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WEST

RIVER HAPPENINGS.

THE PEOPLE IN PERPETUAL TERROR.

WONDERING WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT.

(Pur Pos. Correspondent)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

until an anxious busband watch.. ing on the hilltop, reported that he had sighted a steamer actually coming up the river, and came rushing down to the foreshore to meat his wife.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23. 1923.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

The Empress of Russia moving BUTTER IS ALL FOOD & NO WASTE"

slowly to Kowloon Wharf could not have created more excitewant! than the bravelittleTai Ming strut- ting up the West River with heri chin in the air. In a few moments the foreabore wasaliva with people

Wuchow, January Sih. Meanwhile, the 3rd. and 4th.foreigners coolies, Chinese sold- Nanning was, as usual, teem. Divisious of the Canton Army fiers, all thronging on to the pon- ing with soldiers and with refused to tight for Chan Kingtoon for news. In the noise and rumours when I left just after ming and joined up with La Tafexcitement it was difficult to the beginning of the year. News to support the cause of Suncatch the news, but I learned that had come through that Wurbow Yat-sen. was once more in the hands of the Kwangsi Army and that the Cantonese soldiers had retreated to Do Sing and would probably fall back on Shuihing.

the Tai Ming had come through without any trouble at all and that all was quit. below, Some: body on deck called out that there had been fighting at Samshui for five hours when five soldiers had Eiled! Somebody રામન been called out that Chan King-ming! had left Canton.

There was no general looting at Wuchow before the 1st, Divi sion left, though there were some districts of the city that suffered At Naam Heung, where we

considerably. On the whole, the stayed long enough to purchase city seems to have fared much fuel And provisions. we better than did Nanning under

told that Wong Ming-similar circumstances last year. tong had been defeated

The streets are hung with lags Limehow, near Pakhoi. and and the familiar banners display, driven back to Ng Lei. Everying their "Welcome" in Chinese place at which we touched was charactors. We have becoma newspapers from Hangkong-and swarming with Kwangsi soldiers

word

shivering in the north wind, ill- protected by badraggled wadded garments. The Kwangsi soldiers have certainly learned how to "endure hardness 1"

mea. от

Then, after congratulating the Captain, everybody singer, to await their mail and their latest

Use it in every way possible in preparing and cooking

other foods.

By doing so you not only improve their favour, but

add tremendously to their food value.

th

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR

BUTTER "

Think of it as vital food and not as a luxury.

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familiar with these banners everything seemed happy and THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. in their ugly grey uniform or they seem to do equally wellery in the clear, morning sun- whoever comes, be it Sun and light and the crisp, fresh air, until his

Chan

I came by the hospital entrance and bish

and saw a wounded soldier, lying army or the Kwangsi troops once more coming into their owr.crouched with anguish on the They are all welcome" it only steps, while his comrades waited they will not molest the ordinary, anxiousty for the word of com peaceful citizen, whose one desire andto carry him into the already- He had probably is to rear his family and attend full wards.

been brought up from a town to his own business!

twelve miles below Wuchow

scattered soldiers":

The river is very low, and the rapids dangerous and ditheult to negotiate in this strong northwind. On the Grand Rapil, where an- gry rocka jat out, with the water literally boiling in between them, we came across one motor boat, which had emptied all her passen gers on to the shore, where they were hurriedly making their way to the end of the Rapi, antious to re-embark and

To-day, January Sch., a stream where some

Scattered soldiers " is a term for

soldiers who have turned robbers.

of wounded are coming into the from the Canton Army, had st Baptist Hospital from Shishing.tacked some Kwangs troops. and the fist "mail for eight daya has arrived overland via Do Sing and Tak Hing These are the two events to break the silence. Wu. onetow is torpid. paralysed for the with the journey. One cannot but time being, the men are in hiding admire the extraordinary pluck for fear of being press ganged, the and skill of these Wes River motor boats afraid to come is for paralysed city with shops and pilots. Oae slightest error fear of being commandeeted. of julgment

X-

calculation

and the bost mast be dashed

од the rocks and completely wrecked.

On

And so goes on, the same weary round of fighting and scheming, plotting and bribing and all there is to show for it is

next.

stores fast-closed, and a hospital full of wounded soldiers. And The foreigners in Wuchowthe common people go timidly have learnt to rely very largely a their way, wondering what

to going bapen Hongkong for their food supplies, preferring to buy meat desiring only to be let alone At Kwai Yuen we found a great width has been inspected into live peaceable lives and to pur. fleet of junks on its way up to Hongkong rather then purchase sue their daily routine. Naoning, with much-needed Sup the cative supply, which is al

Since Sam Hung-sing came plies of kerosine oil. The soldiers, ways plentifullyblown" who were acting as guards in case water to add to ite weight, down from Peng Lok to Wuchow of robbers appearing. had a

But last week it occurred to a W-there has been great discussion dramatic story to tell of an attack chow foreigner that in all probat among the merchants as to what! by a band of 200 armed robbersty the beef which arrives en is to be done about the paper which Sam has issued. below Kwai Yuen. The robbers ice from: Hongkong bud in the pote

with!

the

were said to be in possession first place been shipped from Wu. He was abxicus to font- $50,000 of machine guns and were chow to Hongkong He went of those notes in the city, but the exceedingly violent, "fighting down and selected & chaice ani- merchants refused to accept them. like tigers' 30 the soldier mal from the herd lying on the They even suggested that they affirmed though we wondered at foreshore, had it slaughtered by should subscribe a sum of mones

themselves for the entire absence of wounds among them all! Finally they consented to clear off on payment of a large sum of money, and the trembling junk masters were allowed to proceed to Kwai Yuen.

