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MEEDEN, November. the left of the target selected and The Mukden arsenal is one of sent up a cloud of smoke and dirt the most famous but not the most that seeined to cover Acres, The popular institution in Manchuria, target still-stood, and continued to- writes Mr. Rodney Gilbert in the stand throughout the rest of the North China Daily News. The performance, the shells always fall- public sentiment is that into iting to the left despite the most have gone a good share of the careful sighting. silver dollars that were bought

A Formidable ERect. with the beans that were bought with feng-piao "to all Mar- After the gunners who were demon- churia's

This one

hears strating the big mortar had miss everywhere and it is now echoeded the target a sufficient number in official circles, so that, as the of times, it was decided to try the writer has already said, there is effect of three phosphorus shells. much talk of turning it into a but which contain three pounds of ton plant, or something of the potential fame.

with a small .Sort. It still smokes away, how charge of TNT. in the centre ever, though at much lower presto scattor it. There was nothing sure than usual, na'does its equal- | inflammable within some hundreds ly famous auxiliary, the trench of yards of the target but stubble mortar arsenal. It is in the pro-se it was thought quite a safe ex duct of this plant that one must periment. The effect was spectacu Inevitably be interested when one lar, for even in broad daylight, Rees to halben so much talked was a splendid sheet of fame and goes to Mukden, for no, munition and at the distances of a mile, there a great loud of white smoke. The three shells-were fired in rapid SUC cession and when the smoke had cleared it was seen that the stub ble was on fire and that the wind was carrying a formidable line of fire towards a grove of trees. A motor car was loaded with soldiers armed with shovels and broots and rushed off to beat out the fire which they succeeded in doing One's imagination needs stimulua to picture the effect of

nhout in China as the trench mor- tar.

Those familiar with Chinese remember military affairs will that it was the niuch advertised eneral Sutton, who introduced this weapon to Chang Tso Lin, taught the Chinese how to make it on a modified Stokes pattern and persuaded the Fengtien leaders to build an arsenal for its manufar ture. At Shanhaikuan in 1994, when "Wa Pei Fa was trying to invade Manchuria it

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· SALT REVENUE IN CHINA.

THE PRESENT POSITION.

STATEMENT BY MR F. HUSSEY-FREKE

REORGANISATION LOANS DE PENDENT UPON MINISTER OF FINANCE,

writing

Mr. F. Hussey-Freke, from Peking to the Daily Press, en November 28tb. states

It is true that I have accepted the position of Association Chief Ia spertar of the Salt Administration under the National Government and that the functions of the In- spectorate Service under the tem Ferary arrangement which has been agreed upon will differ considerably from those provided for by the Reorganisation Loan of 1913.

arrangements for the custody of the The principal difference lies in the Salt Revenue.

Under the Reorganisation Loan, agreement the District Inspectors were intended to collect the revenue. and lodge it in foreign banks where i remained until the loans for which the Chief Inspectors were responsible under that agreement had been fully met. It must how been possible to carry out this pro- ever be remembered that it has not

very partial

trench mortars that made most of three such shells in a congested the stupendous din in the hills and Chinese city on a windy day, nor aparied the way for several rather the effect that such a shower of spectacular advances by the Feng-burning phosphorus would have tien troops. At Nankow their Chinese troops.

upon night and day discharges kept

After the big gun practice was Peking on the qui vive for weeks over the little mortar was worked coilreted by the District Inspectors. in the summer of 1926, and inst by the arsenal police, also very keen year, at the siege of Chochow, they show off, and to some kept the windows rattling in Peking, 40 miles away, for weeks

on end.

A Firing Test, Now the

writer

hastrotted around after Chinese armies for years and has never seen a trench mortar in action and, since he has several times been on the side of the lines where the damage was

being done, he felt that a visit to Mukden would be incomplete un less he could see one of the things and learn how it workede This idea was voiced to Baron C. Taube, the Swedish artillery expert, who

better

effect; for while they too failed to hit the target, their shots were very closely placed about it. A half dozen shells they fired so rapidly that the explosions in the distance came back as one continuous roar and it was impossible to count them. This ended the performance and we strolled away with our heads humming while the gun crews packed up their guns,

The Inevitabis Countryman

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cedure except in Д degree for many years, while within recent months the Inspectorate his been powerless to secure any part of the salt revenue whatever.

Under the new temporary arrange- ment all salt revenue, as soon as

account of the Minister of Finance is be credited lacally to the

The Minister of Finance has under in the collecting (Chinese) banks. taken to transfer, from the first. collections paid into his account a certain quota of revenue to the every month in each District.

account of the. District Inspectors $10,000,000 annually-this being ap- suficient to make up a total of proximately the sum required to

retain uninterrupted control over any part of the salt revenue, but will depend upon the Minister to meet the loans under its charge. of Finance for the funds required

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mees the service of those loans for which the Chief Inspectors have in the past borne responsibility. The+ The only thing worth further Chief Inspectors will continue to mention is that a touch a realism is serve these loans with the above- often given these tests by the per-mentioned $10,000,000, which will be 15 an adviser attached to thesistence with which the local rus-lodged in the foreign banks by the trench mortar arsenal and he was ties get on to the field and contrive District Inspectors as and when at once sympathetic and willing to. tu End business within the vicinity it is received from the. Minister of be helpful. It happened that a few days later there was to be ations is completely surrounded by

of the targets. The field of opera- Finance every month.

