Datren, Mar. 2.
'The lly aren of Dulren has been more than doubled and its population Imereased by over 10500 persons tone day only, namely March 13, The number of people is to-day thus over halt a\miliion, the apparent miracle being brought' about merely by the passing of a Munlelpal ordinance at 2 special session. of the Assembly. 'Tnis was the tual step necessary iegnlize the plan prepared some time ago by the 'Kwantong Bureau, 'With no. tremendous publicity and no civic. gasconades. the residential find "industrial small, townships and hamlets within ten Kilometres' of the Tokiwa Bridge, the trafic centre of the city, will' be quietly absorbed.
is interesting to note that the present site of Dairen had its frst 'Brush with Western elvitzation almost '77 years ago when 60 British men-ot= war and transports came sweeping in cast anchor in allen "Bay, now Known as Daren Bay, Following 1842 when Canton, Foo-enow, Amoy, Ningpo, Shanghai and other' ports were opened. to foreign trade friction occurred. between the Chinese. and. the foreigners "and. 1850 the. British ship" Arrow was adzed at Canton. The same year a French missionary wag murdered. alty In Kwang Protests. were lodged by France and England with the Canton authorities but no satlsfaction could be obtained. armed action by French and British ty was signed at Tlen-
The wholesale murder of sixty lepers in Young Kong, Kwangtung, was reported in information whicn Teached. the Council on Medical Mis: slons of the Chinese Medical Association.
'The report came in a brief. telegram sent here by a mission hospital th the south, in which the lepers had been' taken' care of. Tt was also oportod that the hospital hed been {aken caro of, Tt was also reported that the hospital hed been damaged.
The news of the murder followed earlier reports of the execution of Some lepers outside Canton recently the miliary authorities. The resile. action has aroused. the In-ignatian of "those concerned with welfare work for sufferers from this the, south, Immediately Matter the 'A. telegram was tel itched to receipt of the news, asking for more eralled' information. The subject will be discussed at the general con-Terence When steps to be taken ey the Association are expected to be decided.
"A. suggestion was made to send a protest. to General Chiang Kalhek 30 03, to bring the Generalissimo's mention to this. matter. Pending the arrival of further details of the execution, the Council on Medical Missions is not expected to take any action.
Hankow, Mar. 30.
HLJMS, Hira to-day stood by at Tayeh, a mining town midway between' here and Kiukiang, awaiting the release of a Chinese employee of the Han Yeh Ping Iron and Coal Company, Lid, a Sino-Japanese Aboard the gunboat was Sgt. Masalch{ Suzuld, of the local Japan~ ese Consular Police, who wes dispatched to the Yangtze port to in-Vestigate the incident. As soon as Sgt. Suzuki returns here, Mr. Yoshial Miura, Consul-General, wilt make representations to the Hupeh Pro vineial Government, On March 23, according to loca! Consular officials, Mr. Hsu Shih-pin, secretary of the Han Yeh Ping concern and concurrently secretary the Tayeh branch of the Kinkai Yusen Kaisha, was arrested by the Chinese police.' Simultaneously, ten other Chinese supervising the loading of tron ore aboard Japanese vessels were placed under arrest—Domel, Tur Yale-in-China Mission Changsha reports for the benefit of her China friends the death of Mrs. Brownell Gage of Sumeld, Connecti. cut, Mr. Gage was one of the pioneer missionaries in this part of China and with the passing of his wife, the mission lost an arden supporter.
Nanking, Mar. 29.
The Farmers Bank of China has Issued special loans totalling around '$30,000,000 to formers and. is continuing to push the agricultural rehabilitation programme, according to 'Mr. Hsu" Chi-chuang, general manager of the bank who" passed through here by plane en route to 'Hankow, 'Mr, Hsu has just completed a conference with Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance, in Shanghai regarding the future' farm relief work of the bank.
The Ministry of Finance originally ordered the Farmers Bank of China to appropriate a total of $70,200,000 for the farm rehabilitation program-1d, according to Mr. Hsu, the rapidly carrying out the ori-plan in. accordance with the Central Government's instructions Central News, terror of modern gas warfare was driven home to 2,000 "people who watched the concluding "event of the air defence manceuvres in Chungshan Park, Hankow, last week, when they witnessed Aiteen wild ogs die an agonizing death in a vell fof smoke released from four gas bombs thrown around them. The poignant demonstration was preceded by a speech on poison gas and {ts place in modern warfare, Nanking, Mar. 20. The bombardment and slaughter of the Spanish Government troops and people in and around Madrid by rebels were bitterly denounced at the Atst anniversary meeting of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association here yes (terday, Mr," Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, who presided over the meeting, was re-elected as chalrman of the Association, Mr, Chen Li-fu, a C.EC, member, snd Mr. Shao Li-tze, director of the Central Publicity Department, were elected Five others were chosen as on-orary chairmen of the association, they being Mr, Dimitri Bogomoloit, Soviet Ambassador 10 China, now in Moscow, Gen, Feng Yushslang, Vice-Chairman of the Military 'Affairs Commission, Mr. Vu Yusjen, Presle dent of the' Control Yuan, Dr, W. W. Yen, former Chinese Ambassador Soviet Russia, and Dr, Tsai. Yuai el, director of the Academia Sinica.
The meeting also decided to give assistance to Chinese who desire to fluely of to travel in Russla—Central Tue "National Government has Feleased a portion of the $2,000,000 sanctioned by the 3rd plenary session of the Sth Central Executive Com: mittee for famine relief In Szechuen, Three Gunboate Lost When Admfral Hope sailed with a small squadron from Hongkong to Taku for a ratifeation of the treaty 1050 the Peiho was blocked with timber and shell fire was exchanged in which the British Jost. three gunboats and 340 casualties, It was! to wait for the arrival of French is then that the British ships sailed to and anchored in the splendid natural harbour of Dairen, When the French vessels arrived. they we determined on. adequate reprisals, The British troops and st ashore and opened up a depot there, nding the people friendly, though there was considerable difficulty in talking to them og the interpreters knew almost nothing of the Chinese dialects except the Cantonese, By the middle of 1060 the French had arrived full force, On July 26 the British. ships weighed anchor from Talien Bay, being joined on the way to Tangku by the French and a contingent from Chefoo, They cast. anchor off Tangku on August 1.
'The contingents carried all before them, taking Tientsin and Peking, after' which the Russian Minister Ignatieff came on the scene as! mediator and Lord Elgin, the British Minister concluded a second pact on October 24, Early In November the combined troops sailed away leaving small garrison in Tientsin, 'Talien or Dairen Bay and the surrounding districts then swung. back again to their former uneventful life, not emerging until when Hung-chang selected Liushutun, directly across the bay from where Dairen now stands, a5 the' most strategic point on the peninsula and fortified it. Chingniwa (Dairen present) was thus left to stagnation, Jong line of winding betehes smeth ed in tall, rank weeds, Russia Takes Controt At the termination of the Si Japanese War (1804-5) the Lisotung Peninsula, including Dairen, was ceded to Japan but she returned it to China on the intervention of the "Three Powers," Then in 1806 Imperial Russia came into possession of Dairen and the surrounding regions, The Russians selected Dairen to be built Into a modern commercial port and construction of the harbour and the city was begun on a grand scale. Only a small portion of the plan had been completed when the Russo-'Japanese Way 1004-5 broke out. Under the Bortemouth Treaty Dany, wets Nunta cil tet of the Ec Bena went {oSdapnns on September i 00 ne
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