These gentlemanly pir ates left their calling cards and a signed receipt for the money received!

a skilful Chinese, spread a large, among clean sheet over the butcher's soldiers, rather than be compell- block, gave instructions to the jed to sell their goods for the new astonished Chinese 84 to how paper money.

Travelling on the West River nowadays is very like living in a chapter out of a serial story in a schoolboy's magazine. It is never monotonous each day seems to bring some fresh peril or story of adventure. One day we may be watching a band of soldiers search. ing a villam fotrobbers, while the miserable inhabitants stand hud- dled on the nutskirts, another we pass a huge floating raft and see a robbar band demanding money from the helpless bootmen.

to clean and Cut up the

carcass, and was able to provide Many of the larger stores clos- the community with most excel-ed their doors, and only a little of tent cuts of beef!

the paper money crept into cir culation through the fantan shops, The A. P. Company's motor which are chielly frequented br boat Nanning left the port yester- the soldiers. Then supplies began day with the British Consul and to run short in the barracks, and M. Druitt on board and at the soldiers this last week have taken same time the British gunboat to entering a store and demand- Tarantula proceeded to Shiubinging that the merchant sell thera The merchants Beaure To-day the Moorhen has arrived rice.

in Warhow, having been fired on them they had none for sale. eighteen times on her way up Whereupon the soldiers level the river.

their rides, search the store, find some tice. Icom which they take If only the robour hands have enough for their reeds, and been drawn back into the army off, after leaving a sum of Sam- and the waterways upcountry paper notes on the counter to are pace more open, there will be pay for it! some slicht compensation for the villige folks in all this turmoil During these twenty days Wu-! and strife. They have lived for chow has been absolutely pace- months in perpetual terror of ful and it has been distressing to! robbers and pirates, their crops, the foreign residents, to see the their livestock, their wives and false reports of bombardments and daughters being in constant aeroplane attacks, which have! danger from attack by roving crept into some of the Hongkong bands of brigande, who are papers and caused a great deal of nothing are than solliers "out unnecessary anxiety to friends of a job. To fighting belex in Hongkong and other places. At Kwai Peng we heard that will draw many of them away The only hardship the foreigners the Canton Army had retreated from the country and thus in this port have had to undergo down the West River as far 48 help to relieve the situation for has been the absence of boefsteak -Tak Hing and the Kwangsi the time being.

and fresh batter.

soldiers were still pursuing. Lo

Even now, as I at writing in this littlesaloon, three days' jour ney from Hongkong, we may at any moment hear the crack of ballets and be commanded to lie flat on the floor and keep ab- solately still until the captain.can ascertain what the brigands mesa to do.

To and Sam Hung.ying are said Late this evening news has to be joining with Lan Wan-chan arrived

has

that

Shiubing

YOUR GLASSES SHOULD GIVE REST

are

to hold Wuchow, the key to the fallen to the Kwangsi Army. and comfort to your eyes. If they province of Kwangsi. Rumour which evidently intends to do and if the mountings are pro- All also says that the Cantos leaders press on to Samshui. Most of perly adjusted, they are barrassed by the fact that the oldiers formerly under General Kwaan, who died recently in Canton, are refusing to Eght.

the wounded who are returning Right. Do not be satisfied unless to Wuchow are Kwangsi mec. they are. There is no comfort in They are evidently fighting with a spectacles that are merely "good will, spurred on by the remem-enough." They are either Kight brance of many months spent in or All Wrong. If your glasses Arrived at Wachow, we found the wilds of their own province, are in need of changes, adjust- the

river looking absolutely scorched by the summer sun and rents or repaire, send them to the "dead," the long line of pontoons then chilled by the bitter North Hongkong Optical Co., successors closed, no steamers coming or winds of winter, while their to Clark & Co., refracting and going either down to Hongkong enemies ate and drank and lived manufacturing opticians (the and Canton or up to Nanning. No at their ease in the city of originators of manufacturing mail from Hongkong had been | Wuchow, received for a week. The rumours we heard above are quite true.

Wuchow, January 18. On December 29th., Chao King.

This morning, after an interval ming's 1st. Division marched out of twenty days, a steamer has of Wuchow and proceeded to come through from Hongkong. Shiching. No sooner hul they There was i very persistent: departed than Lo To and his rumour in the port yesterday Red Heads came pouring in like that the Tai Ming was on her locusts, to be followed later by way up the river, but rameure Sam Hung-ying'e men from have been so numerous that! Feng Lok on the Foo River, WO only half-believed it,

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