Chinese readers may be forgiven if they smile at the account of the elaborate precautions taken in New York to safeguard. tha delivery of $10,000,000 in gold from Valparaiso. Five armoured.cars, we! read, manned with armed guards, awaited the arrival of the gold at the quay and shepherded it through the streets to the bank. Contrast with this the casual manner in which blocks of silver are moved about Shanghai. Nothing is commoner than to see a couple of coolies "hee-hawing" along the street with two or three silver bars slung in a rope's end between them; and even at night it is usual for large quantities of silver to be moved from one bank to another under no better protection than that of a gang of common coolies. Yet, in nearly 20 years, we can only Fecall one attempt (made by motor car two or three years ago) to steal any of this treasure, Certainly: until recently, and it may be the case still, it also seems to be an tnwritten'law that, no matter what civil wars or revolutions might be taking place, the dollars for the financing of the silk crop in the Wasih district were tacitly allowed safe conduct. The present writer was told a year or two ago by a friend of long residence in Wi that he could only recall one at tempted theft of these dollars and that was by a Cantonese, who would certainly have had his head cut off but for the intervention of strong family influence. Since the. bes ginning of the wars in Kiangsu of the past 18 months, there have been many reports of Brigand activities in the Wusih district and it may be that the pleasant old custom of the silk business "lable has broken down, We ly hope not; but there alw ins the free movement of silver in Shanghai streets which are certainly not di The Lady Doth Protest The bulletins of the Tass News Agency, the official organ of the] d Union of Soviet Socialist. Republic: are seldom worth looking at news, but they sometimes contain some amusing propaganda, The Bolsheviks have begun to realize that they have lost a good deal of ground latterly in China, particularly over the C, EH. Ry and correspondent of the Tass has been, interviewing "local Soviet circles." With the following result fcr in order fo transfer responsibility and lay the fault at_another person's door. "As it is known the "Agreement. between the USS and China cone] [cluded on May 31, 1924, 1s an example Davey, Donel of an "equal Trealy." because the Gov Senient of, the Govt Union'
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Among. the 'Tarist treaties 20p-pesed to have been renounced we 0 not reali any' mention ofthe astern ltforal of Mavcheria blow fostered be hough the une is tained one of the most flagrantly dishonest pieces of ple macy. on tetards And" Chinas waiting "to have Mongolia Festored to her, as more than ence promised by the Soviet. As for the Agreement of May, 1924, "the eat "Soviet cines" earetutly ignore the fact that, the Chinese Nive never yet been able to bring Moscow's. representatives "to. the cqiference provided For, "which feould have omealdated the agree tment ina teat. "Why? Beers Hoscow got all the scope under the agreement that, he revered trid she was afraid that eny teen rue conference would hee reveal Cole weak points. The second paragraph of the Tacs statement When the facts against ict are remembered, mere Ssponring' about paliies cqualy fhovtte to the Chinese and' me U.S. SR. counts Sor Jitsle, Council Service of our recent article on Council 'A correspondent, writing apropos ection, urges that not only. should the selection of Councillors be lett the public, according to their salifications, "but that "similar watchfulness" should be. exercised over the choice of men for service in Council departments. Ie sayers= $90 ate backed by somebody When the usqusited applying for a sualiea anes ae fe atte are given a job frst in the same de!
fines those who "applied ste 'To ched all clit, a board causating the herds of iterene depone seine tua Contralied by "eked hcpaents trust be enllea "nieh ey geet the applicant ts Guslited to Sei! one iiehpal ata" ornate Shea {lam is rejected the' renner "nts Elven," 11 thet applicant is conldered being aaalined"his npptteation set "omen 8 number "Rea" Ne" 2 Fringed with the let of andigatee'ae the' Sfunieipa Gazette, where. 4e could tee shen' comes hie tirmr wed thera Deintmene nade in'rsiaow of anon tion received vas being not a "POSts Mair" between "the: ender ebrerate gEike Separtnent he ies fo San The style of the letter may be over= Tooked as the writer is not using own language. But the imply tion of favouritism in. the making of appointments cannot quite. pose Unchellenged. Tt is arield. com. Blaint, bY no. tress "peculiar Shanghaic If heard. oftener here than elsewhere, the smallness of the place may be' the reason, eatting both ways: for we are all much more aware of what other people are doing' than elsewhere and When a mani looking ier a Job, he has faire "ncquaiatances with' friends who may fave Jobs to giver The Jatter factor Ts ae old and ts wide as the world. "We do not say tant docs not ocensicnally tive' for complains. But conditions of work nowadays are so exacting that anybody in control of a business artment Ioks a candidate very closely before engaging however much he may be recom: mended. Also there fs wide endorse ment of the saying of "the self-made Chicago merchant to his son": "I€ you've noticed, the quickest to make an enemy, is to hive a Tue following candidates obtain= honours in the Matriculation Examinditions for the University of Hongkong held in December Inet ayes and: Matheme Public School for Boys and Private Star some define Elis Kadoorie Pabtic Schoo) hell, Leonard. Adron Thomas Hanbury. School 'THe work of a clever gang of thieves who robbed the Popular Silk Store of Hongkong of silks and jewellery worth $14,000 is reported by the "Hongkong Daily Prew." On Monday morning, January 25, the watchman found the show eases empty but thers was no sign of disorder except a hole in the floor above. The oper ing was only two fect by a foot and a half but a bannister rail was thrust through and used as a pole down which the robbers must have slid. The fact that this the only way out accounted for the fact that silk to the value of $5,000 was left -behind, Most of the stolen goods had been stocked especially for the visit of the str. Belgenland.
Sixcine ox playing of the national anthem of Soviet Russia is to be prohibited in Japan except on there occasions when the governments of Japan and Ri attack fate property ownership, and hold the principle of communism, The Soviet Embassy expressed no surprise when informed of. the police ban on singing of the Soviet Song and said that its profit fon an unofficial occasion pre: also in Russia itself. When the orchestra at a cinema theatre in Akasaka played daring an intermisicn the national anthem of Me influential member of the Mes Embassy was angered d that the sacred song of his own country was being played for amusement. Theatres have been nained against its repetition,
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