TO RETURN held for $60,000 ransom. By MOY Strenuoas efforts, $12,000 were The Guarantee of Peace and Taste, yiped ores 8 Serene raised and paid over to secure French Representative Decorat-Stability victim creates anxiety. ed: Imposing Ceremony
From Our Own Comssronsest pects who discover the. families seems that the new government The second item is taxation. Tt At 8 am, on Sunday, Deceriber 48, the Jules Michelet, Aagship of the French Fleet in the Far East, Thirty-four years ago, the people Feseth pgy Sag meng ing, Che" Dec. 2, and individuals of metns, ands entered Amoy harbour, the main, reason for this welcome visit ing the investiture of M. Fermand hostile to foreigners, because their Accord. with, registered property of this city thought "they" were] S82¥ for the powers that be, fs Roy, Consul for France and Senior Hupanese Prefect had told them loan" which is to be honoured for Consul, with the rank and cross of, be, With [his passing and the other later taxes or refunded when Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, Coming of a medical missionary, this cher ater taxes or refunded when This very impressive ceremony attitude changed to an easy-going (He government is securely, seated. took place at noon on Monday, folrance and oeasional end e Scant cook ied the December 19, in the grounds of the French Consulate inthe" Inter break in 1900, some lewd fellows of €70UPd. oF banked in Shanghai demonstration. ¢ Boxer out national Settlement of Kulangsu, the bases sort held hele nose and ort cee ager i mat FRENCH CONSUL HONOURED AT AMOY Naval and Military Parade Serstapare: yoseed oe the oped 85 that his return indicates increas- Amoy with Legion of Honour which tonk place recently, armed French troops landed at made throat-cutting gestures a8 the much loved for his own sake The Ceremony of the Investiture of the Freach Consul at At 11.30 axm.two detachments of 5 sere a lo hppne ESN ud rset and "marched "othe. Consulate, Ya Jearery sot stability and prospects of peace, alangau and. preced primary schools es ook 4, The sxpeielon of Crmmmmalate and nial can Ju Shanghai. With a score oF more! he expulsion of Communists and CIVIC DEVELOPMENT IN|LAMENTABLE STATE OF Po sac "aR syond a temporary refugee sojourn ist mas in Chinese Sty eliments of British troops, ing diies and with high sabots th, ornis absence of ant-Chratian CHUNGKING CHANGTEH rape the city, the rising generation for Ssontaneous Christmas celebration open square yrhich waa lowed by 35 years became enthusiastically X "hogpita, chocks ead eharehes Many Improvements EMfected a¢ the Mercy of Bedraggled and the Yeading' "vesdente of "Amoy, schools were insufficient, community Griese thes' made their owe Dro- attended en masse to witness the modernaed, and, as Government] ce entirely in the hands of pat Tyesinees Dull pre lechpas oth "Chinere and foreign, "who schools sprang up everywhere, with Chinese, they made thee own Pro. Uestowal of "this well" deserved face for Sok one] gri Rees en chenelig, ce 16. changth Honan, Dee e tue, print, arena a orelgners were urged tol caborate, With evergreen, ce. song. those. present were nine frag ver patlatiined—.a"tg elaborate. With evergreen back- From Ovx Own Couersroxnent Prox Ocu Own Connrsronnerr [honour a hoar per day, if no more, and ug white sun flags' waved from There are civie improvements of On December 1, the city was very Raval forces, members. of the Cone stoups of converts formed churches, Very possible opening. After several kinds going on at Chung- seriously stirred by romoure of the lar Body en loc, Admiral Liny aided often by the good creditable cards sung in changing king. Many of the streets have Getect of some of the Hunan soldiers Commander of Amoy and Change siders, chorus, appropriate services, were oom widened, and, with new shop who had been fighting north of the chow, the Commissioner of Foreign:
In the civi wars since 1911, up brief and' pointed, and then came fronts, make a fine show. The work city. "No one ceemeed to know Affairs and all" prominent local to January 1927, the safest place (ne inevitable stage play. To make was in progress before the evacua-|cxact'y who was the enemy, but and municipal officials and affeers, Ghris- one of the scenes realistic, a live tion at the end of March, and now /itis reported that it was Lo Tieping At noon Rear Admiral Stotz, 7 {in or near mission Sheep was brought on the platform, is practically complete. A very large|and Yang Sen's soldiers. The re- Commander of the French Naval compounds. However, the rising while the shepherds listened to the maloo, or horse road, is being con- port was that looting might take Forces in the Far East, with Cay tide of Nationalism of all shades Bobbed-hair peachy- structed to connect the Little River place and that the 85th Army would ain Devin, captain. of the Jul from deep red to mild pink, again Checked singles sing from canvas (the Chialing Mo) with the Yangtze. leave the city. New soldiers—er, Michelet, and Captain Chomereaue persuaded the youth from six to] Clouds. The poor sheep undertook a [t will be 40 ft. wide, and the land rather, the defeated soldiers of the Lamotte, Chief of Staff, arrived, sixteen years (net so, many older) Staccato on each side for a depth of 100 ft. 35th Army—have been pouring into Feceived' the general salute and to take up the favourite slogans of ece"t® Is being offered for sale, Apparent-this city for several days and some inspected the detachments down with this that, and the other." Much f0, the merriment of Us ly the land required for the oad of these poor creatures wore sent Sembled.
