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A quarterly non-political review of life and conditions in China.

Changing China is an interesting and useful quarterly. The articles which it contains have been written in the form of letters by men and women of various ranks of life who are living in the interior of China, They are not professional writers with any axe to grind but are describing what they have actually seen and experienced The reader gets a picture or rather a series. of pictures of life in Modern China, and at the same time a resumé of the progress made in industrial development during the past quarter. 、、

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HONAN AND SZECHUAN

The Development of Communications

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PROPOSED AMALGAMATION OF SOLICITORS & BARRISTER 3

19.—Vigorously Opposed By the Dally Press'.

May, 29, 1838. and inconveniences the present We understand that a petition system may entail, it must be no- has been presented to the Legisla- thing better than wild conjecture Some interesting impressions of tive Council numerously signed by to speculate on the evile which the progress proceeding despite the tur- the Community, praying for the proposed alteration may involve. moil of civil warfare, Communists amalgamation of the two branches The only analogy we can cite is the and bandits were gathered by Mr of the legal profession. As this is system which obtains in the United A. H. Gorda, general manager simply tantamount to ousting the States, where it is notorious in all and chief engineer of Callender's Attornies altogether, we think the new settlements, there being only Cable & Construction Co., Ltd., in subject requires more consideration' one branch of the profession, not

two, litigation, usury, and legisla Shanghai, who has just returned than has been accorded to it.

tive influence, cause lawyers to be. from a six weeks' business tour

come the bane of the place. We humbly submit that had this com- munity acted under proper influ- ence in framing the petition, they would have prayed for a Tribunal of Commerce, and a mercantile litigation.

through parts of Honi and Sze chuan, in the course of which he covered more than three thousands miles in the interior, by every for of transport from coal train to aeroplane. During this greater part

An outstanding feature which made itself evident throughout the trip, stated Mr. Gordon in an inter view with the North-China Daily deira was the remarkable develop ment in means of communication Everywhere new highways are being built, in spite of general lack of money, and inhabitants of countless towns are clamouring for roads to link them up with other communi ties, notwithstanding the fact that un compensation is paid for land taken from them for such improve ment purpars. They are willing to stand loss of property in the hope of raising the value of what re

The Governor of Szechuan, too, has decreed that wherever a new bridge is constructed it shall be sufficient to carry a full width

As no complaint against any, of the Attorneys at present practising has ever been before the Court, and as the present. movement is, we be lieve, got up by the Barristers, it is self evident that no case has been made out sufficient to justify the

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of the journey Mr. Gordon was 2-departure contemplated" from the However, we feel assured that companied by his daughter. usual course of administering Briany ordinance to amalgamate the Collusion between the two branches of the profession will tish laws. the branches of the profession and be disapproved by the Home. Gov- of the thousand evils resulting erament. The attempt will conse from it, is not the inconvenience quently be prejudicial to our Bar, complaited of, for in this instance and, exciting an ill feeling be there are overwhelmning proofs tween the Attornies and the Com that the reverse is the case. The munity, will, if we mistake not fact is, that our present corps of eventuate in increased litigat on Solicitors, much to their credit, be and the migration of an addi- it spoken, instead of promoting tional number of Barristers. For litigation, are in the constant habit our Attornies will surely defend of assisting amicable adjustments, their just rights hy petition and thus dispensing entirely with the remonstrance, and will doubtless services of the Barristers, except induce barristers to come out un- the small hard earned fee, award-der promises of support, who will ed them as umpires and arbitra- be satisfied to confine themselves On the other hand the fees to their legitimate branch wrthout tors. of Barristers in litigated cases have interloping on that of the Solici been repeatedly denounced as extors; or if, on the other hand, the orbitant. In fact, we know of more Barristers should succeed in their cases than one, on which elaborate attempt to oust the Attornies, the and reliable opinions have been latter will be driven to low prac secured from London for one or tise, which, with such a population two guineas each, for which 8100 as Hong Kong possesses, would he would be expected here and then calamitous indeed, and multiply were not worth the paper they were the evils of litigation-the existence written on. We hardly think the of which is we presume the ground community are qualified to judge work of the petition. in this matter. Whatever evil!

