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ECHOES OF 1858

144.—Trouble With the Governmenta Oplum Farmer

*

RUSSIA'S FAR EAST

PROVINCES

Placed On Military

Basis

STORES AND SHIP BUILD- ING AT VLADIVOSTOK

* AUGUST 24, "1858.

warrant must be procured-before It will be observed from our ad that could be done the. opium! vertising columns that Tenders are would be removed to a house-and

HABBIN, July 28. invited for the opium boiling before a search warrant could be received new information regarding Official circles in Harbin have just monopoly in consequence of the had for that the opium would be the work being carried on by the defalcation of Chun-tai-kwong sold.

Soviet in the Far East from which it The strongest assurances, it will be We maintain that this is all is evident that every endeavour is seen, are given that there will be bopeep red-tapeism. The more being taken to have the Maritime the most scrupulous good faith and strict the privilege, the better in Provinces placed on a military basis impartiality observed regarding every respect, whether on account at the very earliest moment to be the Tenders The advertisement of the enhanced value of the farm ready for any outbreak of war. is however silent on the subject ot-causing the privilege to bring a

Work is being carried on at an the nature and extent of the pro- higher price of subsequent occa intense rate not only on land but also lection which the Government are sion; or on account of the protec-at sea as quite lately a sensation was ready to afford to the Opium tion which fair Traders have a caused at Vindivostok by the issue of Farmer. The terms of the licence right to expect. We say, appoint an order forbidding ocean steamers to or privilege to be granted him a special detective officer for the enter the Bay of the Golden Horn, this should, in our opinion, be publish purpose-let the informer have order being given not only to foreign ed and not be as it was before, half and the seizing officer the steamers but also to those tying the

Soviet fag. given in any shape the govern- other half. We would not let the meat might please..

farmer have anything to do with only war vessels to be found in the At the present moment there are We are no admirers of Chun-tai-the seizures-if the officer appoint-Golden Horn Bay, the number of such kwong, and have no wish to come ed did not do his duty, let the steadily increasing. It may not be forward in his defence. Neverthe- farmer complain to the Colonial known to everybody that there is a less common sense and justice Secretary. If the farmer chooses large ship-building yard at Vladivostok compel us to state that the governs to inform, of course, he would be and that several foreign specialists as mant of this Colony bebaved un- come entitled to half the seizure.well as a number of engineers and fairly towards him-in fact un- If the law cannot be pacified, but shipbuilders have arrived from justly. He was decidedly led to must have search warrants, then Odeas. The authorities have adopted suppons that he was to have the surely it can be dodged by power measures to prevent any person seeing exclusive privilege of preparing being given to the seizing officer what is being done at the shipbuilding Opium, and. of Course never: to issue them from a blank book Vladivostock is quite certain that new

..but the population dreamt otherwise than that the to be carried about with him for war vessels are being constructed government had both the power and the purpose. the will to prevent the privilege At the same time be it, known has been entirely renovated and is The dry dock at the Golden Horn being infringed upon. Yet it ap and made manifest that we do always engaged in repairs of war pears that the privilege could be strongly denounce the principle of vessels, and as this dock is a very large and was evaded, owing to the in- Trade at this port being tradi-one it can accommodate some of the direct application of the very law melled or fettered in Any

yessels now alost. which was relied upon-we mean whatever, ana gross breach of!

wayat attention is being paid to the right of search. Thus we be faith on the part of the British fortifications along the frontier as well lieve that ten opium bailing shops Government towards the Coloniste, na the construction of many aerodromes Started at Cheem-tsatsoey im- and quite contrary to the prin- where seroplanes would be able to mediately it appeared that Chun- ciples laid down, and the promises descand in case of necessity. tai-kwong's privilege could be in- made to those, Luyers of land, Rivers are fully used to bring stores of Both the Amur and the Ussuri waded. The Opium there prepared without whom the Colony never all kinds from the interior of Bussia as was seat across to this Colony, and 'could nor Dever would have well as light and heavy artillery, tanks,

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THREE MEN CHARGED:..