Again, the missionaries retired after sq other good things. An appro- was forcibly appropriated, without off as scon ax they landed, to fight, Services gf M, Roy side White furs, tall hat, and Immense the chance of buying it back, and. Wounded soldiers have been brought tion ax published in' the "Journal he Nanking incident in March] Mri "Zatte lau appeared In compensation, but the owners have /in the North against Vang. Sen The Admiral then read the cltae writer has kept in close whiskers. Ie told. the crowd that profiting by the subsequent rise into the military hospital here for which mentioned that Mf, the sane, sober, and—substantial rormeriy he used reindscr in foreign value which is expected to develop. treatment, The situation seems to Rey had faithfully served the Rov citizens by short visits at first and} lands, but now, as there were s0 Much of the route is through ground, be katier now, bot ath ly uncertain, public for 23 yours, of which 18 had Intely in longer trips. A further! many people in China, he had to hitherto used for burial purposes, News came to-day that Wuhan and een spent in. the Far East and change of attitude is emerging. It] {ave Iy'an aeroplane, and thousands of graves ave being Nanking mow are at peace, and it{ which were of exceptional service in g fort of senaitivencss, Ferhaps the mott impressive was removed, In some of the. eller e hoped" that this wil "bring gri Yunnan io 1628," te then oon.
Why are the foreigners 801 one appearance of five boy students graves, valuable curios are being! the hcailties in the north to a/Merred on him the rank of Chevalier slow to come back and live among! each with a pennant of red, yellow, dug uj close, of the Legion d'Honneur on behalf of wat Do you no longer trust 37 Sige, "ack and white, cenibining Phere is a scheme in progress for Ancther reason for fear was the} the President of the French Roe We who live hero are not ferocious-|¢9 proclaim:—Wo are the five races bunding the river frontages, and demand of the 36th Army. for public. This ceremony took, pla Wo wil not do you "harm" Act China, now uniting under one constructing pontoons, whilst a $40,000 at once to equip and feed With troops at the "present Te) apologetic tone also is to be noteds nag. Christmas is ours to share wireless ion, using the short them. This money was very slow in fanfare and the Marscillaiso which such asi—"Of course, our govern: goodwill with. all the rest of the wave aystem, is under way. This i coming in nnd the miliary threa- followed were very impressive rent is not yet securely adjusted} World." Tp. "the observer,—the to be eapabic of communicating with tened that, st it waa not forth- After "the ceremony an ofelal but la it not always so with Re- humanism "of the Chinese _{s any station in China, and receiving comic, they reception vina held in the French publics? Did your English, Ameti- manifested by their adopting, messages from any "part of the sible for the consequences. Conrulate where, congratulations: can and French people come into] adapting, and absorbing whatever world. The plant already 4s here, money bason paid and this source were showered upon M., Mie, and liberty, equality and power ae they happen to like from the West, and it is to be in operation, accord- of fear has been stopped, at least] Mile, Roy. The exceptionally: excenscs? We Chineae are suering jut characteratically making it their ing to preseat plans, within forty for the present. ft would be hard lend of the Jules Michelet played now more than you foreigners from very own, It wad sizniteant tol days, A returned student. from to imagine @ more bedraggled aet sections daring' the reception, the misdirected efforts of UT OWN hear a bystander remark:—"Chrs- England, Mr. Li, ix in charge of the of mon than the sth Army next WARN was an unqualified suc con Chinese. Wait, with ws Yor better tainty haw now become a department work, and the operators are Cantons occupying "Changich and. all the 10 the afternoon M, and Mme, times to come' of the Chinese local structure" ey, with ood experience in wirelen wns been here and Changaba Of entertained the whale foreign focal Progress ravelling Marine ther parts of China, The proclamations put out that immunity to a the danaan cee inal The A.P. Cis Coing very well in the army was not to occupy any WREM the band team attended with In conversation with a local eduea- Tt i high time for the railway doing very well in the army was not to occupy any Treat credit to themeeives and plane for, this question was squarely and steamship managers to do am frere ign big demand: foreign buildings, such os howpials e"t0 the commun put:—"¥ou have been here in and thing more to lmprive the comfort i ime em got, tre neha and residence, creer rhe day lowed With an oficial out among us for more than 30 of patrons, at slight cost, by enfore- riaaie of November, which promptly in no case private residences, has] auer on bourd the Jules Michelet, Do, you not see. signs, of] ing a few, decencies, Dr. Sum Yat erg sold out, and other' cargoes een entirely ignored. Their' own Next morning the Jules, Michelet nnd hot only of change, bat sen takes his flow Chinese to tank WePe old out, and, other cargoes been entirely ignored. Their Own! way miating from her berth, having of, improvement?" Some of the in he sixth lecture on this Dein Coogi since then. The Standard desire, to peep them out. The Bren tt £08 Hongkong. following