The Archive

Saturday, 24 January 1920

  1. The North-China HeraldProfiteering in HousesJan, 22. The position of housing in Shanghai is no better than it was six months ago, if anything it is worse. The influx of residents has not ceased, and comparatively few houses have been added to the total available, …
  2. The North-China HeraldThe Shantung ClauseWe have received a copy of two telegrams sent yesterday by the China National Students Federation, one to the Government, one to the Ministers in Peking of Great Britain, France, Italy and America. One sentence from the …
  3. The North-China HeraldThe Shantung ClauseIf China had no good fortune with her Internal Peace Conference, she had even legs in the Conference at Versailles which terminated the great war. Lu Cheng-hsiang, C. T. Wang and Wellington Koo took with them when they l…
  4. The North-China HeraldNorth and SouthProbably the most absorbing feature of China's political history for the year has been the attempts to bring about peace between the North and the South. The appointments of Chu Chi-chien and Tang Shao-yi as Chief Northe…
  5. The North-China HeraldBolshevik Agents in China7 Arrests up Country Information has reached Shanghai that the Chinese authorities in the central part of the country have arrested Bolshevist agents who. were found circulating propaganda. Previously, as has been mentio…
  6. The North-China HeraldChinese Libel ActionThe hearing of the action for alleged libel brought by the Commercial Press, Ld., against the Chung Hua Book Ca., Ld., was continued on Tuesday at the Mixed Court before Messrs. Grant Jones and Yui and occupied the whole…
  7. The North-China HeraldChina Mail StrIt was reported as early as 10.30 on Tuesday morning, as the result of a wireless message irom one of the passengers on board to a relation in Shanghai, that the China Mail str. China, on her voyage from Nagasaki to Shan…
  8. The North-China HeraldThe Student UproarA development in China closely wrapped up with the country's failure at Versailles to secure the restoration of the German rights in Shantung to China, was the student movement. It is a fact to be noticed with a certain …
  9. The North-China HeraldThe Anking ScandalWe received a visit yesterday afternoon from Major-General Huang Tao, one of the Anhui delegates who has been sent down here by the Tuchun to contradict the report of the attack by soldiers on the sericultural school gir…
  10. The North-China HeraldA New CoinWith the tael at eight shillings and the dollar, roughly, at six, the case for a standard unit, with a name as individual as dollar, but of only half the value becomes stronger han ever. It cannot be too often insisted t…
  11. From Reuters · North-China HeraldThe Price of WoolLondon Jan. 19. The question of wool profiteering continues to excite the greatest! interest. The Profiteering Committralia and New Zealand at profits running into many millions sterling. He said that the Government was …
  12. The North-China HeraldThe American Loan_Early in November the flotation of a loan by the Pacific Development Ca. became bruited about and it subsequently appeared that the above-named company had signed an agreement with the Chinese Government for a loan of G…
  13. The North-China HeraldThe Chinese Peace delegate MrC. T. Wang returned here from Canton yesterday morning. He called on the Governor and had luncheon with Sir Robert Ho-tung. Speaking at a dinner given in his honour by the Chinese Chamber. of Commerce Mr. Wang said that …
  14. The North-China HeraldU. S. Worker from SiberiaAn interesting personage is passing through Shanghai, Major Paul Martin, of the Medical Heserve Corps, U. S. Army, who has beea acting as consulting surgeon to the Siberian Commission of the Amen-can Red Cross. Major Mar…
  15. The North-China HeraldMoney and High PricesBefore a well attended meeting of the members of the Union Church Literary and Social guild on Wednesday in the Union Church Hall, Mr. D. B._Verney opened a discussion on " Money and High Prices" by a particularly intere…
  16. The North-China HeraldThe Thrift SystemTsing-wei, founder of the Societe Franco-Chinoise d'Education Paris—Shanghai, gave a very interesting lecture at_the World's Chinese Students' Federation on the subject of "Chinese Students in France." The lecture hall w…
  17. The North-China HeraldA Strong Claim on CharityOut of the commonplace of 2 refugee gathering it is decidedly dificult to construct the picture of a maelstrom such as the Siberian. Modern dress does not lend anything of the picturesque to the show. In a different cent…
  18. The North-China HeraldTrade Marks ImitatedAn interesting case regarding the falsification of trade marks was opened at the Mixed Court last Friday before Messrs. Grant Jones and Yui. The charge is against Sze Ping-san, a shopkeeper of 839 Myburgh Road, and compl…
  19. The North-China HeraldThe Students Intervening From Oar Owa CorrespondentWuchang, Jan. 14. Your correspondent has been away for some days in North China and on his return found that the student body in this centre had for a time suspended their anti-Japanese campaign and had taken up the cudg…
  20. The North-China HeraldOpening of New Foreign Women's HomeThere was a large attendance of people at the opening of the new Foreign Women's Home last Friday afternoon. The new quarters have little that suggest a cottage, but the name is inherited from the former house in Tongsha…
