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YANGTSZE LEVEL- FALLING.

NORTH KIANGSU

DISASTER.

HOPE OF NORMAL STATE IN FURTHER FLOODS FEARED

THREE WEEKS.

REDS: PRECAUTIONS. TIGHTENED.

Hankow, Sept. 2-Hope that within three weeks the water level of the Yangtze River of Hankow will be normal was held here to day as the floods continued to sub side, steadily. A drop of six inches in the level of the river has been recorded during the past four hours. Officials of the National Flood Relief Commission announced to day that when the river has sus sided to the 51 feet level pumping operations will begin.

The food water in the inundated business section is estimated to total 250,000,000 gallons. After pumping operations begin it is estimated that

FROM LAKES.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1931.

KAOLIANG FIELD OXFORD REVISITED CRACKMEN'S FINEST

COMEDIES.

POLICE OBSERVE BANDITS' FRONTIER LINE.

AMAZING SITUATION -AT

·HARBIN. -

Harbin, August 97. Musical comedies have been seen on the stage in which government soldiers and bandits recognias cach other and have a frontier line between then and no person would suppose that this is actually the case, but here in Harbin at the present moment the extraordinary scone may be witnessed by taking a walk out to one of the suburbs of the town.

WANDER THROUGH SHRINE OF ENGLISH HISTORY.

MANY HANDS, MUCH HARMONY

Tay o. M. GREEN IN THE NORTH.

DAILY CHINA

NEWS.

OUTFIT.

NOW IN "BLACK MUSEUM."

Beatland Yard's Black Museum"? of criminal rolice has been enriched by a set of safe breaking instru ments described at the London Ses sions as the finest the "Tard" have ever woo

To revisit Oxford after 25 years especially for one who had saver The principal instrument con been more than a visitor there besists of a large wheel with four fore, is in some sort to see is with handles. There is centre etnol can thrill with the pride that every hored in a safe. Pr a foreigner's eyes, while yet one point by which a small hole is first

must feel in this - Englishman comparable city,

Immediate repair of the deva- stated ombankments along the Grand Canal in the Shaopo and Kaoyu regions was decried a one of the most urgent food relief measures for north Kiangsu by General Chu Ching-lai, of the tional Flood Relief Commission, an interview with a representative of the North Ohing Daily Newa, General Chu expressed great con- cern over the inundated areas for fear of further overflow of the can!

So, being called to Oxford for two o this tract of low land complete

day's recently on business, and its to this tract of low land. an serial inspection of the flooded This subur is one of the many I wandered about its lovely quad- cities together with Mr Chow which is served by a bus service rangles and gardens, with the pow-handles can cut a piece from tas Heian-yes, and Col. Strobo of the from the centre of the town, and just er to appreciate them that come back of the safe five inches in Yangtze Conservancy Board They flow as far north a Paoying en beyond it are grent folds of kno- from knowledge of other famous diameter within 16 minutes. route to Nanking, Rangchow, Chaoliang, in which bandits can easily cities, I wondered what amazement po, Knoyu and made the return trip

hide themselves.

foreigners must fuel in seeing this, by way of Hsinghwh, Cheatsun and

Only once before has such an ins Luko to Shanghai

loveliest of all, which has no equal strument been found by the polios. outside England and for which This was in 1924 but the instru

A few days ago a horse strayed from the suburb and made its way

Then, as the centre point pent tratas, and gets its grip of the first

ved to the whool come inte oors

• of the safe, four steel cutters

tion. Four men working the, four

Continual Warfare?

ten days will be required to make inundated cities, according to Gene across a stream into the kaoliang nothing they had ever imaginement then captured," although

песевогу.

berc.