tema competed an aft ting " Coverament fil at 8] Git Company is eat of baines fr Ustean Honptal here, which vas—=——=——a—Hall, Customs House, Norma, Wigh, ed:—"Foots and foreigners travel) Oe Cees te date' Troprincil stcinped'ef ies equipment rad pow CORNERING BEANS IN and many, Primary Schools, new frat class, a few sensible, people} Chintce merchants are in' hdg, i being wed as a vlltary hospital, MANCHURIA pyic: Conrh seme " a - owing to the demands made on them Sic: and wounded are huddled into lectvic, telephone, post office, silk) third excepting coolies and cement for funds, and there is much. the building on straw strewn on the a features, cloth factories, "branch folk in the fourth. If anyone wishes for fonds, Es. ore and there whose condition ts 13,000 Carloads Purchased by: the Palas facies radiereeiven cie one respec he has only 2 tala 8 Hike tenement of the Church, wharf Coner™uent with Pengplao Contracts already are signed to] single trip in Yeveraboiy's, coach" "Tungten, which way detained Hy|s title school waa being Tu, ud Mukden, Dec. 29. Femove the ancient walls and. con- That one chapter is worth the price Re al chiar The pial Gaara a struct a macadatlized roadway of the "San Min Chu I" in tne the Ankuochun authorities, was ware ie bean market of South Man-cee saponin pre moony fined "$10,000 for. having in his! Me. Rose, of Atahold & Ca, a churia is being success(ully corer: {o the. railway station and' Grand possession' Communistic. literature, German business tan and a Spanish ed by the provincial - Government te the rattway, staon ae Military Matters eae aaccalee ans! eeet are the. only" foreigners] through the agent of the Bank of em" he brary of a returned dent here. 'The attitude of the the Three Eastern Provinces, who, In conversation with an officer the cee et nelieres people la mech better then a few making their purchase' ta, Fong recently promoted for his share in jonalists have more anxiety student, I saw the complete works (Fo"Tocoat campaign against Stah- fmortha'nge, and many are aniing pla) of which they: have an' Communists and factions of Emanuel Kant in German in 16) rang de came out that the best Robt-lin their own ranks than of the when the foreigners are coming imited supply, "can afford to lace of honour. In the home of 2 ing men of Sun Chuan-fana's armies Northern armies under Chang Tso- back to live. The business of the outbid sil other buyers. 'More than merchant prines, there it" Brant have been dilled, wourdet, oF lin. city has teen badly' disrupted by 12,000 carcoade have already been plane that would attract the eve, if) captured, so that he haa no large In concluding, he express-ed con- lack of communications with Han- bought and are being stored the fingers, of 8 Paderewskl.|cormber of effectives. Also, that fidence that the now overwhelming Kow for the past two or three Kangebuling and Kalyuan—Weuter, the guest room of the surviving Chang. Chung-chang has' few numbers on the Nationalist side weeks. All launch services, also]
in, the aged scholar (now oldiers who are wiling to fet would. compel the militarnts. to have been stopped "by the eom- [they did not make a move to help. aire P race The Nationalist losses have been withdraw into Manchuria. When mandeering of the boats for the The Revs. C, I, Deerr and T..W. ill pass, heavy, but the capture of Hsuchowfa asked what reward he expected to transportation of troops. A tele- Mitchell are making a visit to the now prevails cannot hold the best hat encouraged them to hold that get after the war is. over, he gram was received demanding that conferences with the minds of our people." A. labour point, 20 that Feng Ya-hsiane's replicd:—"T expect to retire from all the launches resume operations of the. Presbyterian ten, aecustoried to the cold of the the military and Join the civil ser-lat once, with a promise of protection Mission, There seems to be a contractor called to say that plenty ontraclor called to say that plcn'y North, can carry of to a finish. vice ina new and united China." {rom Changsha. Some boats are desire on the part of many that the workmen could nos be ton: He fully expects the Nate: THe spoke rezretfally of a youth fat running, Due one that arrived to- schools should prepare to open and ager and wiling to works if WOTE ye in Peking inside of three months, Southern General. Killed in battle,|day reported that it was fired on many are anxious that the hospital lao veer cree Aa He also said that the famous only twenty-one years of.age.. It|south of Yuankiang and bandits/a!s should open again. Dr.
Dark Shadows Whampoa Military Academy, near|may be remarked in this connection took away at least two thousand Pao is holding a daily clinic in the 'Two sinister clouds hang over this Canton, which was practically that protracted war experience and dullers worth of the passengers' out-patient "department, of " the and probably many other sections of destroyed, i to be removed to the hideous aftermath of baltic are belongings, whilst four were killed Presbsterian Hospital, which so far Ghina," First there are the robher- Hangchow, in Chekiang province taking the swagger out of many and one wounded. There were some has not been commandeered by the Kidnapper bands. "A few days ago, He remarked, rather sadly, that the would: be Chinese Napoleons, armed soldiers on the launch, but military, rf
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