  21. The North-China HeraldCrops in KueichowKueiyang, Jan. 2. New Year is being observed by all public offices and the schools, three or four days' holiday being granted, and many shops and houses have the flag out but business goes usual. Prices are still rising,…
  22. The North-China HeraldChina Will Not SignIn the meantime Peking saw the commencement of the agitation for the return of Kisochou which will be dealt with under a separate heading. During that month telegrams from all over China were sent to Peking urging that t…
  23. The North-China HeraldNew Year and No SilverJan. 16. As the end of the Chinese year draws near merchants and shopkeepers are getting anxious over the scarcity of silver. Although the exorbitant commission on money-changing is reduced the money lenders are chary of…
  24. The North-China HeraldBritish and Japanese Trade to ShanghaiThe import from Japan of the various lines scheduled shows that the Foochow incident has, as anticipated, given fresh impetus to the boycott of Japanese goods. With two exceptions, - viz., umbrellas which show an increas…
  25. From Reuters · North-China HeraldTientsin Libel ActionTientsin, Jan. 20. In the libel action brought by the "North China Star? against Mr. Rasmussen, editor of the '"Tientsin Evening News" (incorporating the "China Critic") the jury yesterday found "firstly that the defenda…
  26. The North-China HeraldThe whereabouts of Mr. WeiPeh, Chinese Consul at Irkutsk, is unknown, but Mr. Fan Chi-kuang. the Vice-Consul, has managed to escape safely from Irkutsk. the Japanese militarists have Proposed joint defensive measures against Russia, in virtue of …
  27. The North-China HeraldThe Middle EastThe fears of serious trouble impending in the Middle East reported in to-day's telegrams are fully justified by the recent course of events. The geography of this part of the world, between the Mediterranean, the Black S…
  28. The North-China HeraldThe Americans in SiberiaPeking, Jan. 16. The American Legation announces that the following statement was made public by the Depart ment of State in Washington on January 13 last: On December 8, 1919, the Japanese Ambassador at Washington, purs…
  29. The North-China HeraldThe Home You Live inA Pre-War Picture and a Post From Our London Correspondent, What a change is here. The ambition of every woman six or seven years ago was to live in as big and imposing a house as her husband's income would allow her to …
  30. The North-China HeraldThe Late Mr. Fe. W. GodfreyA Tribute from Bench And Bar In H.M. Supreme Court on Monday, on the occasion of his Honour Judge Sir Havilland de Saus-mare taking his seat for the first time since his return from Hong. kong, his Lordship made special …
  31. The North-China HeraldChina and the League of NationsThe One Road to National Unity From" Correspondent, There is no doubt in the writer's mind that China, and all who wish her well, will ardently espouse the League of Nations movement and the formation of a World Council.…
  32. The North-China HeraldInteresting U. S. Court DecisionAn interesting ruling was given by the United States Court for China on Saturday when His Honour Judge C. S. Lobingier, found that oral wills are invalid except only in the case of those made by soldiers on Service and s…
  33. The North-China HeraldA Tea Trade PioneerIt is refreshing in these days when so much is being done persuade the Chinese to bring their industrial methods into line with European standards and more than a little is being done in the shape of Sino-Foreign ce-oper…
  34. The North-China HeraldA Coolie from FranceA particularly distressing' story was recounted at the Mixed Court before Messrs. Grant Jones and Yui on Wednesday when an unem-proved Whinese, Kau Tuli-sung was charged with being concerned a the larceny of a sum of $87…
  35. The North-China HeraldThe French PresidentSaturday's telegrams told us that M. Clemenceau was not at all anxious to stand for the Presidency and that he only did so at the urgent wish of his friends, Nur Paris correspondent's letter to-day gives a charming accou…
  36. The North-China HeraldThe Second ConferenceMatters remained in a state of flux until June 5, when the Allied Ministers presented an aide memoirs to the Chinese Government emphasizing the necessity for an early resumption of the Peace Conference. Despite repeated …
  37. The North-China HeraldThe Charge of Opium Larceny"The adjourned hearing of the case in which Dong Sz-hai and six other Chinese are charged ing concerned together with one European, J. Allen, in the larceny of a quantity of opium from a shop in Tientsin Road, was again …
  38. The North-China HeraldWay Nov Domestic Service?If girls who have been freed from war service are not satisfied with the conditions under which they work as waitresses, why do they not take up domestic service where conditions are so much improved? Barause domestic se…
  39. The North-China HeraldThe League of NationsIts Organization and Its Aims (Contributed.) The first meeting of the Executive Council ut the League of Nations took place on the moming of friday, January 2é, at tte Mimstry of Foreign Affairs, in Paris, M. Leon Bourge…
  40. The North-China HeraldThe Reverse at KutThe telegram to-day containing the mews of General Townshend's resignation from the Army brings to light another of the unexplained things of the war. If we remember aright General Townshend made his advance to Ctesiphon…

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