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THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW CHINA.

DISILLUSIONMENT AND THE PEOPLE'S DISTRESS.

THE OLD WARFARE AS EVER.

By MARGARET H. BROWN.j

The First Disillusion.

Illegal Taxes.

HONAN Back in China New

Now the station-Can I believe Peking though changed in name China-Transformed China-Unified

my eyes The same old mols of to. Peping seemed from the station |Chinn-China with her revolution dirty coolles still rowing over their to be much the same old place: well behind China entering upon change the sante unkempt-look There were the same dirty, shout the period of reconstruction-thus soldiers still insolently searching coolies-the same terrible hold- in the luggage of their fellow up for money to take your baggage declare

Nationalist ardent my

countrymen the same uid untidi- from the one station to the other friends. They assure me that the ess everywhere. And then the the same illegal customs to be changes are so great 1 shall have weatherbeaten and filthy-it gone through with notwithstand- Commercial treatica.. The ing our Rew certainly looks unchanged. dificulty in recognising the old ret class carriage 13 so terrible China has been granted tariff auto China I had known for so many that in any other country it woudnomy but there is no evidence that be a' cast-off third. Can this pos- she usa attempted to fuki her sibly to the train for China's great promise of aholishing these illegal With these words ringing in my

new capital the capital which taxes. What we were forced to pay ears. I turn my back on the nettle | pnly a day or two ago I had heard seemed to be well on to fifty per ment of" Shanghai and fare forth in glowing words described as about cent of the value at that although I care to be the most beautiful city in the all the new import duties had to seek this new country.

whole world: Filthy guards occu- already been collected, ehind the towering skyscrapers, pied a number of the first class ticket-holders were the smoking factories and the "busy seats while

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on the shores of the Whangpoo. a its muddy surface grey turn-ol war ships, still float. They are the emblems of the Imperialism under whose shadow this cosmopolitan vity has sprung up and flourished

far beyond the dreams of its earliest founders. They a little visualized this great development as did the Government that gave them" a strip of muddy fats on which to live and trade if they contid! Now it is coveted by all.

Heroic Police.

The Peping Hankow Station looks just the same, as of old. Soldiers

no accommodation is provided for Thus that uncomfortable journey passengers awaiting their train.

But at least w There is no place where you may was commented: reached the capital in good time cher your hand luggage. Chang- and that is an improvement over ing China indeed, but to the writer 1027. We cropped the Yangtze on the only change noticeable was that the ferry and before we could it was decidedly shablier and cer ht a shouting, gesticuinting mobtainly more inconvenient than when

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As for the express-only one car Imperialism, etc. It s much cheap. Passing along the clean paved

Coolier streets, I specially note the smart remained from the glory of the older to get about Peping than it is

Blug Expresses, Even it looked to get about Shanghai. of the Settlement shabby, but after appearance

the train to followed us around as we walked

PRICE seemed almost about the Legation Quarter, urging police. They, carefully guide the Sanking it now heavy traffic along these wide de luxe." The trip to Peking that us to ride at the price of twenty streets whose multicudinous shops formerly took about 2 hours now cents snall money per hour. breathe the very air of prosperity. takes nearly 3. The travel, though Shanghai a coolie would get double wae fairly comfortable and that for half the time. It was only And that prosperity is in a great, show

one of the signs that husiness was upon measure dependent

these even the dining car was passable..

dend in Peping. same police. Chinese, Sikh, or

The Unusual quiet. Irishman, alike they may he count The remarkable fact about the Wherever el pon to guard with their own whole trip was the ominous quiet rumours ives the person and property of which seemed to hang over every General the dwellers within the Settlement. thing.

At the stations even the General was said to be withdraw Unflinchingly they face the pistols sound of the hawkers was stilled. ing his troops from Shantung and of the most daring of the armed Nowhere "did いき #ce 2 single Bonan because Yen Bai Shan in robbers and kidnappere. Always freight train and only once we the North and Chiang Kai Shek- in the South had turned against you may depend on them to do eighted a troop train. True there their duty even unto death. Man were troops guarding each station him and he feared to be surround. after man has fallen at his post but but not until Taianin" Shantung ed. He was therefore withdrawing others persevere until they have did we see troops in any great to the west but planned to attack rounded up the last of the bard.numbers. Here, too, we saw the Yen He Shan from the West. On They have made even the armed first signs of the Nationalist pro all sides the plans for more civil robbers to tremble and the fact of magaada. Everywhere in large let war were being discussed: Bu: 1 19 slain in one year tells its own ters were the people were urged to had set out to find the New China- heroic tale.

defeat Imperialism, to break the the Chins with her revolution over -the China entering on the stage power of the Japanese and many

of reconstruction-while bere, I find other similar solgans...

myself back once more into the old. discussion of the War Lords plans

At last the barbed wire entangle ments that mark the boundary of the settlement' loom into view. At Teinno we waited an hour and Twisted and rusted as they are,

here the Japanese soldiers were

still grim reminders of those strenu everywhere in evidence.

It was to eliminate each other. It seemed

us days back in 1997 when the the anniversary of the outbreak so discouraging, and I longed to Shanghai Defence Force troops of against the Japanese there last year have my Nationalist friends with Imperialism-saved this great city hut all seemed apparently very ine then. It was all very well for from a terrible dienster. Chinese quiet. The station was clean and them to talk of the New China back and foreigners alike may well re- well kept and everything seemed in the, shelter of the ports but let member them with gratitude. But in good order. It was not until we them come into the interior and this is surely the last of the old reached Tientsin that we saw signs set as I was seeing. the new lies before me.

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Diary of Coming Events.

To-day {July 11.)

Queen's Theatre: "The Foreign Legion."

World Theatre: "Ramona," Star Theatre: "Square Crooks." Ten Dance: H.K, Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30

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Queen's Theatre: "The Foreign Legion:"

World Theatre: "Ramona," Star Theatre: "Square Crooks." Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.

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Queen's Theatre:"The Foreign Legion.

World Theatre: Ramona."

Star Theatre: Square Crooks.”' i Tea Dance: K.K. Hotel, 4.30

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