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VI

The Tuchunate And Its "Strong Man."

common sense

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1921.

"A Paper Tirer.“

Tso-lin, who started life as a robber,|hare hitherto been goterned largely to harvest what the former had by the individual trades and indus rightly won. And while Chang's tries directly concerned, without tha; early occupation may explain how / interenetisa of the state in any of he managed to over-geach Wu, the the ways and means obtaining in latter's defeat in the contest for the the West. And in spite of tentativa spoils reveals him as singularly do. Isgislation introduced in recent ficient in political sagacity or rather [years, the effective “law" relating to This poverty of such matters as Banking, Weights The fallowing is the sixth article mind and incapacity for affairs of and Measures, Building, and allied of the series on the Chinese sitas-state is not a promising qualification trades, Food, and generat Trading tion which Mr. Eugene Chen is for one who aspires to overlordship are the work of the Gaikls, And writing for the Canton Informs in Chins. It may be that Wa is except whereas in Canton-the municipal system is in operation, tion Bureau.

developing what the vulgar calls a

This is not immost of the utilities and sanitary If Old Hsu and the Mandarins inswollen head. Peking have ceased to be a govern-probable, since the gallant chap has work of town life are performed ing force, who or what is running bad a good deal of the loud pedal without the intervention of any public body. In passing it may be China north of the great Line of business done for him, not least in

noted that in this self-gorarning the Yangiste and the few provinces the foreign press.

aspect of Chinese life is seen one of south of the Line, which in the

the factors that have made for the special exiting circumstances-may As regards the "Cart" which is

duration and persistence of the race, be grouped with the "North" supposed to be pulled by Wo the

defying the destructive agencies politically! It is the Tuchunate."Halo"-to wit, Tao Sun-the best nation, though the centuries, The thing may be described, in the informed view is that the selected which have levelled other great Em TO LET.- Large, bright, airy | THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL|American way; a sort of political moment will see him collapse aspires and cast their dust into the

shoe-string holding together very easily as Lu Yang-ting (the repated aight of the past. offices, centrally located-Apply

loosely, about a baker's dozen of Strong Man" of the South) fell at Bland's Sketch of Chang Tso-lin. Too little is afl this known, else "scoundrels bright and complete" Nanning in Jnly last. and sa Wang for the common purpose of plunder Chan-yuan toppled over at Wuchas it could not happen that pernicious The undersigned are prepared and loot in the separate interests af in the following month. These critics of the type of Mr. Bisad to quote prices for best quality each "schundrel" The Tuchunate, tuchun and super-tuchens are just would have their "copy" apcepted freshly mined SILIMPOPON COAL, trimmed into Bankers at however, is dominated by the Super. paper tigers, disappearing in and published in reputable organs SEBATTIK or SANDAKAN Tuchunate; and this is so more smoke directly "they come in touch of opinion like the Tiasts and the of the pro- with the flame of some resolate herrer, poisoning men's minds on (British North Borneo) or to especially in the case contract for regular Bunker Sup- vinces which are geographically fighting foren And it is probable la grave hamsa issue such as in the plies for 6 or 12 months at favour-North" of the bisecting Line of that Tsao Kan may soon be elimia wellare of a great piece of God's ated as a political force il General Wearth and a fourth of its numbered | Pei-ju, on show military prestige living soul. In the next article, wa Tao Kan's entirely rests, decides shall deal with Mr. Bland's claim to to exploit the Wuhan situation be considered as a fit and impartial created by the disappearance commentator on Chinese Kifo and

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INJUDICIOUS EATING.

Tsa Kun's cart." The latter classical type" is a dishonest cari- would then be fùrred to shift for cature of the truth as known to any himself: and as a cart is not a "person, definable as both honest that this is written sines the War arce of energy, a mixed mataphor and intelligent" if it is permissible by one who is undoubtedly intelli

A Common Failing. might be permitted in order to to use an apt sad striking phrase, gent, and presumably sane-though not thinking of "Chins under the hazard the forecast that another lately coined by a distinguished he has written many books (we sto)

world vanish in American m another connection.

