that movement was at its height, is taking place into the vast unsettled plains of Manchuria, This year almost a million new

and

AMERICA'S FAR EAST

TRADE..

INCREASE LAST YEAR.

SOME BIG FIGURES.

WASHINGTON, Sept., 19th.

HOW THE "ST.

RAPHAEL

SET OUT!

"

AT THE

CAPTAIN HAMILTON'S

FOREBODINGS.

Exporta fram the United States NEARLY AN INITIAL SMASH. to the Far East during the fiscal,

Fear 1023-23 show A gain of A London paper to hand gives 201,230,000 or about 8 per cent. over the following account of the start that of 1924-23, recording to J. H. of the starred St. Baphart en Nan, Regional Information Divi- her attempt to cross the Atlantic sien, Department of Commerce. from England. Imports, however, declined almost Colonel Minchin and Captain per cent. to $1,223,489,000, largely Leslie Hamilten, both famous fly- cause of lower prices in rawing men were the pilots and they sik, crude rubber, sugar and jute bad as passenger the sexagenarian products.

Princess Lowenstein-Wertherin, the

де

settlers, fleeing from poverty and During 1027 approximately to English widow of a German prince. war, will move from over-populated per cent, of the United States ex-The aeroplane was sighted by an war-wracked Shantung and parts to the Orient consisted of oil tanker the furiah Jacey sco Chilli into the Last West off seven products: Ray cotton valued miles from Ireland and that was North Manchatin.

at 8153,119,000; mineral oils, at the last seen of it. The special por- Through the ancient gateway in 0,476,000; automotive products, respondeat, of our contemporary the Great Wall at Shanhaikwan and

át $58,232,000; machinery at alates:

I was the last to shake hands through the modern port of Dairer. $22.000; irea and steel, are pouring a great multitude, $5,000; tobacco, products, at with Colonel Minchin and Captain 10.000 a month. The Governments 830,240,000; and lumber,

Leslie Hamilton when they left of the Manchurian provinces are

$20,000,000. In contrast raw and Uparon, Wilts, to fly to Ottawa, giving great assistance to the mig manufactured silk, crude rubber and of all the crowd assembled to ration. Railways are charging only and jute products made up prae- watch the departure, I was perhaps a nominal amount for transportation tially 64 per cent. of the total the only one to witness the narrow to the able immigrant and providing

value of imports.

escape of the St. Raphael from free passage for men and women

crashing when it rose just over the over 50 years old and to all children

sinken road. under 10.

The newcomers, as a rule, head for the territory lying along the undefined border of Inner Mongolia, where & strange situation is being brought about by them. In many cases they acquire crop-sharing lenses on land owned by the various Princes of Mongolia, but while living on Mongolian-owned soil they are under Chinese jurisdiction, and where they settle become Chinese territory

The migration is accompanied by many tragedies. Once the railways and the free travel are left behind the old begin to perish from the hardships of the journey, the trails of the newcomers being marked by thousands of graves of those who have given up.

Many of the migrants find the burden of caring for their children, especially for the babes in arms, too much. Babes are deserted and left behind in the larger towns. One fabourite way of disposing of

at

Fire countries, Japan, Australia, China as a whole, the Philippines and India, accounted for 68.6 per cent. or one per cent. more than last year of our tatal exports to the Far Eastern countries These five countries, also supplied 65.8 per cent of the total Oriental products imported, the remainder being furnished by New Zealand and the rubber, tes, spice, coffee and tin- producing countries

China's Big Increase, With the exception of China, Japan and the Philippines there as a reduction all along the line in the import trade. China show-

It was to me that Captain Leslie Eemilton said:-

"This is a grim ordeal. It is terrible, terrible.

I feel like someone starting far the unknown. It is grim, this waiting time."

Colonel Minchin remained per Captain Hamilton fectly calm.

and the Princess showed signs of agitation.

Several times the Archbishop of Cardiff, who had blessed the machine, made to move off in the direction of his waiting car, but each time he was recalled by the Princess, who seized his hand and kissed his episcopat ring repent- edly.

Once or twice she held his ca Bock as if seeking consolation.

"From The Other Side."... ton of the successful flights of other When I spoke to Captain Hamil airmen, he smiled at me and repli ed, "Yes: but they came from the other eide." "

the largest increase in sales to the United States while the rubber-

henriest losses. Since each Far producing countries incurred the Eastern country, however, except Australia, New Zealand, Siam and Indo-China, sold the United States more than it brought, the combined net balance in their favour aggre- gated 8705,537.000. This was, how-by the fliers who crossed the Atlan

I spoke of the distinction earned ever, 8231,830,000 less than in 1826.tic from East to West for the first

Position Of Japan.

time.

.

In 1926-27 total exports from the United States to China W13 $125,052,000,

compared with

but" Colonel. Minchin was terae.

I asked the Princess for a last message to the women of England before she set out. She said

"Tell them I am proud of the bonour, and I pray that it will be an Englishwoman who will be irst to cross the Atlantic frem this side. I am confident, and I im unafraid.

a baby so that it cannot be over-Oriental countries in connection success," he said,

Japan's position among the "It will be wonderful if it is & loaked is to wrap it in many folds with American commerce remained of newspapers or rags and drop it on the station platform as the train bought nearly twice as many auto- unchanged. During 1927, Japan

I would not start," he said; pulls out.