J

about the English would prepared them

Circular Cutters, Dynamite, Electric drille, Electric arcs, Coal gas blowpipes, Hydrogen blowpipes, Nitroglycerine,

Shaopo and Kacyl are the worst erál Chu, while the flood waters

of similar, construction," was not the business district of Bankow run miles to the east of the two field.. Its owner followed but an

nearly so elaborate or efficient dry. It is not yet possible to be cities, submerging tracts of farms reaching the bridge across the

There is no forooks, factory" Lør. gin pumping operations.

and cities. Unless a check is im stream, the soldier on guard told We ourselves take Oxford so much the manufacture of those instru mediately made of the overflowing

They are made at home Precautions against possible Com-Grand Canal waters," General Chu him he must go no farther as the for granted that its importance to menta. munist activities here have been said, "the submerged region, bo-opposite side of the bridge was as it should be, not merely as the tools, obtainable from the ironmon the nation is not realised perhaps by the safebreaker from ordinary tightened noticeably since the arri- cause of its low land, incura the

grave danger of being further hunhutzi territory, guarded by a training ground of statesmen, but gor. val last week of General Chiang stormed by the waters of Kacyu hunhutzi with riffe in hand. If any as a shrine of English history, a During the last 60 years afe Kai-shek, the Chairman of the Lake and Shaopo Lake bordering person dares to cross into that tur pledge of our national continuity breakers have used in turn

and an example of what the race can | Hacksaws, Chinese National Government at the canal."'

ritory, they will be instantly freddo when it really sets itself to pro-Steel drills, Nanking All sampans and their Conditions at Tangohow. at from the knoliang ambuscadas. duce a thing of beauty.

The soldier explained all this seri- occupants are being watched earo

General Chu said the flood situar ously and seemingly it never enters have been at work, it is amazing Where so many different hands fully. Troops, still enforcing mar- tion in Tangchow is not as serioused his head that it is the duty of that the different parts aro so por tial law, have the right of search as was reported. Several repair the government troops to clear the fectly in keeping with each other. when they deem such action to be gangs have been rushed to streng bandits out. The arrangement, is There are incongruities of course, then the weakened dykes north of quite open and similar to a frontier, like the Renaissance porch of St. the flooded areas, but in the opinion between two countries, the whole Mary's; while Exeter chapel, beauti-Oxy-acetylene plowpipe. Armed junks are guarding the of Goperal Chu, spread of the flood of the villagers now understandingful as it is, has a certain foreign river front, adding to the picture is only possible towards the cant that they must not dare to pass feeling which one perceives even be to the challenge of every new up. |

Safe-makers worked out replies near the sen coast. The waters into the bandit territory. If some queness of the scones of devastation will most probably recede by way of enterprising London or New York fore one learna that it is a copy pliance of the robber. To tho

the natural network of waterways thentzien) manager was to pay a

of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. merely merchanical attack they which lend to the, sen," he said. visit to Harbin, he could make quite

But these differences rather ac-replied by building safes of layers The damage and loss of life in the fine story of it and secure scenic centuate thau impair the harmony of hard and soft steel welded to food north of Kiangsu are at pre-effects on the spot.

of the whole; while,, at the same gether. The hard steel can be sent not yet known. General Chu

time, the old builders managed to shattered, the soft can be drilled. impart a special charm to overy The two together can be neither expects to send representatives of the commission to make a joint tour

detail. So that it really does not drilled nor shattered." with Kiangsu Provincial officials of

tiny garden quadrangle of St. matter whether you begin with the the flooded areas when refugees who

Edmund's or the sunk lawn, bright trees will be removed to dry land.

flower beds and old wall of Now are clinging to house-tops and high According to Mr. T. K. Tseng,

Colega: ke the rooms in fairy general accretary of the National

more beautiful than the one before palace each fresh revelation seems Flood Relief Commission, e sum of 8100,000 will be set aside for food

There is nothing so splendid in relict work in that region.»

either University as the interior of King's College Chapel at Came bridge, nothing lovelier than the

This, however, is not nearly as college backs on the Cam. Yet even practicable as the oxy-acetylene Cambridge men must confess that blowpipe, which must be charged at for architectural completeness Ox the burglar's expens. An acety ford is unrivalled.

