Eviction in Canton of Descendants of Conquerors of Three Centuries Ago Chinese Being Steadily Ousted from Employ in Defiance of Agreement Fae A Ciantes Cousesrestat Feb, Bonn w Ka Hong Lalo, just been served with notices of eviction from their home for failure to pay the epicial war tax of $25 por rheng. for 100 Chinese square fect of Tan the Kuomintang regime in ton before February J, as ordered Most of the Manchus involved are Aescendants of persons who had helped the Ching Dynasty to reduce the Cantonese into submission to the Manchurian Emperor more than, three centuries ago. Upon the troops of the Chinese Banner ott! ing down in they were ment by the Ching Imperial every ex-service man. Since ishment of the" Republic of 1812, the pension to each household, after beings reduced to abet cents a month for the first few years, was forgotten altogether by Subsequent government administra:
Harbin, Bob. 10, fave somewhat surprised 4 statistics royardingg the ihway employees on The total number on this year is given Tare Russia we. The Ad-
Hoadl Ortice out of this loys 1,543 of wont 140% sare Russians and only' 110. Chinese All these figures we wish to com-rare with those published the beinning of October, 12, when Ostroumotf and the old Russian nagament were ousted from the that date there 16745 railway servants in all 172 less than are at present. employed yet we find that out of this total number there were only" 10,833 Russiuns against the 11,250 em= ployed on January Chinese instead of the ease at present that the new Russian management Dr. Sun Canton, not only the ion to tie Marchus hay been forgotten, but also the lands they have been rusted only. list published and served with the notice to move, and more homes of the Bannermen will meet the same fat unless the $25 Ber chev tax bs forthcoming in dt lone. "As many families possess more than 10 chewy Sinn employees by 418 but dee the number of Chinese by 46.
The Mukden Agreement These figures come as a surprise to many for they are not in ce with the Mukden Ass went by Marshal Ching Karakhan, the which actually ner ease "of the of Chinese railway ems Unless a new front.
Chinese representatives the Railway Committee Board the present Russian finaneiat wit amen tw meet the war demands of the Bolsh Bannermen will only. hav intort that their one time 7 Hsuan Tung, hax met.the same fate and ix now living ax a refugee in the Japanese Legation in Peking. Before the Republic, most of the Bannermen in Canton ' were in the old army service or occupy minor official positions, but the change of government has thrown many out of employment, and the lot of many Manchus in the city today ix a miserable one. Many them are too old to adopt new an productive occupations,
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