ONE SENTENCED.

Three Chinese appeared before Mr. Schofield at Central Magis tracy yesterday to answer three charges each

1.

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2

Participation in an armbed robbery at Chai Wan in which they stole articles of clothing,

topee, etc. Possession of offensive

armoured cars and seroplanes.

of

War Not Wanted. Evidently Soviet Russia, notwith- standing its peaceful policy is deter mized not to be caught napping and ia making preparations for war on a colossal scale. The population of the Maritime Provinces seeing the pre- parations that are now going on are fully convinced that there will be war.

But it is difficult for them to express any opinion of their own as they are guided by the Commissar and have nothing to read excepting those papers which the government published itself and which are all of one tenor.

There are many stories printed re- world but there is really nothing aut garding famine in this part of the hentic to be learned about the situa tion and probably this refers only to wea-such people as have not recognised the Soviet Government up to the present time and are known in the country as "lishentai," or persons without rights.

3. Receiving a topee, a pair of

trousers and a jacket.

An extraordinary article appears in

hended: "Siberia as an Colony" According to this article The three defendants were Hung confirmation has been received in Har-Kam, Chan Nga and Hung Shek bin of the intention of the Soviet all dockyard coolies. The first and Government to lease its Far Eastern ther defendants pleaded guilty but land to the U.S.A. giving that country the second denied knowledge of widle privileges in the Far East and th everything. part of Siberia itself.

as above stated.

There is no doubt that there are

ample stores of grain for the army and that the supplies of war materials arc so great that in the event of a war breaking out there will be sufficient in the Far East to carry it on för The first two charges were with fresh supplies from European Bussis.

several months without bringing any drawn. On the third charge a Chinese named Lam Pui, the comfigures as to the strength of the Soviet It is quite impossible to get any plainant, gave evidence of identi-army in the Far East at the present tying the property which had been moment, but the parades which were stolen from his matshed at Wang held on May 1 at Habarovsk and Hang. Shaukiwan, on July 28 by Blagoveschensk prove that there are far more troops in the Far East at veral masked men.

Sub-Inspector Logan told. His the present moment than there have Worship that when arrested

been for several years and even more taken to their huts first defendant than in 1929 when the conflict be admitted ownership of the

tween China and Soviet Russia över

It is stated that this idea was broached by the U.S.S.R. to the U.S.A several years ago Mr. Sokolnikoff, during his office as Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, endeavouring to come to some arrangement for an agreement At that time Soviet Russia found that it was necessary to apply to America for machinery to enable it to eirry out the programme of industria- lism which was featured in the Five Years Plan, and as the purchase of and the third said the trousers the railway question broke out.

were "his..

and

topeo

of

Though there are so many rumours possible war, common sense im

heavy machinery from the US.A. | would entail the payinant of chorious Chinese Detective Chang Tak pels one to come to the opinion that sums of goiri dollars, the idea of lensing gave evidence of arresting the three neither side wishes to enter into a Eastern Siberis to the U.S.A. was defendants in a tea house in Shau- confict which will cost many lives eagerly seized upon.

Now that President Roosevelt has kiwan, along with three others who and an enormous sum of money | taken the reins of government into his hand and seems to desire to re- cognise Soviet Russia, there is much

were afterwards released. He also which neither Soviet Russia nor testified to finding the topee and Japan can afford.-N.C.D.N the clothing in the hut.

more chance of bringing the lease intotective's evidence and the defend- Sergt. Baker corroborated the de

life that there was before.