Not Political,

mcblies and trucks na during the "if I did not think it would be a Commenting on this extraordinary raw cotton; 23 per cent. more

previous year; 43 per cent. more, success." migration of Chinese to the north, gasoline; and increased the value beyond the Great Wall, to the of iron and steel products 21 per sparsely settled lands along the cent. "These advances also exceed- Mongolian and Manchurian marshes ed maller reductions in other im the Manchester Guardian says it portant staples and tended to raise would be easy, though wrong, to the total exports of the United assume that this migration has a States to Japan from $284,1DL,COO political complexion and illustrates to $267,401,000, an advance of a Chinese peasant preference for $13,300,000, or 5.2 per cent. the rule of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, now that "north" and "south" have become with us synonyms for Chang Tso Lin and the skewbald $18,529,000 or 3 per cent over the body of the Nationalists. The bulk 19 fiscal period. Gains were of the migration, however, is from noted not only in Hong Kong due one part of Chang Tso Lin's domin to settlement of the blockade din jons to another, from Shantung and culties Inst October, but in China Chilli to the ends of the branch Prefer and in Kwangtung as well lines of the Manchurian railways

Trade with the Philippines held and beyond. It would be as mistaken 70 per cent more automotive pro- its own well. The Islands bought to attribute this migration to a poli- tical preference as to assume that ducts, which, added to general in- the other migration, over the cres in a number of the import Manchurian frontier into Russian ant commodities, advanced the to- Siberia, shows a Chinese preference Philippines by 4 per cent. to tal United States exports to the for Russian Communism as against 8e0,821,000. Imports also showed Manchurian Individualism. Every

increase of 1.5 per cent. sehr there is a huge migration of Chinese peasants into Siberia, but

Manila Times. its character is not altogether un. like that of the Irish hay-makers

रारा

"I have confidence in the pilot and in the machine." "When do you expect to reach "I cannot ear," she said Canada 727 I asked her.

is a matter for Colonel Minchin and Captain Hamilton.

"That

the St. Raphael was never outside For three days before the flight its shed.

No Preliminary Test. There was no preliminary test fight immediately before the start of the great adventure.

411

why he was not going up for a pre I inquired of Colonel Minchin liminary testing light. He simply shrugged his shoulders, and repl ed," The machine is in perfect con- dition."

Actually the monoplane lay in a shed on the aerodrome ground until an hour and a half before the big fight began.

While we were talking mechanics

Its golden

above our

who used at the appropriate season There is not enough land to go to flood the English countryside. round, and the result is an annual These Chinese immigrants settle migration into districts where there for the Bummer in the towns is an eager demand for agricultural along the Siberian railway and labour. A large proportion of these were busy starting up the engine of supply the townspeople with migrents than of those into Siberia the big monoplane. fresh vegetables, cultivating allot settle down, and it has for some wings stretched out ments in a far more efficient manner time been the policy of the Chinese beads, its long white body facing than Russians can ever bring them to courage this settlement, not the west. nelves to use. When the snow only to relieve distress within the comes down in the autumn they te- Great Wall, but to strengthen the up with her 750 gallons of petrol The St. Raphael was fully loaded turn with their earnings, and it is Chinese hold on the country beyond When the engine was started every- anid that the Manchurian officials it. The migrants themselves, how thing seemed in perfect condition. make handsome income out of ever, are quite without conscious swelling for their private benefit political intention. Indeed, more lons is more than enough for our "Beven hundred and fifty gal-

the official fees for stamping papers remarkable than the migration is the task," said Colonel Minchin," and

the country. Not even the combined

we have enough food supplies for the journey and emergency rations in case we have some unexpected adventure."

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of egress and entry at the frontier. persistence in their homes of those A fair number of them every year who do not magrate. It would seem go farthest west, even as far as that after sixteen years of civil war Moscow, where they establish the the Chinese have become as in selves and settle down in laundry different to it as the dwellers on the and similar business.

slopes of a volcano become to the There was some talk of an escort- The whole affair is quite without smoky threat above their heads. ing plane leading the Byers out to

Realising that anything might Over towards the weat she disap political significance, and neither This is due probably to the size of Was the Atlantic. the doctrine of Lenin nor the per-

happen on the downs, I followed peared to reappear a minute. later, This idea was abandoned at the in a car. At first it was easy to heading back towards the aero- sonality of Chang Tao Lin has any efforts of bandit warlords and last moment, and when the 52. keep up with the big plane, and drome." thing to do with it. These Chinese squabbling Nationalists can disturb Raphael left she left alone.. it seemed to me that she would peasants migrate with the sole it all at once, and the moment the The Princess crept into the in-never rise. "For a mile, we went on object of earning a living. The tide of war in any place leaves him terior of the machine. Manchurian migration is of similar high and dry the Chimese peasant Mirchin and Captain Hamilton road.

in company. towards the sunken character, and it has steadily in is at work again scratching the climbed into the cockpit. The en- Then, when it seemed certain that ercased with the development of ground round the graves of his gine was raced, and then slowly the the monoplane would erask into the the Manchurian railways. Shantung ancestors and hoped to get his har St. Raphael crept away into the road the lifted gracefully-but ever and Chihli are overpopulated vest in before the turmoil comes his mist

so slowly it seemed just in time " (Continued on next Column.)

way again.

(Continued on nezt Oolumn.) to clear the road.

Colonel

At first we thought that some- thing had gone wrong but later wo realised that it was merely a last farewell the aviators were taking of their friends on the ground. appeared completely from our As 7.32 am, the St. Raphael dia.. vision, swallowed up in the mists to the west of Upavon.