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Chinese Derelicts of Paotzeku.

THURSDAY, JULY ~19 1923.

lieve, below the average, and the people are desperately indus. trlous. But to wipe out the re- Proach of this district and make brigazdage a thing of the past, The Chinese Generi Chamber not machine-guns are needed, but of Commerce bus serits further was government and that the telegram to the Military and taxs wrung from the land shall Civil Governors of Shan- return to the land. Contrast with tung demanding instant action this crying disgrace the criminal to effect the release of disregard and shameless intrigue the

wretched Chinese still of Peking. Have Culness officials captive AL Protzekin. We and politicians no bowels of have already once called atten: mercy? tion to the derelict state of these. poor people and their pathetic message cannot be forgotten:

Now that the foreigners have MYSTERIES OF PACIFIC. been let go," they wrote, ""nobody bothers any more about

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Scientist's. Voyage of Discovery.

That is not strictly correct; but it appears wholly and most scan- dalously true as regards those who should be their deliverere, statos a recent issue of the North China In a little room on the sixth ily News. From what we can floor of a suite of offices in the learn there are about a hundred West End the finishing touches Chinese captives at Paotz ku. are being put to a scheme which There were more; but few in its aim recalls the spacious weeks ago the infamous Bobo days of Elizabeth and the romano Liu who appears to be a fend of the voyages of discovery of incarnate, threw forty-eight of Drake, Hawker and Frobisher. them off the mountain tep, A scientific expedition is being presumably because be saw a fitted out to explore the myster- of the Pacific. Famous chance of getting raneoms for es

We are told it is a literal scientists will sail the Southern them. fact that this inhuman monster Seas to gather some of the wealth thinks nothing of tearing children of material which awaits research limb from limb and grinding their among the aun-baked coral is-1 elders to death ander a stone rol. lands of the East. lor. The remaining prisoners are

One of the promoters of the reputed rich and hopes of getting scheme is a great-grand-nephew. mores from them have served for of Captain Cook, the discoverer the sparing of their lives. But of Australia, another, the Captain the misery in which they dragon of the st. George, in which the their existence can hardly be imparty will sail, tears a new agined. Many of them have been distinguished in British navul in captivity for many months, annals. They pass their days in dull, ab-j ject despair amid unspeakable conditions. They cannot be far from melancholy madness,

I found them, bath in the little

room, which is simply furnished. save for the glowing colours of the Moroccan rugs upon the floor (writes, a Daily Nears represent Many of the world's ative)

In Septemb'r the captain of the StGeorge will sai for the Pacifio.

Doubtless their state is little or no worse than that of thousands of prisoners in bandit keeping all adventurera have been in this over China. Hardly a day passes little room recently, for the final but our correspondents in the in-members of the crew have been terior of China tell us of bandite chosea.

Like the Navy in which ha carrying off the well-to-do from their homes. Use has so accus-served. the Captain was silent, tamed us to this horrid state of He refused details, and I bad to affairs that we read of them now search alaowhere for information almost without emotion. But the about the Scientific Ex-editionary fact that there are thousands of Research Association.. others in durance qually vile) must not deter us from joining with the Chamber of Commerce in loud protest against the un regarded incarceration of te pri- soners of Paotzeku. Their position is the m re pitecus in that, they have had the anguish of seeing their foreign fellow-suffers re- leased while nothing is done for them. That their families have not.ransomed them is due to the impossible height at which the ransom money has been put, But, Bebo Liu is not the only bandit! chieftain or authority and it is thought that if the gentry and. chambers of commerce of Shan-. ung will assist, a compromise may be effected ard a smaller: rane on accepted.

NOT THE LAST WORD. But no more in the case of the Chiness than of the foreign cap- tives can the outrage of Lincheng and all the attendant horrors which it has brought to light be permitted to end there. Brigand- age there has always been in southern Shantung, but that it is far worse-to-day than it has ever been, is due to perfectly preventa- bla causes. The Lincheng and Paotz-eku districts are off the beaton track, communication throughout them is scarce and difficult, the population has in- creased beyond the present capa. city of the region to support it, and while the greater part of the land is held by a few huge land- owners, the peasantry are 1910 ground down by debt, poverty and taxwion that they taus to the hi ls, as the phrase for joining the brigands goes, because there is no other livelihood for them. The conditions under which the poorer people of this district live are almost unbelievable. They work in the mines twelve hours, at a stretch for thirty-eight cash a day. When shown a copper cent they literally do not know, what! it is. As for education they do not know the word and for food they know nothing but the eternal kaoliang.

Something of the same problemt, though not in terms quite so hideous, confronted the Italian Government in Southern Italy twenty years ago. There, too, the land was owned by a few rich men, the peasantry were no bat- ter than serfs, parpetoally a proy to alternate floods and drought: By a wise policy of afforestation and irrigation, by building huge reservoirs for water and a pet- work of canals, the Italian Gov ernment has changed the whole face of Reggio Calabria and Bagi- liosta. They are smiling and prosperous now and the "Bouth- ern problem" exista no mora. Bo' might it be in Shantung... The fertility of the soil is not, we bo

Hie yacht of 1,000, tons will carry eight scientists, representing. Botany. General Biology. Oruithology. Marine Biology. Geology. Oceanography. Entomology.

Their job is research: all their expenses will be paid for them.

The task of choosing the eight, scientisc adventures is now baing undertaken by the advisory. council of the association, which numbers among its members Bir Frederick Keeble, Sir Hercules Read, Sir Martin Conway, and Professor Stanley Gardiner,

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The St. George will carry number of passengers as well, The trip will last about 10 months and the charge per passenger will work out at £900, for Expedi- tions, Ltd., has set out in the in- terests of science to make ro- search pay.

Scientists are notoriously poor, and expeditons abroad are notor- So the pro- iously expensive

moters of the association formed anall company to protect the association. Arrangements have been made to apply the surplus prot to further the cause of

foreign research..

The very names of the ports of call on the first cruise conjure up the burning beauty of the Cropics the coloured lure of the South

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Panama. Raipa. Galapagos: Australe. Pitcairn Tahiti. Mauza Reva. Cocos.

The crew is now-complete; they are all tried and experienced for passengers. Thirty, in all,

sailors. There are stili vacancies

will be carried,

There should he work for the Scientific Expeditionary Research Association for years to come. There are whole worlds to re- discover in Melanesis, along the North Coast of Australia down the coast of South America.

It is hoped to make the associa- tion a permanent Handmaidon of Science;" to create a stable and self-supporting organization to probe into the myriad mysteries

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