Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1929, Page 46

14 CHINKIANG FAILS - TOFULFLL HOPES Surrender of Concession by British Marks End of Fond Expectations. “News of Great Britain's surrender of the Chinkiang foreign concession to China marks the end of a fond hope,” says a bulletin from the National Geo- graphic Society. “Sixty-eight years ago the British Saw in Chinkiang the seed of a great Chinese port. Its site, at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze, seemed the natural clearing station of the principal east-west and north-south waterways of China. Chinkiang, 156 miles up river from Shanghai and 60 miles down river from Nanking, just| had to grow. But it didn't. “The year the United States was| fighting the first battle of Bull Run Admiral Sir James Hope, then engaged | in opening the Yangtze to foreign trade, | sailed his fleet into the channel behind | Golden Island, near Chinkiang, and anchored. Fields of peanuts and corn new thrive where his anchors sank in | soft mud. Soon after the British ar- rived to establish a foreign concession the river deserted the pagoda-crowned, temple-girt green island hill and left it stranded on shore. “Having deserted Golden Island. the ‘Yangtze began to ease out of reach of Chinkiang itself. Travelers visiting the city in the Winter season walk along ths bund (quay) and view a dismal | sight. A sea of mud instead of a river | of water stretches before the eye. Scores of junks, their masts careening crazily, | lie in the mud like a herd of giant beasts bogged down in a prehistoric swamp. Yangtze Coils in New Curves. “The Yangtze and the Grand Canal | have both failed Chinkiang. Half the | population, and now the British, have abandoned the ancient city. Like the Mississippi, the Yangtze colls in new curves. For many years the river's| curve at Chinkianag has swung toward | the opposite north shore, toward Yang- | chow, the city that Marco Polo governed for three years. On Yangchow flats, where hunters shoot snipe one year, the Yangtze runs 75 feet deep the next. In 60 years the Yangtze ‘dragon’ will | coil back to Chinkiang's bund, so say | the engineers. o | “The Grand Canal. has served Chinkiang for 1,300 years. Its route runs from Shanghai to Chinkiang, then across the Yangtze to Yangchow ana north to Tientsin, a 900-mile water- way. Twenty years ago the building of the Tientsin-Pukow Railroad paralle: to the north-south route of the Grana Canal introduced a competitor that ; : THE SUNDAY - STAR. Street Car Theft Tried Second Time Jails Man 12 Days By the Associated Press. GREAT FALLS, Mont., No- vember 30.—When Robert Sloan, 21, took one street car from the car barns, it was not sp serious, but when he returned for his sec- ond car, he plainly showed intent to do wrong, a police magistrate decided. It seems Sloan took one car and parked it on a siding a short distance from the car barns. ‘Then, deciding a train would be more _interesting than a single car, Sloan returned for a second and was apprehended by a watch- man. Sloan has 11 more days to go on his 12-day senience. He told the judge he was unaware he could operate a street car, and. furthermore, he did not recall stealing the car. on board, Between Loyang, on the Yellow River, and Yangchow, on the Yangtze, stood 40 Grand Canal pal- aces, where the Emperor, his officials, ladies and attendants stayed for the 40 nights of their triumphal progress. On beard the royal junks the court reveled and feasted with an extrava- gance that vied with scenes aboard Caligula’s barges on Lake Nemi.” POWER CHANGE SOUGHT. LONDON, November 30 (4).—A gov- ernmental inquiry will soon be made into the right of the Church of England | to send a man to prison for contempt | of a religious court. | A committee will attempt to have the law changed so that the church| can get redress in civil courts, | J. H. Stevens bought some land in| 1916 which required him, under an old deed, to keep in repair the chancel of | the parish church of Hauxton, near| Cambridge. He declined to pay for some repairs and was sent to prison for eight days for contempt of the con- sistory court. | Itched and Burned. Could Not Sleep. Cuticura Healed. “Eczema broke out in pimples and little sore eruptions and spread all over my arms. It itched and By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 30.