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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30th, 1927.

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GOING HOME VIA SIBERIA.

PROSPEROUS AGRICULTURAL COUNTRY,

A MEMORABLE JOURNEY OF 17 DAYS.

I have just completed this jour ney of some 12,000 miles by rail, writes a correspondent to the Y.-C. Daily News.

Our party of four, two French, one German, and mysell-the only British subject-left Shanghai at 8 a. on October 4th, and I ar rived at Victoria punctually ab 4.30 p.m. exactly 16 days 10 hours Inter.

places I actually saw goal posts signs of progress indeed. At Kras noyarsk in Siberia I came across the only other British subject encoun- tered during the whole trip; he was a Scot who, for some unexplain- ed season,, mistook me for the station-master and enquired about getting back to Moscow. On heat ing. I was only a passenger, though a British subject, ho sheered off at once, and refusing all offers of help, he sought a friend, an engine driver who spoke a little English, and dis. appeared. The impression I got from his face and behaviour was that he is a Communist export from Glasgow, and it was strange to encourter the friendly accent in the wilds of Siberia.

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There had been some trepidation as to whether the U.S.S.R. Con- sulate in Shanghai would consent to allow me to cross Russia a tale gran to Moscow, however, secured the necessary permission in seven daya: the other countries, China, Japan, Poland, Germany and Bel gium, offered. no objection, though

Short Stay In Moscow. the Chinese appeared to think they ought to have had a visa, though it

After a

seven days' consecutive was not clear which particular pro-run, we arrived in Moscow some vince out of so many at war should seven hours late and only just in time to be whisked off in ears to grant it.

the Alexandroffskaya station for the train to the Polish frontier. That drive across Moscow was a hair-raising experience-bitterly cold in a heavily overloaded ramshackle open car, going at 45 miles an hour along paved streets full of holes. The glampre we had of Moscow was very depressing and I was much disappointed at not being able to see the two extremes-the Kremlin and Lenin's tomb-but above all the misery of Moscow was a very beautiful clear sky,

The first portion of the journey is very pleasant and easy com- fortable steamer from Shanghai to Dairen (Dalny) with a peep at Tsingtao on the way. This port of Dairen stands as a monument of Japanese efficiency and far-sighted ness, and the town itself has streets. designed and laid out on worthy of any capital in Europe: there are only about fifty foreign- ers there, and many thousands of Japanese; and the general impres sion one has is magnificence await ing occupancy. Dairen should serve its purpose for many generations to

come.

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We had arrived at Dairen at 2 p.m. on Thursday, and we went on by train the same night, still under comfortable Japanese auspices to Changchun the following afternoon: here we changed to the Chinese Eastern Railway, a Russo Chinese concern, and the best rolling stock of our train was an archaic second- class coach of Russian ancestry; but it brought us tired and foodless to Harbin by 11 the same night. Harbin will be a famous place some day; it is suffering at present from dual control and impoverished Rus siens, but as a distributing centre for Northern Manchurin it has a tremendous future. Here we stay ed two days, and left in a confort ablo C.E.R. train which brought us to the Russian frontier at Manchouli in just under 24 hours.

The trans-Siberian trains depart twice a week, and this was where we expected to meet the real test of efficiency. I had decided to travel second-class all through, and I found the compartments, two berths in cach, were entirely ade quate, the only point requiring courage to combat, for the morning sluice and shave, being the rather marky lavatories; praiseworthy efforts were made to keep these places clean, but

well, one

got accustomed to it...

An Interesting Trip.

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KULING'S ANCIENT

PAGODA.

DESTROYED BY TANG SENG CHI.

HIS ILL BEHAVED SOLDIERY.

KICKIANG, Nov. 19th. Visitors to Kuling will in future mis one of its most famous land- marks, the ancient Broken Pagoda, scene of many a jolly pienic, writes a North China Daily News correS=" pondent,

Tang Seng Chì is a member of the Buddhist Associa tion (Fo Chiao Hui) and has the necessary psychic powers to enable him to distinguish the various fac tors affecting the feng shui" of a locality.

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The pagoda stands eminence called the Hill of the Lion and, when Tang Seng Chi visited Kuling, he perceived that the Pagoda stood on the lion's head. It followed that the lion wae unable to raise his head and it was for this reason that during the past centuries the Chinese bad not been able to resist the foreigner." Tang ordered the Pagoda to be pulled down and promised to pro- vide funds for a new pagoda to be built on the lion's tail.

The work of breaking up the old pagoda has been completed. In- side were found 18,000 cash, a stone Buddha and three little gold Buddhas, all of which will be Built again into the New Pagoda. Work At Stolebe on the Polish frontier on the latter had already started came another change of trains early when he ran away from Hankow next morning, and we reached and the funds gave out. So now Warsaw that evening. A stay of the Lion will have to do without two hours brought a very welcome hay pagoda at all and it remains. bath and an excellent dinner, and to be seen how the fortunes of the we visited the grave of the un-foreigner will be affected. known soldier," dignified and im pressive, especially at night with its overburning brazier. The appar ent prosperity of Warsaw seemed to us a vivid contrast to Moscow of the night before.

German Railway Good, The next morning brought the German frontier, and our excellent German friend left us at Berlin. This portion of the journey stands out as

Vandalismi At Kuling.

There has been a good deal of indiscriminate cutting down of trees at Kuling, which the magis trale is doing his best to stop. On returning from church last Sunday the few foreigners were amazed to

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two coolies lashed to trees on either side of the road in the Gap. They had been caught cutting wood in the Estate and were sentenced type of real efficiency in

to be tied up for three days. It railway organization-great com- fort and punctuality to the minutes to be hoped that the magistrate's efforts will be successful, as it at every station. The country was would be a great pity if Kaling TO BE STAGED IN THE U.S.

dream of beauty in the autumn

were stripped off the trees (all sunshine and everyone looked pros- perous and happy. I could not planted by foreigners) which make

it so beautiful help pondering on the difference that ten years has brought about.