Many people have themselves paper, tizer"

Sueba limning e! the "Leader of Dowager Empress" which is practi- Bland's Strong Man. bandin' is intelligible only as a cally the work of Mr. Edmund to blame for the fact that they are as shown in the next victims of indigestion, for the The cys uox catches the figure of piece of propagnuda enaring to the Backhouse,

either through over-eating, an Chang T-lia. "At Shanghai, las: incrests either of Chau The-lines article) we have to ask whether trouble is usually brought on Saner. Winter," writes Mr. J. O. P. Bland one who is admittedly contemplat. anything more bopeless and capot upsuïtable diet or faulty masti-

historie

smoke.

in the isse of the Loudon Times of an imperial restoration in China

than this previous "object-

and

cation.

When the ailment becomes chronic victims sometimes fly to pre-digested foods, or purgatives. Mr.Though such things may bring temporary relief, they do not, and cannot, cure.

China sunk to

Just one example of the bene

The super-tuchun.

(a) Chang Tse-lin, tuchun or military governor of south Manchuria, a bandit chief by pro- fession and a monarchist by con The COWIE HARBOUR COAL vistien and a pro-Japanese by neces

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sity, and (b) ons Tsao Kun, tachan of the Metropolitan province of Chihli. sometime pedlar and illiter. ate but drinable, in the Shakes. pearean sense, as one who has had greatness thrust on him. There was another Lember of the Tachurate in the person of Wang (ban yuan who was tucked of August, iz 1920, "amidst the ander the Manchu, or of Japan as lesson" of Mr. Bland can be con-;

Bland's Theory Tested. The use of English as the Hupeh. He is now in residrate in tangled web of faints and faulty the political patron of Chang iste

However, it so happens that official language of the Mixed

one of the foreign concessions. The spun by the delegates to the Peace that the succession of the latter to Court at Shanghai appears to

of Chang Tro-lin, as of a comma Shih-kai would make Japan the! Bland's theory can be tested. Since have teen challenged. All records pertant super-tuchun is one Conierence, men spoke respectfully the unclaimed mantle" of Yass of the Court are kept in English Pei-fu, who gats

To eliminate indigestion we and the police sergeants who round a Loyang, once the rapital power in the land. Even at this dis.limate and real ruler of China, te enunciated in the columns

fame er may be able to decide for his tact, emerged as the Strong Man in most get at the cause, Like all prepare these are obviously un-of feadal Thins and the centre fromance from his seat of Governinent As regards the latter view, the read-the Times, Chang Tee-lin bas, an

self after we shall have outlined North China. It is now almost year other organs of the body, the able to compile them if a variety which Yusa Shih-kai meditated to in Manchuria, kis name and

a point of greatness

has stomach calls upon the blood for requested to apply at the vehicle of languages is to be allowed hold motern China in Imperial sab reached licensing office. C'en'ral Police Lately it has been observed thatijection. The latter was construct. sufficient to suggest that here, at/fr. Bland's connection with the that this leader of banditti'' Station, fer un namel Motor

is, however, internal evidence in his converted the recognised central poor and thin, it calls in vain. in the special division for Russian ing the formidable Kunz Hsien last, might be the Strong Man for Japanese is our next article. There practically dominated reking an nourishment, and if the blood is Vehicle licence number plate. cases this rule has not been follow Arsenal in the vicinity when he was whom the patient people wait."

ID

The Strong Man for whom the contribution to the Times in the government of the country into his Indigestion soon results. Build future, the registrationed and the matter was brought to number plates will be:-

tion suggested. ahead when an application by truck duan Wu now controls this

the root of the trouble. Following a refer-And what has been, the result of this of pure rich blood, and you get to Mutor rass Enamel plate counsel that English be used was arsenal. This Wu may be docketed patient people wait-bere, in words sense of the alternative interpreta-organ and instrument of poliayup the system, maintain a supply That is why Dr. Williams' pink Original plate on the iront of/over-ruled by the Senior Consul's sometime scholar-in-the-making suggestive of the mind of the toneeace to Chang's methods of admin- Strong Man's rule }

the stuck fast at the hsin sai or we have defined for us thestration as closely conforming to lower level than at any time during

turned entire policy of the Foreign Powers the workings of the race-mind-the entire period of her intercourse pills have proved successful in so B.

