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TRANSPORT ON THE UPPER YANGTSZE.
ILLEGAL TAXES RUINING TRADE.
AUTOCRATIC RIVER PILOT DISAPPEARS.
It is becoming somewhat axioma tie that, given reasonably good transport facilities and a reason ably unimpered financial movement of goods, China's woes would be to a large extent mitigated and the exchange question brought within stno bounds.
Thus a correspondent in the though these officers feel fairly com North China Daily News:-The petent to deal with an ordinary case margin betwban living and actual of piracy whilst running, they are starvation in most parts of China naturally limited, in their ability is so narrow that anything that to cope with a determined attack impedes the transport and trade from shore when anchored at night- of the country causes the death of time. Again, should the vessel un- thousands of her people and acute fortunately meet with an accident distress to hundreds of thousands whilst running, as in the recent case of the B. & S. str. Wanliu, she is helplessly open to attack at any time by bandits. The notion of the N.K.K. steamer in putting the nucleus of a Japanese guard aboard the Wanliu until such time as H.M.S. Cockchafer could reach her was, in effect, a mark of courteous That the imposition of taxes by rebuke to the British Naval Author- military and other offshoot parasitieities. What the travelling Chinese the "peaceful con- bureaux on imports and exports is thinks of
aditions" is shown in the distinct gradually bringing trade to standstill is probably more appar-falling off in the passenger receipts ent on the Upper Yangtsze than when a guard is not provided. elsewhere. A bill of lading from Chungking requires 14 separate and distinct chops" before the goods
can move.
to
End of Autocratic Plot,
Since the breaking of the Pilots strike (largely by the successful efforts of Capt. Hughes of the Kia General Liu Hsiang has had Wo) the "lordly and autocratie" notification from Nanking
pilot has ceased to be. Insofar as abolish likin, etc, but his reply, was Captain Hughes steamer is con- something in the nature of "try earned the pilots have reverted to and stop it." Lin Hsiang is a their true status-that is of men powerful factor in Szechuen. His who are on board simply to assist military strength makes him fairly the shipmaster by means of their weüte against any undue pressure local knowledge. They have no re- from Nanking. Nevertheless, the tinue of quartermasters and ser taxes stand in danger (?) of ceasing | vants with the attendant "pidgin " to operate by reason of there being "nothing to tax and the military will have to exercise their fertile im CHINA BIOCHEMICAL CO. aginations to increase the revenue
by other means.
Merchants in Middle West and
In a manifesto to the local ver- West Szechuen are routing their bacular Press the Hupeh pilots mengre shipments rid Yunnanfa stated that they have always and thence to Haiphong by rail. received generous treatment from Merchants in Middle East and the foreign shipowners and that
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passengers and cargo and with the passing of these a great deal of the frictional element that formerly interfered with shipboard efficiency
has been removed.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, COMMENCING AT 2.30 PM.
AT THIN SALES ROOM, 4, DUDDELL STASI",
A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising
Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinets, Chesterfield Couches and Armchairs, Deaks, Gramaphones and Records, Pictures, Ornaments, Curios, Blectric Table Ceiling Fans and Table Fans, Carpets, Rugs, Pianos, Wardrobe
Trunks, etc, etc.
Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards, with Bevelled Mirrors, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests, Dinner" Crockery, Glass Ware, Kitchen Uten- cila, Stoves, Booking Machine, Show- ing Machines, etc., etc.
Teak, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Wardrobes with Bevelled Mirrors, Dressing Tables, Chest of Drawers, Enamel Bath, Book Cases, Camera8, etc., etc.
and
A QUANTITY OF BLACK- WOOD "FURNITURE
Including:
Joss Tables, Curio Cabinets, Tea Poya, Jardinieres, Chaira, Opium Stools, Deaks, etc., etc.
ON VIEW From THURSDAY, the
7TH AUGUE, 1980.
