The Archive · 1932

Hongkong, Dee. 14

Strange and almost incredible ad.

On Tuesday I returned to Langfang and directly we had crossed ventures were narrated by a Malay; tera that he" eu "pul to pressmen who interviewed him the river—again 1 was walking yin, a local hospital to-day. ahead of my cart, this time say 100 oad was the high road from Yung-

ing ina plantation. in Pahang, 'The man said that he wan workyards—I met a' band of about a [dozen' bandits with five captives, hing to the railway at Langfang, Mate int Beltah Malaya, whel_& the time am. three men, one woman, and a child Tea no longer discredit the hurricane, suddenly sprang. up. and lof two years or so. I pasted within tales which have been poured into carried him through the air for a yard or to of them all." The [considerable distance, optives were—blindfolded, the bandits heavily armed. (1 counted bandits in Yungeh'ing district, ten rifles and noticed at least two within 50 miles of Peking and Tien-ied [revolvers cent tact coa The tobe caltivinted by the relatives Responsible" for "the" design and the persona concerned. of leased {o other farmers whom the owners "Pho unusually high floods of last Jean trust. The proceeds of the land summer caused. widespread havoc shall go (0 the legal owners, Tees 20 slong the course of the Der cents which shall go to the tone At taiyuanfu, the water hrough the embankment which rans ater hok nts us a yeward The taxon the parah Hel wit the west wall of the ind shall be paid by the owners: Ownership of land shall cease Eiy- and flooded the area. between upon the death. of the owner and the south vail andthe moter rosd shall then ass t0 other farmers: of from eight to. 10 Farmers' can. apply, for. waste #8 putting the ow: paper mill in lands for cultivation and such Tangs the vicinity out of commission, and shall be owned by: those' who crile making it thpossibe to use the main vote them: routh gate for a considerable bevied.

No'mortgage or sale of lands shall Gonditlons were so bad property was be recognised suffering to such an extent that it Land Distribution Committee dodded to dry this. atea,_ and shall be formed (0 take care of the this sar done by means of a tem istribation work and shall be: dise porary installation of tator-driven ssived upon the completion of the centrifugal pumps, the, discharge Song carried bya canal formerly used. for igation purposes into the river some distance south of the

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