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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1932.

MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

REHABILITATION

OF CHAPEI

PROPOSED ISSUE

of

the

OF $6,000,000

MUNICIPAL BONDS

NANKING

WATERWORKS

LOAN NECESSARY FOR COMPLETION OF SCHEME

Nanking. Oct. 98.-A contract was signed yesterday between, the Shanghai, Oct. 20-Mr. J. K. Municipal Bureau of Finance of Choy, Commissioner of Finance Nanking and a banking syndicate City Government of headed by the Bank of China for Greater Shanghai, officially a loan of $300,000 for the complo: nounced to-day that the proposed tion of the Nanking Waterworks. issue of $6,000,000 municipal bonds. It is learnt that the loan will redeemable within a period of 20 bear interest at 5 per mills, per years will bear interest at 7 per mensem, to be redeemable iju seven

monthly instalments. rent. per annum.

Mr. Choy said that he will have the whole bond issue underwritten nt a net price of 80, and the un- derwriters will offer the bonds to, the public at a reasonable price, probably around 33.

The work of installation has been going on for some time, but due to financial difficulties of the Muni. cipal Authorities, progress has been retarded hitherto,-Kuo Min.

The money realized will be used, NEW ARSENAL AT

principally for the rehabilitation of Chapei,

The name of the underwriters

TUNGCHOW

will be announced after formal ap-PLANS BEING DRAFTED BY

GERMAN EXPERTS

proval of the issue of the bonds by tho National Govtrament.-Kuo Min.

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SUPPRESSION OF BANDITS

NEW MEASURES PROPOSED IN THE NORTH

Hankow, Oct. 31.-New measures concerning the bandit suppression campaign in northern Hupeh hav- ing been decided upon, General Ho Chang Chun, Director of the fan- kow Pacification Headquarters and

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·GOODS IN HAINAN

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(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Kachek, Nov 1-This is rics har-

concurrently Field-Commander of vesting season. Inspite of the late the Left Wing Bandit-suppression sowing due to dry weather the crop forces, is leaving immediately for is better than for several seasons. Laohokow to personally supervise The outting was just ready to begin the operations. He is accompanied when the rains came, from October by General Chu Huai Pin, Previn 17th to 22nd, with the mercury at cial Commissioner of Civil Affairs, the morning of the 21st. most General Hsu Yuan Chuan, De- unusual for this time of year. For paty commander of the Left Wing tunately not enough rain fell to Bandit-suppression forces, left here soak the heads of grain, and the for his headquarters at Yokow, damage was almost negligible.

Autumn Orops.

central Hupth, yesterday. Ha in-

the

symbol. And the market place is ma-sat, inexplicable in·ány way except as a mispronounciation of the English word,

The Double Tenth.

School are carrying on vigorous ly. All preparations for a lantern parade on October 10th were well in hand, when the official notico came the evening of the 8th saying that the government would not permit parades. Any how, the boys had had two days of vacation to prepare the lanterns, so they were happy. The day was observed vory quietly, but the extra vigilance of scliders on guard and patrol was noticeable. about 300 schools There are

open in Kheng-dong county, in which Kachek is located. That in- eludes even tiny village schools of ten or a lezen pupils. When a meeting was held recently to elect a delegate to the Educational Confer

ence to be held in Canton 870.00 was estimated as the necessary expense and each school was assessed fifty cents.

Queer Taxes.

Local village, schools are support- Led in part from some curious taxes. tends to inspect the various districts

A stroll through the market re In the district of Loh-hee, just in central Hupeh and hasten the

| contly brought sharply to mind the south of this one, there are many organization of militia corpe: Gen-change of seasons. Vegetables on tile kilas and each one pays a tax eral Hsu's units have taken over sule included Chinese cabbage, both of 31.00 per year towards maintan- the garrison posle at Shasi and fresh and pickled, turnips and egg-ance of schools. In districts where Shayang recently vacated by the Szechuan troopa under General Lit plant, all of which are missing dur there are many low-lying rice fields

Hsiang.

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a tax of $2.00 per year is levied on the duck herders who drive their

ing the hot summer montha Beas Peiping, Oct. 2.-The construc-

sprouts of course we have always tion of an arsenal at Tung-

The remnant "Reds" under Isu! about 40 miles

east Hsiang Chien have filed to the with us. This is the time to buy Blocks from field to field after the! of Peiping,

decided upon neighbourhood of Tenghsien and, baby ducks to take home and raise

the Honan-Hupch ready for the New Your feasting. Vangneng to Khengton. Ferry taxes harvest, following the reapers from by the Peiping Branch of the Chochuan, on

border, and are attempting to enter Military Affairs Commission at a southern Shonsi by way of Chi- They sell for one hundred and ten and taxes levied on standing grain chinkwan, on the Honan-Eupeh coppers a pair, or about 45 cta. Shensi border.-Kuo Mh.

Wee wee things they are, covered with yellow and black down, and with most voracious and insatiable appetites for small frogs, crickets, and bugs in general. School boys who come from the market as day pupils are busy at recess ralching insects and stringing them on stalks of grass, to take home to iced their ducklings.

The Piping Branch also appro- priated a sum of $150,000 for the construction of an aviation: field at Tsinghua Yuan, which is near the Tsinghua University west of the city.-Kuo Min.