Queen Victoria is the central figure in a new English play, Down in Kikiang with the de-Quden, Victoria," which is to be parture of many of the troops for produced in New York in Decem Hankow conditions have improved. br. The impressing of coolies contiou-

We crossed the Belgian Frontier that night and lay some six hours in Brusseds before the final spurt to the coast. A beautiful Channeled for about a fortnight, when one crossing from Ostend and that ever. day a policeman on the China stirring sight, the white cliffs of Merchants' Bund seized a country Dover, brought to an end a very man, with the intention of hand- ing him over to work for the mili- memorable journey.

tary. The countryman explained that he was sick and could not carry, but that did not worry the

The play is by Mr. Louis N. Parker, and Miss Fay Compton will take the name part.

The Lord Chamberlain has refus ed a licence for the production of the play in England, declining to lift the official ban on subjects dealing with the reigning House.

The all-in cost from Shanghai was a trifle under £50, and the time

The action starts in Kensington saved at least 14 days by any other

There was an argu- Palace on the date of Queen Vic- route. On the Siberian train one policeman. big meal is served, good food well ment and the usual crowd collect toria's accession to the throne. It The policeman eventually is in five acts, and traverses events cooked, about 3 p.m. each day, and ed most people amplified this by pur-offered to let his captive go if he up to the Jubilee year, 1887.

The countryman ex- Miss Compton, who will be sup- The journey through Siberia and "chasing food ready cooked which paid 810.

an English company, Russia was of surprising interest. can be had at all the big stations.plained he had not even $1, let ported by Never have I seen more magnificent It is advisable to purchase some alone 810 and so the policeman will have a range of characterisa agricultural country, and the beauty fruit at Harbin, say sufficient for 7 said he would have to come along. tion from the age of 18 to the age of that portion of the journey-a days, and a thermos flask is most The country, exclaiming that he of 68.

quite might as well die now as later, whole morning--where the railway useful. Personally I was encircles the southern portion of satisfied with a light breakfast and thereupon threw himself into the Lake Baikal is beyond description, the afternoon meal, both of which river. There was a great hullaba As we got north and into Asiatic I had in the restaurant car. It is loo and the man was half-drowned out. The Russia, we found snow everywhere necessary to travel light with before they got him and it was interesting to see several suit-cases only, and most of these crowd then turned can the police sledges in use instead of the farm ought, on arriving at the Polish man and chased him away and it carts. Judging from the peasants frontier, to be registered through was heard afterwards that he had been arrested. There has been no and people we saw at the different to final destination or they become stations conditions are net unfavour liable for a 50 per cent, fine for further impressing of coolies. able and they mostly appeared excess weight in the compartment, benevolent though bovine. In two as well as the registration charge...

WAR LORD'S THREAT.

NATIONALIST LOAN NOT TO BE SUPPORTED.

SUN CHUAN FANG'S PRO. MISED VENGEANCE.

"

It is a hard thing being patriotic Chinese in these difficult daya,

While the Nationalist authorities are endeavouring. to raise a loan of $30,000,000 on a bond issue. Varsha San Chuan Fang, the Northern war-lord and former con- troller of Shanghai, through his propaganda department has issue leaflets threatening that anybody who subscribes to the loan will be arscated and punished.

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Good Riddance Of Soldiers. The foreigners are not sorry to the backs of the departing troops. These soldiers seem to be under the impression that provid- COMMITTING SUICIDE FOR ing a house is empty, they are en-

A LIVING.

STRASBOURG.

The police at Halle, in Saxony, have arrested man who has be- come known locally as the hang ing beggar."

titled to occupy it. Of course, they prefer foreign houses. They visited one house in the Concession early one morning and told the servants, as it was empty, they. proposed to billet themselves there. The servants told the soldiers that The man, whose name is Muller, the house was occupied by for used to wait in the woods, near eigners but the soldiers. pretended Hale, and as he saw not to believe it and they would people approaching who looked as not leave, until their officers had if they were comfortably off, he been taken up by the boy to the would hang himself with great pre-small daughter's bedroom and cautions from the branch of a tree: shown the child asleep in bed. Usually the persons would rush to cut him down, and then Muller. slowly coming to himself, would explain that he was so poor and miserable that he had decided to put an end to himself.

The other day he had done the This threat will be carried into trick four times when a policeman effect when he comes back to came along and, after watching Kinagau and Cheriang," the Mär- Muller, at his work, arrested him. bal prophetically announces, put He found three new

ropes in ting much faith in his new driva Muller's pocket, and the man com- on Nacking which hitherto has released that he had made quite a Suicide" sulted in his retreat and the good living out of his Nationalist capture of Pengpu, his act for several months. former base in Anhwei

Marshal Sun's proclamation dis have heard that the Reds' army tributed widely but surreptitions have issued 2 per cent National ly in Shanghai recently, reads: Bonds for $20 millions and now "Since the Red' army taking, again heard that they have utilized over the control of Kiangsu and 2 per cent surtax for a loan of

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Other characters in Queen Victoria" are the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales (Edward VII.), Lord Melbourne, Disraeli, Baron von "Stockmar, Baroness Lehzan, the Duchess of Kent, and Princess Alioc,

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"Anyone who subscribes to this loan is illegal and I hope you people will refuse same. Anyone subscribing to such loan found when I come back to Kiangsu and Chekiang will be one by one arrest- ed and punished Sun Chuan Fang Commander-in-Chief, Allied Armico."-Shanghai Times.

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