—The wages of sin, as the case of the brothers Feld- | Self. Police had to tell Mrs. Feldstein. stein so tragically illustrates, is death. It was for Milton Feldstein: and the sin for which he paid with his life was | the other. his brother's—Lester’s. himself yesterday because he could not bear to tell his mother that his brother was in jail for selling jewelry that did not _belong to him. “I'm in jail," “You know, some of that jewelry we got | on credit for our store—the store father left us two years ago——; well, I needed money, so I pawned it. I meant to pay Milton shot ugustine. The Best Winter Golf on the Picturesque ST. AUGUSTINE LINKS The Course Most Favored By the Greatest Golfers THE CLIMATE IS SUBLIME ... the Golf Ideal . . . Wonderful Grass Greens .. . Course Always in Splendid Condition « . . Expert Instruction by Johnny Far- rell, 1928, National Open Champion ... SPEND YOUR WINTER VACATION in a Resort Offering Old World Charm and New World Gayety ... SWIMMING, TENNIS and Other Diver- sions ... Everything to Ensure a Pleasur. able Stay ... for a Week, or a Fortnight, or for the Entire Winter . . . Hotel Ac- commodations Unexcelled at the Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar and the Cordova . . . Also at the other famous WASHINGTON. MAN KILLS SELF RATHER THAN TELL MOTHER OF JAILED KIN Neither Brother Able to Inform Sick Parent of Arrest! of One for Pawning Jewelry. know, and I—well, T just can't tell her.” | Neither could Milton. He shot him- There was nothing this mother could | do about onesson, but ill though she was, she began today the battle to save | | Alumnus Asset or Liability Argued NEW YORK, November 30 (&)— Two students of Dartmouth differ as | to_ whether an alumnus is an_asset or Lester telephoned him. | a liability. Collier H. Young of Indian- | apolis and Edward Rhetts of Salem, Ind., debated at the interfraternity con- ference. Rhetts argued that an alumnus is an asset first of all in a financial it back, but now the people we bought |sense. Young said the visits of alumni | geously ornamented junks, banners | it from have had me arrested. Get to=- flying, sailing leisurely through the | gether $3,500 and I can redeem it. And, Grand Canal with the Chinese court | Milt, you tell mother. have a bad influence because of their habit of tap dancing and frequent She’s sick, you openings of bottles of gin. D, C., DECEMBER 1, 1929—PART TWO. e —— HAVE MUSIC 'IN YOUR HOME FOR XMAS WITHOUT PAYING ANY Charge The Standard ; J Carry Only 7k | All ; Models Cash A g b ; Ot Price [ ; The On : ’ # Famous These Popular “PHILCO” -y $119-50 { * Less Tubes Radios “MAJESTIC” Less Tubes § PHILCO MAJESTIC § $116:00 | e Radios $99.50 Tubes Flagler System hotels on the FLORIDA EAST COAST —the Roval Poinciana and Breakers at Palm Beachi the Ormond st Ormond Beach; the Casa Marina at Key West and the Long Key Fishing Camp. WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED booklet F1 giving complete information on rates and_accommo- dations at oll East Coast resorts. Make rescrvations with FLORIDA EAST COAST dealt a final blow to the town's hopes of prosperity. Pukow and Nanking, ou opposite sides of the Yangtze, wax fat on trade the railroad brings them. whiie Chinkiang, although it has a station on the line between Nanking anad!| Shanghai, starves for business. Still Has Walls; Hence a City. “Likd so many Chinese communi- tles, Chinkiang still is a walled city. ‘The British concession and some of the suburbs:lie outside the walls. sometimes burned, and when I scratched my arms they were worse. My clothing aggravated the break- ing out, and some nights I could not sleep on account of the irrita- tion. The trouble lasted about four- teen years. “'T sent for a free sample of Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment and after using it a few times the eczema began to get better. I purchased mor i three i i w::‘;;dp ‘;fl;b;‘;] hepin (';;:'«1) Hotel and Railway Companies Miss Dora Bouthillier. 304 Appo- 2 West 45th Street New York City ) ) naug Ave., Westcott R 1. | y § = Daily use of Cuticura Soap. Rocker Doll sisted by Cuticura Ointment. o . . . 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