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CHIANG. GOING TO KIANGSI

Nanchang, Oct. 31.-It is announc ed that General Chiang Kai Shek, President of the Military Affairs Commission, will proceed here from Hankow after his inspection tour of Hunan to take an active part in directing the operations against the "Red" bandits in Kiangsi.

CONSTRUCTION OF

ARTERIAL ROADS

Green Oranges.

In the region around Kachek a variety of greep orange is found, Hankow, Oct. 28.-The Highway Conference convened by the Com- about the size of a medium Cali- mander-in-Chief's Headquarters for fornia arange. Some are decidedly the Honan-Hupeh-Anhwei Bandit bitter, but others are delicious, of suppression Forces will open, here

a grapefruit tartiness and at their on Tuesday, November 1, it is an nounced. Representatives of the beat when eaten as grapefruit is Honau, Hupeh, Anhwei and Kiang eaten. They sell for eight coppers si Provincial Governments will

ench in the open market, five or six participate. Commissioner of Reconstruction for from the men who raise them. (A Mr. Chang Ching Yu, Provincial coppers each if bought in quantity Honan, has already arrived for the

meeting. Representatives from dollar now is changing for two Kiangsi and Anhwei are reported hundred and thirty coppors). Frosh cocoanuts are selling at sixty for a

to be on the way.

The conference is being called for the purpose of framing plans for dollar. the completion of various arterial roads in the four provinces whore "Red" banditry has been most prevalent-Kus Min.

FOR COMPLETION

OF RAILWAYS

LOANS FROM BOXER FUNDS

TO BE SOUGHT

Nanking, Oct. 28,The Board of Trustees of the British Boxer In- demnity Refund will hold its 12th regular meeting at Shanghai to torrow, Saturday, it was appoune- ed to-day.

Russian Flocs Goods.

Visits to the shops sometimes re- veal interesting things Your cor- respondent desired to puerhase a certain kind of silk or semi-silk

cord, rather heavy, to tie some book- lets, and found it with great diffi- culty. Why? It is the kind of cord formerly used by school girls and women to tie their braids of hair close to the head, and near the bot tom of the braid-and bobbed hair does not require auch tying So the merchants are not getting in new stock, and for once there is not the excuse of "Japanese gooda."

The yarns in stock seem to be principally German, but there is an Among the important items to be influx of cutlery marked made in considered will be the application Czecho Blovakia, of rather cheap of the Ministry of Railways for quality, which is apparently dis two loans of 920 millions and placing German-made goods. Pari £500,000 for the completion, respec sian perfumes, powders and soap tively, of the Canton-Hankow Rail- are on hand but sell slowly because way and the Tungkwan Siam sec of the price, tion of the Lung Hai Railway. English and American goods ar Completion of the Canton-Han- scarce,, Russian pie goods are on kow Railway, according to estimates sale in every shop, in a great variety of the Ministry, necessitates an ex- of patterns. Socony kerosene is sol- penditure of about 23,700,000, or ling 85.30 a tin, a considerable, in- slightly over $60 millions at the creuse in price... current rate of exchange. It is planned to float a public loan of $45 millions, which together with the 820 million allotment from the Indemnity Refunds, will be suff cient to finance the project-Kuo

Min. My DUTCH BOXER INDEMNITY FUND

AGREEMENT EXPECTED

SHORTLY

Now Things and New Words.

It is interesting to those more er less concerned with the study of the Chinese language to see how new words derived from English are in- themselves into the corporating, common speech. The auto is re (ponsible, for many--- blake - and gas are already fully domesticat edhe Lek-tie adorns the neck of the man devoted to forsign Style shirts and collits, and the bok of' vek so many carry con be nothing else than bag? transli- Nanking, Oct. 28.-Dr. W., J. Rterated and pitched a bit higher in Thorbecks Minister to China, ártone, while the kip no jauntily rived at the Capital from Peiping worn by the schoolboys in the 'onp yesterday and called on Dr. Lo of westerners And a 'tin' is still a Wen Kan, Minister of Foreign in th risen higher as to tone, Allain, 25 disones details concern and need for arrying water, etc. Ing the agreement for the Dutch instead of holding five gallons of Boxer Indemnity Refund

keromne or gasoline. A trade-mark is known as a mak hausa in- teresting combination The first syllable is obviously the English mark shortened by the clition of the difficult mind, and the wond syllable a Chinese term for sign or

It is expected that the next few daye will soo, the conclusion of the agreement by which the fund to be Fanityell to Chupa #ijf babölled

LES TORTIERLIon of refous co servancy projects.-Kuo Min.

are also paid to schools. At best it is a precarious and limited source of income. Moury from of temple fields is more secure, and in Kachek markets the officials grant & cor primary school from the taxes paid tain sum per year to the markeb by sellers in the second or lower market place.

Teachers and Their Qualifications.

Just now the "certification of tea- chers is causing some dificulty. Government regulations say teachers in registered schools must have dip- lomas from at least a lower grade normal school or a recognized col legs with a normal department in which they have had certain hours of work, or else must have live years of experience teaching in a registered school. This disqualifies any excellent teachers, who are told that they must take a corres pondance course, paying 84.00 tui- of said correspondence cou750 very vague, and more definite ar tion, to qualify. As yet the details rangements will be necessary before the law can be enforced.

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