The Inspectorate, therefore, under firing test of three-inch and six-barbed wire entanglements and red the new temporary arrangement will inch mortars for the benefit of a number of officers and men who fags are put up everywhere long tot wanted instruction in the use of before the weapons that had been issued in them but which they had no op portunity of "ring. The writer was invited to attend these tests and learn how the guns were used. Baron Taube motored the writer through the walled city and some miles through flat country to the north, picked up an orderly at the arsenal and went on another mile or more to the testing ground. Here there was a high wooden ob servation stand and across a mile of flat country three black spots which were pointed out as the tar gets. Two companies of soldiers, artillerymen, were drawn up in a V, with the observer,

The officer in command made a great business of sighting, stepped back, and ordered the show to be gin. There was a sizzling sound for a second and then a very rea- pectable roar and the projectile ailed slowly heavenward like u rocket, quite visible up to its zenith, and after an appreciable time, burst a good fifty yards, to

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firing begins TO give warning, but the country folk, in some other errand, persist in get search of fragments of metal, or on ting over or through the barbed wire and presenting themselves in front of the targe: just about the tine a shell goes down the barrel ot the gun.

I am aware that this arrangement is meeting with criticism, as to which I offer the following com- ments. I have already pointed out that matters had reached, a.stage The whole show that we had seen where the Inspectorate was power- less to obtain custody of any part was in what were distinctly amateur

of the Sal Revenue-this provision hands, so there was no real test made of accuracy, The officer in of the Reorganisation Loan Agree- charge of the 6-inch mortar ob- ment was completely inoperative: viously failed throughout his per-At the same time no attempt was formance to take into account a being, or had ever been, made by wind that blew in fitful gusts the parties to the Loan Agreement across his line of fire. The arkenal policemen had had no particular training except as observers on many occasions. That the mortars are very fine weapons, and now very mobile weapons, and that the munitions were excellent was amply demonstrated however. There was never a misfire in the gun nor a dud at the other end. The arsenal is, evidently one big institution in China that is efficiently run.

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the Chinese Government and the Group Banks-either to revise the Agreement or to render its pro- visions workable by the Inspec- torate. As a consequence, I was faced, with two alternatives (1) to attempt to carry on a system which afforded ao tunds either to moet the bondholders' claims or, even to maintain the Service in existence, manifestly an impossible task, or (2) to endeavour to reach a tem- porary solution which, while accept- able to the Chinese Government, held put some possibility of the Inspectorate being enabled. to secure funds with which to meet its

Remarkable allegations were made loan responsibilities. In the inuf Stratford Police Court, London, terests of the Chinese Government by a wife who stated that she had whose employee I am, and of the received a sum of money from her bondholders I have chosen the latter husband as wages, when Mrs. course and take full responsibility Timbrell was granted a separation for having done so. believe in order and 259. a week maintenance the circumstances it is the best ar against her husband, Thomas Tim- rangement which can at present be brell, caffeehouse keeper, of High- made.

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Lords Justices Greer and "Russell, in the Court of Appeal, dismissed the appeal by Sir William Mills, inventor of the Mills bomb, of which 5 millions were made in the war, against a decision of Mr. Justice Rowlett afhoping a bur- My critics have also referred to Mrs. Timbrell said that her hus charge of £5,000 on him for income Surplus."

loana secured upon the Salt bend took Miss Beatrice Chapman. tax in respect of £27,750 which he

This term is always their youngest. aon's sister-in-law, was awarded in 1921 for his inven- been applied to salt funds which re- to the house. He said that he had tion,

mained at the disposal of the sold the business to Miss Chapman Sir William Mills's contention Minister of Finance after the loan for £230, and she had paid £50 was that the payments were of a payments for which the Inspectorate down. capital nature and not, as had Service was responsible had been Timbrell was to manage the busi- been held, in the nature of annual met.. It is generally known that ness, and his wife could have a gains or profits chargeable under previous Chinese Governments have room in the house, but no food and Schedule D.

raised loans I believe a very large no money. Timbrell since then had The Master of the Rolls, giving number-from both Chinese and given her 5s, which was due to her judgment, said that some human foreign sources on this "Surplus," wages. She had eaten no sympathy might be extended to. Bir but the Inspectorate has never been food in the house since September William Mills, because, though he connected in any way with auch 27th. received the award in 1921, it was loans, nor even porscases any re- not until 1920 that he was called cord of their flotation or existence. on to pay £8,000 in income tax, I personally know nothing about and he might then have made them beyond what I have read in the definite and unrecoverable disposi-Press, Buch loans have been served tion of a sum which reached him entirely by the Minister of Finance- five years before. But that did not presumably from "surplus above affect the question of law.

mentioned but, if so, certainly with- His Lordship said he found it out the Inspectorate incurring any impossible, having regard to the responsibility. Under the new tem terms of the award, to find that porary arrangement all salt revenue the payments were in respect of a not required for the loans served by capital eum. It appeared to him the Inspectorate remains in the ac that the award was made in respect count of the Minister of Finance.

for

My acceptance of appointment under temporary Service, regula- tions does not, of course, preclude formal negotiations on the subject of the Reorganization Loan Agree ment between the parties to that Agreement, the Chinese Government and the Group Banks, if such are That is not considered desirable.

my concern. I cannot prophesy re- garding the future but until the

of profits and gains, and ought to The parties, therefore, who are in Inspectorato is in a position to be included in Sir William's interested in the surplus"-secured carry out the provisions of the Be come for income tax purposes. loans appear to be in the same organisation Loan Agreement or the Therefore the appeal failed, and position as before, fc., dependent for Agreement formally revised I can must be dismissed with past their claims on funds with which only, assure all parties at I shall Lords Justices freer--and Russell the Inspectorate has-no-concern.. do my stupa to make the present

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