Tenghsien has just had three {visitors worthy of note. "The first jas the Governor of Shantung. He came for a military review and no doubt was pleased, for the soldiers made a good showing. They had prepared a special drill ground with a'stand for the Governor and plenty of room for themselves and the horses, and with their flags and clean uniforms looked in every Way military.
The Governor held a public court where any one who had a grievance could see him without charge. The Gnughter-in-law ofthe most, prominent citizen and one of the wealthiest. called upon him.
She had been divorced several years ago by the son and took thi th opportu y to seck justice for her-te The Governor asked her why she {ad waited all this ("She replied she had waited for a rman of good judgment and. wisdom find now she had found. him. No tone is. proof against tattery, so it srorked./ The magistrate was ordered to consider carefully her ease, he is doing and. whether the ill: treated wife gets a reward of not she is getting' a revenge in secing iter husband's family Rose some of tue' mone} The second visitor was a son of the ity. He Toft here many" Years [so in tage and a beggar, wih nach a'strong desire for gambling. tha when his mother died wand he had egged here and there for money to tury her, on returning home. he alced ital and lost.
He left for the cities south of the Yangtze and in some way or other reached the state of olfilaldom. He Tins Jast completed "the largest residence in "Shuntung "south of Teinan—bullt incide the walla. of Tenghsien—costing several tens of thousands of dolsrs.
came Were to marr his son to a Tenghsien the grand daughter of a Hanlin, after which the house was closed." And thus it twalts hig retirement with his Southern wives who he fears will not Sechanpy with Ten than a Dance, "The ted is visitor just out from the U.S.A, the dating kind who get photograph at any price. climbed the pagoda, got out on the Jedge and took' continuous Photograph of the. city requiring. three Sxporures to complete it. "This ts the first time such a feat has been accomplished in this part of China The steps were almost impossible to climb, 40 he had to tie the camera to his belt for. both. hands were necessary to ascend the worn stones.
Moscow, Dee, 18, M, Jos:
Ju Stalin to-day signed a decree, substantially increasing 08 from January 1, 193 a 4, the pay-roll of Soviet troops stationed in the Far East, Privates will receive an Increase of 80 per cent, and ofiors 3 per cent... The wages of civilian workmen. will likewise be raised considerably, heavy labour will, get 30 per cent. more than before; fisher men 20 per cent.; and peasants, both ollectives and independent, will be freed entirely from taxation, The reason given officially is that migration towards Eastern Siberia and. the Pacific coast has assumed new settlers in reality, it that the Soviet Government, wante to increase the backing of the Red
in ease of an armed conflict wit Army and to assure its, food-supply Japan—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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