now A. stage bat

inefficient and many cases of indigestion and Mr. P. M. Linebarger, who was

in China since the establishment of whatever that may mean with the West, an

Peking stomach trouble. They combat Associated in a case with Mr.general

the Chinese Republic in 1912. A Bland dwells the

va

Mandarinate in "positive corrup:

the poisons in the blood, purify A Lord High Unificator. Sviereff, asked that either the

Before turning to his "expectant method of human exploitation, regenins shewn by thang asacre veient and more raps and enrich it, and so enable it to case be heard in English, or else

Lawless health and strength. DOTY that everything be translated into colleagues, it may be convenient to jected as unhe and immoral in the canker, a farmer, a bean trader, a predatory and lawless soldiery more restore the digestive organs to English as the case proceeded, glance at General Wa Fei-ia first. case of the least important of the rice trader, a timber dealer, a trans- predatory He pointed out that English had There is some reason for this course, new national states in Europe or formert-operator al a "speculative mutinies marked by the murders of always been the official language of the Court and it was alwats since be is supposed to be the mis the Arab nomads routing the plains (but profitable opium" tracker. Amencan nationals and the destrucficial results of Dr. Williams' used, whether the Assessor wasitary "route" in the shafts of Tran Iran, is declared to be the fittest Before he defines what is apparent ton of foreign property, besides the pink pills is here gooled. Mrs. Allco Norrie, of 3, St. James's a countryfy the obicet-lesson" of all this wholesale butchery of inoffensive Japanese. Swediab. Italian, Kun's war-cart. And as the latter, form of government for Captain Superintendent of Police. Spanish or any other nationality. it is believed, does not move back exceeding Europe in area, and with foolery about an unmitigated scoon thinese men, women and children Place, Greenwich, England, re-

If it were going to be held that wards like & crab, the male" is population claiming every fourth drel, a story is introduced to illus and systematic looting to wipe off cently said.

of the arrears of an army's pay at Russian was to be used before the accessarily in front. Well, than, human being in the world as a Chitrate the "positive Russian Asseskar. then other General Wu appears to take himself ase. Mora: we go far back into the Chang as a banker. When certain lehang and Wachang:, and the

past "We were

a nation" the banks a: Makica combined to con- death of millions of starring people very run down. For a long time nationalities would claim seriously. according to a recent in- similar right and the work of the terries published in the Shanghai Chinese Delegation at Paris remind-trol exchange in a manner unduly in the famine-area, because the doctor, but not being satisfied themselves. Chang Strong Man refused the rail-cars with his treatment. I sought other ed the World in March, 1919, Jong profitable in impossible. There was the further and in the Tientsin press.

nt for administrative before modem Earope arose out of called a meeting of those chiefly needed for the transport of grain to medical advice, and this doctor to understand". I was point that press facilities were not

the ruins of ald Home. Founders of concerned, and in his role of Tachuo order to be ready to move his bandit gave me involved. Publicity was essential work," he confessed. And making great creeds taught in our midst genially intimated that any further soldiers to any point of "danger" suffering from acute indigestion and palpitation of the heart. I had and local newspapermen were not a virtue of this disablement, he pro when tribal Europe was sacrificing attempt to corner the cash market within the Great Wall

are the twelve bottles of medicine, but to strange maknown gods. And we would result in the summary execu Mr. Roushkorsky argued High Unificator in China to the bad art, letters, morals before evention of the offenders. The stock of fruits of a year's rule by Mr. Bland's one of it did me the slightest Bat there are no good. I was awfully depressed. the Tuchan's own bank has been a Strong Man. Mr. Linebarger--in evident admiration of the corres Paris was founded”.

One may bandits in Manchuria to-day" what I could not eat at all, and was on good market ever since."

milk diet. poddent. I prefer," be declaren

in this ever may be the case in other parts The Assessor said that he could mightily, to remain free to launch We are still a Nation. And the be excused for seeing

