Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1924, Page 22

EVERY RAIL RULE BROKENBY CHINESE Armies Run Trains Regard- endless flood, not an accident of any sort was recorded. At one point on the line the writer saw flve trains coupled together, making a single train a mile and a half long, carrying 4,000 men and countless draft animals. Five colonels who commanded the five trains, he was told, disputed as to whose train was to have precedence. They com- promised by combining and all mov- ing as a single train. Orange-colored tents were riggea over the open cars. as unconcernedly as though ia thelr native surroundings. “On September 21 a train of 83 -II. which come through from Nanyuan aviation fleld outside P.- king, reached Peitaiho, Although the rallway people tried to from proceeding to the the h to substitute a light one—the mille tary chiefs were in too great a hurry to wait and ran the heavy machine over a bridge which, acrording to vy locomotive—they wanted | h stood unmoved and never turned & fsh-plate.” A feature of the first alr rald over Shanhaikwan, the writer continued, was the great height, from 8,000 to 10,000 feet, at which the smaller ma- ohines flew. A larger plane, which appeared to be a scout, was said to observer Marshal effect. Experts estimated the proj. tiles at 16 pounds. The explosions " C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, .1924. brought Into play against the enemy planes, e Asks Marriage Annulment. Suit for annulment of his marriage has been filed in the District Supreme Court by James F. Taylor, 20 years old. He says his wife, Margaret, arated from him immediately ‘at thelr marriage, following an elop: ment about one year and .went EVIDENCE MAY START TODAY IN FORBES CASE — Attorney for Defense Ready to Re- sume Opening Statement in Chicago Trial By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 28.—Attorneys today in the trial on charges of de- frauding the Government on veterans' hospitalization contracts. A start on prosecution testimony appeared prob- able for late today or early tomorrow. Government attorneys in opening charged Forbes, Thompson and three others planned to divide more than $1,000,000 of $17,000,000 authorized by Congress for building hospitals. —_— A biil is to be introduced in the PAYS $5,000,000 LOAN. Mexico Liquidates Advance on O3l ' © Taxes. MEXICO CITY, November 28.—An advance of $5,000,000 which the Hu. asteca Ol Company made to the gov ment on November 25, 152 against petroleum taxes has been liquidated, according to the .com- pany’s representative here. At intervals came cars loaded with camels and others full of eking carts, with their drivers.squatting on the shafts and smoking their long pipes engineering calculations ail over the world, should have collapsed; but in made holes in the soft soil 3 feet in circumference by 4 deep. On the fourth day after the first raid anti- aircraft guns arrived and were When he saw | for Col. Charles R. Forbes, former she déclined to | Veterans’ Bureau head, and John W. live with him, the husband tells the [ Thompson, St. Louls contractor, were court. ready to resume opening statements Polish Parllament which will have the support of all clergyman to pro- hibit low-necked, short-sleeved dresses which outline the figure. —_— It you need work, read the wan: columns of The Star. 20902249 this amasing war, which is breeding a new rallway technique, the bridge les§ of Precedents, But No Accidents Occur. Cerrespondence of the Assoclated Press. PEKING, October 15—China's gi- gantic gvar panorama, developed on a ecale comparable to nothing that has occurred in China since the Manchu invasion of 250 years ago, has been described by B. Lenox Simpson, pro- prietor of the Far Eastern Times, as he saw it from the Great Wall near Shanhaikwan. 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Today their place has been taken by the mneatly equipped infantrymen in gray, and over the mud parapets which must have been the resting the bowmen and their re- k of arrows now appear the zzles of 3-inch guns. “High up on the hillsides, right to the summit of the mountalns, run stone and brick watch towers where once gignal beacons were lighted at night, or smoke signals by day, to give the alarm. Now from these towers one sees after nightfall the winking of signal lamps, the code meskages being picked up and re- peated from tower to tower until they reach the sea. “The villages for miles around,” the relator continues, ‘“have been combed for able-bodied men of the peasant class for enforced service in the digging of trenches between tl mountains and the beach, a distan of 10 miles. As the number of trfoops increased, more and more villages were taken over for billeting and the luckless inhabitants driven out, re- rardless of their future welfare. Gullles and hollows were crowded with ponies and mules of the trans- port service, the carts being drawn up in squares much as the American ploneers used to assemble their wag- ons at night for protection against the Indians. ‘Women Flee Disaster. »m the early morning, trudging & the beac! he fleeing peasantry ed from the war zone to what ty was to be found far to the 3 and south, women and children mostly, mounted on diminutive don- keys or dragging themselves along In the last stages of exhaustion.” The mobilization accomplished {n a p to September 23 on Simpson de- the Although first in de- mmitted by trains being run with- out crew nd drawn revolvers tak- ing the ce of traffic regulations, they accepted the situation as it de- veloped and worked manfully to keep things movin Rolling <Xud. from every rallway north of the Yangtsze River was massed on the Tientsin-Shanhaikwan line. Double crews of six men were eventually placed on every locomo- tive. 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