As far as can be learned it is l'ants were the asked what they had proposed to give a lease for a long to say.

were silent but the one who plead

term of years of lands in the Far East The first and third defendants which could be exploited minerally with American capital and not only ed not guilty was.voluble. He kept bring very much income to the on repeating that he did not know U.S.S. R. from royalties, but also find the clothing had been stolen and employment for thousands of Soviet that it had been given to him, by a citizens who at present are without work, for though the Borist Govern-man named Lo Kam

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class of people who are not in the did not mean that he bad guilty With a total of six buses, three rau-penses, and the hospit-I here will Party" and, therefore, have hardly knowledge with regard to it, Mr.ning to a small town approximately furnish touchers without cost for the any work to do and almest nothing Schofield discharged the third de ten kilometres south and three run- scientific training of the students." to eat.

fendant. The second was also let ning west about ten mies to Penuu, The Cholera Hospital to be supplied Much Capital Wanted. off, the Magistrate deciding that we have had our first accidents, One by the city is also being fitted for the There is untold wealth to be found there was no evidence against him of the victims was struck, by re-expected ran of patients. This will In this quarter of the globe which either.

Dobrang turning bus, thrown to the ground relieve the quarters of the New hospi- possesses not only gold but coal, cop- The first defendant was sentenced and had his left ear completely tal which is still functioning in a few per, graphite, oil and possibly plati- to three months hard labour, His severed. The patient is quite re Chinese buildings pending the finis. nam but the exploitation of mines in Worship deciding that it was "per covered but is a pitiful sight, The hing of the new edifice, this part of the world requires fectly clear he had shared the booty other case was one that fell from the enormous capital.

with the armed robbers:

top of the bus when the car gave Heary rains falling during the lurch in starting. The patient suf- fered a fracture of the skull and died two days after the accident. In both cases the drives of the cars were not held responsible.

The scheme of constructing a great railway line along the northern part of Siberia has been spoken of for some time and if this were inally construct- ed there would be only 75 km. of water between the Siberian coast and Alsake. It is possible that the con cossion would be given to American engineers to construct such a railway which would be of enormous value to Soviet Russia as it would pang some of the richest gold districts of the north and would also be able to convey fish from the shores of Kamchatka into the centre of Bussisch

sko Bale Trom Attack.

Enormous Crop

forepart of the week have been a blessing to the farmers and the rice levels and the reserve ponds are filled There should be an enormous crop of produce this year.

BURIED IN FALL OF EARTH

WIVES WATCH FRUITLESS RESCUE OPERATIONS.

Sydney, August 9. Twenty-five

ment worked unceasingly for sixteen hours today to free men who had been

buried by a fall of earth in a well on the Armageddon station, a

Thomas Stewart, 23 years old, and Herbert Drummey, 36, were killed, while their wives stood by helplessly enduring the terrible ordeal, Fever- ish attempts were made to save the men whose pitiful appeals for help deeply affected the band of rescuers Beuter

missar for the Asiatic Department of the Foreign Commissariat of the U.. 8. Band, therefore, there may be some truth in the rumours that are being published by the Russian pressing a school to train midwives and The City of Changchow is bind-

A How Bridge an of Harbin,plus ch

The new concrete bridge over the work has actually started near the cast outside the North gate towards Politically such a lease would be of East Gata... The order came from the Railway Station is finished and enormous value to Soviet Russia as it Nanking that all cities were to train will be open for traffic in a few days, jong would entirely preclude any possibi- and register the midwiven and that This bridge is a boon to the City as lity of any other nation getting any any person practising influence in the Maritime Province, bering would be punia and at the same time would make

It must not be forgotten that Mr. Sokolnikoff who was in favour of leas U. B. R. R' quite sale mom may attack an order that will be ing Eastern Biberia to America some on her eastern ** coset by her power the people in Years ago, is now the Peoples' Com- fal neighbour.

erect, the building and

gis- | it shortens vand, straightens out the is road, and is built so that the motor

1 by cars will be able to c

to | bridge spanning 2. small ex- (Continued at foot of her

south of the new Hospital is to be built. The concrete piles are made but work - seems to be lacking on. other parts of the work. This bridge Just is being built and paid for by one of Kuria) | the local Gentry —17.Ç.DİN.