"Then, one day I read in a Yes, there newspaper about Dr. Williams* (in 3 Qualities One Tank. Two not compel the use of English in my Lurces against say faction stand-race-brain, a product of 5,000 years pleasant story evidence less of of North China Chang pleader

a parels Russian case. Where it ing in the way of China's unity, as of intellectual and artistic activity, positive genins for banking than of may mge in rejoinder. was not necessary for the Court I have recently done against the old is at least the equal of any other "a leader of banditti" closely con are no banditti in Manchuria to day, pick pills. I obtained a bottle of for a little while the pains I ent to Uae, Two and Three Stars) to hear more than Bassian and Anis remnant in Shepsi. Once a nation's brain in the world to-day. formung to the working of the becaovą irap is the leader of the the pills, and after taking them banditti who used to infest that had been subject to were not so Chinese, he did not see why provincial oficial, I should be fet It may yet be unfamiliar with West robber-mind. English should be insisted upon. tered and could no longer freely

A Bland Government for China. region of extra-mural Chine and violent. I found I could eat food cro concepts of representative Mr. Linebarger pointed out speak or art."

After this edifying sketch of those banditti are now incorporated that I dare not touch before for rovernment and the institutions in that it was not a Russian, but an If General Wa Peifs has been which these concepts are expressed Chang Tso ha and a characteristic in his picked division. Mr. Bland, fear of indigestion. I continned international Court, governed by somewhat foolish in rating high his in the sphere of practical politics statement in the mood of the abse surely, cannot be unaware of a fact with the pilis, and every day saw the Consular Body. who had THE Undersigned bave received accepted English as the official military capacity and power," his None, however, who knows how the flate, regarding the existence of law that is nere easily known to the an improvement. Soon I was able confessed lack of administrative public lile of the Nation has been and order in Manchuris (based least competent authority on the to eat practically anything i ability accords with instructed carried on from

millennium to doubtless on the ample data gather. Far East And yet not a hint of it fancied. I am now feeling åne, The Assessor held to his ruling.

opinion regarding his qualifications millennium can be ignorant of the ed in the course of a quarter-of-sa occurs in his article on Chang, the and enjoy life. I am convinced it "Japanese hosts" is Dr. Williams" pink pills, and AN APPEAL..

with the protege of the es a public man. Though he started great roots of democracy in China hour's talkee-talkee

"personally-conducted Mr. them alone, which have done me Mr. Linebarger stated afterlife as a budding scholar, bis work Its village life, which embraces, ap "scholar' bandit), this philosophic who wards that he will take, the as a Chinese soldier has been con-proximately, 300,000,000 of

the and detached observer imbardens Bland on bis "way through Manso much good.”

Yoo, too, can improve your matter further, being of the sidered quite creditable. But his population, is essentially democra bimself of the following theory of choria to Kores".

digestion by beginning Dr. opinion that the Court rules insist

Williams pink spills now. Any the conduct of cases in dramatic failure to enter Peking in tic whatever its patriarchal features government for China. "Here, be

LABOUR PARTY EXECUTIVE,

dealer can supply, or direct from the summer of last year, after beat may be. And while it may be quick.fore our eyes," he exclaims, "we Eaglish.

Mr. J. Bromley, secretary As- In a case heard prior to this ing Tuan Chi-jur's Japanese drilled aned into richer channels by the have an object-lesson of the simple

Bzechuen Road, Shangbai, at argument, Mr. Roushkovsky, Chinese forces, is explained by the introduction of certain changes truth, that it only needs the strung sociated Society of Locomotive Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 96 prosecuting, had his Chinese fact-which is widely recognised-based on some of the rural systems hand of effective authority-beae Engineers and Firemen, having interpreter, and counsel's remarks that, whatever he may be as in the the West, it is not disfigured volent despotism, in fact-to make been nominated by the railway $1.50 the bottle, $8 for sir bot- A free book "What to Eat," ties, post free. ing witness were translated into man. Of course, this is not at all terise political electioneering in are no bandits in Manchuris today, council of the Trades Union Con- Chinese, but there was no trausla compliment to General, Wa, since most countries abroad.

and if the average Tuchun were gress, has resigned his position or that gives just the information tion of a long explanation as it phes that he lacks the radimen

Again, the commercial and indus- like Chang Teo-lin, there would be the executive of the National you want regarding your diet, Beating in mind Labour Party. He has been suc-will be sent in response to a post- card request. Write for it noWNE between the Assessor and the two

ceeded by Mr. Jones, M.P. tary statecraft which enabled Chang trial activities of Chinese urban life none in China". [defendants.

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"Ia November. 1920. I was

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