What noble lens flame fod with oxygen direct streets it has, too! The High, (the gases are carried in cylinders Giles', the Broad, less famous each about four feet high) in allow. than the Figli but with a Barenged to play on the steel until it is. autumnal charm of its own that is warm. The blowpipe flame is cap- unapproachable, and, most suggable of attaining 6000 degrees tive of all, New College Lane Fahrenheit. Having warmed the seen on the edge of night with the steel the safebreaker turns on a tops of buildings faintly discarded jet of oxygen, which plays on the above its high walls.

metal simultaneously with the fame and burns it. We

General Oklang Leaver, General Chiang Kai-shek has left Hankow for Nanking where ho will attend state funeral services for the lato Tan Yen-kai, the former Pre sident, of the Excentive Yunn who died at the capital nearly a year ago. After participating in the pervanees at Nanking General Chiang Kai-shek 'will probably re- sume his inspection of the flood 'stricken districte

.recovery

Peasants Prefer to Pay

village from which all police and Slightly farther out there is n military have moved out, but they save the peasants a couple of guns and ammunition to use in case of whether the peasnote would risk a bandit attack. It is doubtful ring at a band of hunhutzi, say n couple of hundred strong, and they much prefer to pay the sum demand ed to be loft in peace. "

Where Cambridge Booras. But in one thing Cambridge has

Then there is the safe made ef

At Robbed Man's Expense. steel which must be melted cr burned away. The robbex's electric cumstances, can be worked at the are, which, in properly chosen i expense of the owner of the safe by connecting it with his mater, is the appliance for such a task.

It was by a curiously subtle. device that the safemakers counter-

Relief work is continuing un

Gen. Chiang to View Ares, abated in the Wahan, area with

All this is occurring in the local officials and representatives of

Nanking, Sept. 1.-It is learned suburbs of & large town, which ac the National Flood Relief Commis that President Chiang Kai-shek has cording to the latest consus, has a sion doing effective work. The decided to return to the Capital on population of 310,000 inhabitants, speedy fall in the level of the the 3rd instant. President Chiang Surely the authorities must take Yanglaze has heartened officials and the public. There can be no mini-will inspect the extent of the flood some kind of action to stop bandits ramming about ng pleasure within mizing of the problems which will disaster in north Kiangsu,

There have beca breaches at 27a fow miles of the town and ac rome with the autumn and the win-pinces along the embankments of tually guarding their own" ter ter but the organization to cope with the disaster has been provided the Grand Canal. Six portions on ritory.

the Kaayu-Paoying, nection; and 21 and it is functioning.

Hidden Among the drops. Foreigners and Chinese are work on the Yangohow-Knoyu section ing with complete rehabilitation as have collapsed. Through the joint

Is it to be wondered at that every their goal and on every hand there River Affairs Bureau and the Peace stabbing and hooligan nations in the efforts of repair gungs from the night there are robberies, cases of is evident a spirit of determination to achieve as speedily as possible Preservation Corna, three large very centre of the town, and that devastation openings near Shaopo have been it is far from safe to take a walk from the

blocked up. wrought by the foods,

in streets which are badly lit. Trus the advantage There the Univeted the introduction of the blow- According to Mr. Chuang Sung the municipal police have worked sity still dominates the town, which pipe. They found that by simply fu, Vice-Chairman of the Huni hard lately and there have ocen without the colleges would introducing a layer of copper he River Conservancy Board, an aren several bandits captured or killed nothing, In Oxford, the town tween layers of differently temper- of about 70 miles east of the Grand but these are but, a trife, compared threatens, if not to overwhelm, ated steel the heat is so rapidly con- Canal in north Kiangsu has become to the gangs which are hiding in the any rate to hem in and alanet ducted over the whole plate that it a sheet of water. It is stated that crops all round the town, ready to industry at Cawley has brought enough on one point for the metal stifle the University, The mator is difficult to concentrate it long the waters of the Canal, east of spring out and roh where they can.