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Cables Under Huang Ho

From Shanghai Mr. Gordon travelled to Suchowfu, nothing en qute rapid progress being made by Messrs. Dorman Long, with which his own firm is associated in China, in the preparation for #the: ap- proaches te the Nanking-Pukov train ferry. A railway now runs from Suchowfu "right to Haichów, where the Netherlands Harbour Works are preparing a new deep:

TERRORISTS AT SHANGHAI

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sea port which will be completed] HIGHER COURT INCREASES this year. One of the main objects. of Mr. Gordon's journey was in connection with the laying of two submarine cables for long distance Telephones under the Yellow River

SHANGHAI, July 13. at points two hundred miles distant! Much heavier sentences were from each other. These will bridge passed by the Second Branch gaps which previously existed in Kiangau High Court yesterday telephone communication between morning on six self-confessed mem Kaifeng and Fengkiu and between bers of the anti-Japanese body Loyang and Muihsien. the only known as the "Bloody Group for connecting links to the present the Extermination of Traitors" as time across the Yellow River haya result of police appeal against | ing been those which cross the mail way bridges, Probably few people in Shanghai realise the hundreds of miles of long distance telephone lines now operated in Honan and other parts of China, Mr. Gordon was present at Chinotso at the in

the First Special District Court's decision of January 11, under which, the six anti-Japanese ter- rorists received gaol terms range ing only from a month to seven years.

(To be continued)

ISLANDS NEAR P.I. CLAIMED

FRENCH TAKE OVER GROUP

OFF INDO-OHINA

Paris, July 13, It was officially reported to-day that French dispatch boats took possesion in the name of France of nine islands between Indo-China and the Philippines, hitherto un- claimed.

The position was given east 10 degrees north and 115 degrens east:

Records of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey show that there is a group of small islets and reefs lying between 10 to 11 degrees north latitude and 114 and 113 east longitude, which are auguration of the new high tension One of the respondents, who was unnamed and evidently include the transmission line for supplying elec. sentenced to seven years' impr1.islands mentioned in the above dis tricity from the pitmouth to neigh-eived a gaol term of 12 years yes!

sonment by the Lower Court, re- patch.

The islands are uninhabited, but bouring towns. Mr. Harold Porter, terday. The same sentences were sometimes are visited by fishermen of the Pekin Syndicate, who per passed by the High Court upon. two from Hainan island. formed the opening ceremony by others of the terrorists who were elosing the main switch, received

There is wood, and water on some

from Callender's a memento in the originally sentenced to three and of the islands, which lie about 200 forma of a solid silver switch. four months' imprisonment respec- miles outside the Philippines treaty

tively. Another respondent was given suspended sentence by the Lower Court, but yesterday he was sent to gaol for six years.

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The islands are come 200 miles off Palawan. The waters in that vici. nity have never been thoroughly. charted.

Proceeding to Hankow, where, the river

and at that time reached within six inches of the top of the bund wall. Mr. Gordan visited sid

The police appealed mines at Tayeh which a Chinese company are developing with mo- grounds that the charges agains

all of a dernised methods. In connection the respondents were with the re-organisation of the

serious nature, namely, that they NEW SOURCE OF ILLICIT indulged in terroriet activities

OPIUM city's electricity supply, he spent during the end of last year, in- same time in Chungking, which is cluding murders, bomb throwings installing a new super power sta-

and saulfs on merchants alleged-

tion similar to that at Hangchewly dealing in Japanese goods, and UNGUARDED SIAM FRONTIER The return trip from Chungking to Tchang, made by air liner above the that the Lower Court had failed mighty gorges was particularly to investigate the facts and had picturesque.

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BANGKOK, July 6. Another illustration of the extent to which illicit opium is smuggled into Siam from the Chinese and Shan countries has been forthcom ing this week. Over one thousand taels have been found making their way to the big market in Bangkok by means of the northern railway) This particular capture Was comprised of three lots--one secreted on a locomotive, one in a coach, and the third lat in a coach of a second train.

regarded as trivial grave and seri ous crimes which justified the im- In Communist Regions"

position of the maximum penalties.

During the hearing of the ap Though Mr. Gordon passed trains peal, the respondents all maintain packed with soldiers on their way ed stout denial of the charge of attack Central Government premeditated murder as preferred troops ar the forces of some tival by the police. They declared their general, the traditional-every-day intention was only te warn the life of the people stemed remark merchants against further dealing ably little changed in fundamen- in Japanese goods and had no inten- tals. In districts over which he tion of doing bodily harm to any flew, and, which were said to be in person-M-C. Daily News. the hands of Communists, the soil was being tilled as it has been for centuries, peasants were hoping for good crops to bring better times and industry was proceeding under difficulties. To the common, popu Jacs. the ouly difference which in: wherever there are roads. These service over the longest and one of the best Aurfaced roads Siam, ternal strife meant was apparently extend as far as Chengtu, but civil

The frontier, can posscases. whether they paid their taxation to

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