East. Szechuen are routing their during the strike they were the in- TERMS-CASH ON DELIVERY. shipments vid Kueifu, all
en-nocent victims of their chairman's deavouring to avoid the military high-handedness. This, of course, taxes at Chungking and Wanhsien. is so much face pidgin." Never Presently, perhaps, the local gentry theless, the one outstanding benefit of bandits will become fully alive to of the strine is the realization of the possibilities contained in this the pilots themselves that they are method of routing and protection taxes will be imposed. Perhaps too, the genuine military will ap- point various caravan route com- missioners to collect tolls.
not indispensable.
Indiscriminate Issue of Licencer,
On the other
On the face of things it seems that the river inspection people in the past have beon much too indis- River Tonnage Reduced.
criminate in their issuing of Taxes, fines and other impositions licences to prospective pilots. There are too many men with a less than have considerably reduced, the ton-mediocre knowledge of the river nage available along the waterway, holding licences. bat foreign shipping companies are hand, there are a few very good maintaining an adequate transport pilots who, with an intelligent grasp of the handling of a stearber service for the amount of goods in a swift waterway and a good and passengers moving. Profitable knowledge of the river's slacks and freights in any quantity are out of backwaters, are worth their wages to the shipowner on the saving in the question and shipowners are fuel consumption alone at least lucky if they can make unit run- during the high-water senson
fairly Contrabrand, being a ning costs.
steady source of revenue, to the The question of guards on British Szechuen, military, constitutes an Some averagely active traffic. Opium is steamers is n vexed oad.
To times a guard is provided some not quite so fashionable amongst
the get-rich-quick" traders. times one is not. In the absence them morphia is the dernier eri in of any information to the contrary, contrabrand. There are at least it would appear that the provision three places in and around Chung- of a guard depends solely on the king where the drug is manufactur port gunboat commander's guessed in a crude form. Volume for on prevailing conditions. If this be volume it is more valuable than So it warrants inquiry.
opium and is more easily hidden.
To the casual observer, making With the introduction of this traffic possibly a trip or two to Chungking and the increased endeavour of the under favourable circumstances, the parasitic bureaux to tax and ened for a guard is not acutely ap- squeeze its movement, the corrup parent. Gunboat commanders réretien, bribery, etc., has become dis ly have the facilities to be anything guistingly, intensified. The utmost but casual observera. Conditions a conscientious ahipmaster can do. change and fuctuate so rapidly with regard to contrabrand and along the Yangtse valley that it is pidgin cargo is to keep it within wholly impossible for a two-year reasonable bounds. To stop it alto service man (whose station work gether is out of the question-the during the two years is distributed traffic being so intimately bound up generally between Upper, Middle with the corrupt practices of the and Lower Yangisze) to say that numerous official and semi-official ench and such a thing will or will bureaux.
not occur. Men with years of hard Here as elsewhore throughout-the- experience of the Upper Yangtaze length and breadth of China the state, that a guard is necessary.anarling and bickering, the selling They know that possibilities are and re-selling of each other..goes probabilities on the Upper, Yangon. The corrupt practices of
taze.
Protection for Steamers.
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On the steamers of the Indo-paralysed state out of which it will China S.N. Co., the captain and take her decades to recover. What officers go armed at all times. They the outcome will be no-one knows. are efficiently trained revolver shots No-one has even started to wonder. and have no illusions with regard Progress and development must to peaceful conditions. Those who come and the enlightened, average deplore this aggressive attitude Chinese official knows it. But dis- should bear in mind that the interested work in the cause of that aggression is directed against progress and development is foreign those individuals who respect to him Material and primarily, neither Chinese nor foreign life imvaiute gingerskisuologan SIX MONTHS.-.- or property. And in passing mud by the amuletjan..od... zn. -it may be said that this same obstructionist policy be skilfully aggressive attitude has done much manages to force progress and to subdue the hooligan element at development to subserve his own the terminal parts. Nevertheless, ambitions."
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