Suel, gangs require to bn-extermin 12,000 new residents to Oxford. Far to be oxidised or burnt out. Hauchow, have also risen.

ted by the military authorities, out northwards and southwards the but as long 38, the government city is spreading; the traffic of double deck-motor-'buses, charn- HANKOW FOREIGN STAFFS. soldier recognises that there is a

frontier between him and the bandit bancs, lorries and cars is appalling; Lady Isabella Thynne attends stronghold, there is little, chance of the cross-roads at Carfax are really Trinity chapel, dressed like wa like Oxford Street in London. One angel; and between his useless raids extermination,

Two years 4x0 the local authori-understands with fresh sympathy on the Puritans, Rupert comes back. ties took energetic measures against the All Souls don who wrote.

to revel in Magdalen. You cannot the bandit gangs which were in-

get away from the atmosphere, of j Et complebat omna, forum feating the whole of Northern Man-

the Stuarts in Oxford; and though they were, in fact, a rotten lot, they churia, but at present these wander-

were the emblem of a great ideal ing robbers seem to bo, growing in

and the centre of much noble devó-! strength and daring to the great danger of the entire population,

tion and self-sacrifice. Vigorous steps must be taken to put an end to their activities, at towns-N.U. Daily News,

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Deapito conflicting, reports from the scene of the disaster, business an and appears to be the slogan of the majority of large foreign companies in the flood aren, accord. ing to a survey mande bere,

The outstanding exception is the

Copia motorum.borum, How shall wrutches live like, as

Cineti bis motoribus 7- Dominò, defende nos

Contra hos motores bos, The vibration of so many heavy for the old buildings and especially for Magdalon bridge. A by pass in being made round Oxford and one hopes it will be finished quickly. for the motor buses are utterly out of place in the High, a jarring.noto

Asiatic Petroleum Company. (North any rate driving them for from the vehicles must be really dangerounarians they would simply, have

China) Ld., employing, the largest number of women.. Two women em- ployees are being: transferred, one to Shanghai and the other probably to Kuling. A third is on holiday and two are to remain, according to Mr. N. Leslie, general manager..

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BRITISH DIPLOMAT'S

DEATH.

FOUND SHOT IN LEGATION.

in every senso

Nowadays, of course, the Royal- Instead of fighting the Parliament ists would have been much wiser,

collared their younger members and the sons of those too old to learn, and have given them scholarships at Oxford.

Which is precisely what the upper alnases of England, wise in their generation, are bow doing with the

Being older now, I paid more et- tention to the old portraits which, Tegucigalpa (Honduras), August 12-Mr. John David Candler, Wil-like old wine, are too mature among lovely, historic buildings is taste for callow youths. Two such ton, British Chargé d'Affaires hore, I saw in Christchurch hall with an was found dead in the Legation this. morning. An automatic pistol y enthusiastic ancle, who was giving

young Labourites. To have passed the most impressionable years of life to acquire, even though, unconscious ly, certain tendencies and standards

near at hand on every single picture. They were troy the surroundings from which which retain their influence to the his nephews a voluminous lecture end of one's days. You may dos

On a table in the room was a

of women in Hankow, though not For example, the B. AT staff large, is going ahead with the ex- ception of those on annual holiday. ter from home which he bad ap naturally and properly bored nl So far hs the local office has been parently heon reading. Beside it most to tears. Time alone can teach informed, there have been no were Mr. Wilton's sword, an album one the significance of these old can changes since the disaster of outtings, some photographs, hind vases and their value as a fact

The anmods true of the Standard n letter addressed to his wife in note to the history enshrined in all

Oxford's stones

Oil, whose oxecutives declare that

London only rece

in view of the fact that ships aro Mr. Wilton has recently 35. Portraits Which Are Alive,

leaving Hankow daily, no avacua tion, steps have been taken. How ever, fresh vegetables and fruit are being sent: everythering addition, certain amount of rice has been despatched

in

Texas Company officiale also sub- scribe to the anime theory and point out that wiler of staff members hro remaining in, Hankow.

beer posted to Tegucigalpa from

such influences arise; you cannot destroy or vanquish the mental bent which they develop. Nothing more important for the future of England, nor more significant of Aber instines for preserving her id

ideals and finding means of defend ing them through days of upheaval,

Rotterdam, where he had een low extraordinarily alive the than the facilities and encourage-- Acting, Consul General portrait seem in these naturalmente given to boys of the artisan Mr Wilton was born on March 1, surroundings Gladstone, Wesley close to go to the older, Univer

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III, and most of all the Stuarts Eyon Cromwell' revolutionaries Surely Charlex is still holding his could not destroy the epirik mat. John Oxford. Their modern descendants Last Court at Christchurch Inglesant lodges at Wadham and are being trained to carry it to the

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