New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1922, Page 15

\ Direct from tea garden to teapot LIPTON'S MONEY S SCARGE N PEKING, GHINA Royal Families and Manchu Nobles Destitute~Funds Lacking , . Peking, Jan. 25. (By Mail)-—~Mem- bers of the royal family and other Manchu nobles who are totally de- pendent upon the central government of the republic for their living allow- ances, are finding themseclves desti- tute of the necessities of life, due to the non-payment of their means of S ance, Lack of clothing and iffs is making their situation despegate and they are consequently clamoring for extra allowances which it is the custom tor them to receive at the time of the Chinese New Year. Auction Curios, A petition has been addressed to the president requesting that the ar- rears of pay due to the Imperial household and amounting to som $2,000,000 be remitted as ble with a view to relie s of the ro amily as well as of the Manchu officials connected with the household. t auctions of priceless curios in the possession of the representatives of the old regime | have been held with this same pur- pose in view. Imperial treasures which have always been the personal belongings of the empress of the Ching Dynasty have been sold to the highest bidder in order to relieve the pecuniary distress of the present day members of the dynasty. Teachers' Pay Due. Teachers in the eight government schools in Peking are also so far be- hind in the pay due them from the central government that they have again and again threatened to strike and have only been kept in offi by the repe d promises of the off s of the Ministry of Education that their arrears of salary would | soon be forthcoming. The approach : (hinese New Year has made chers’ situation desperate but r final demands brought forth the sircd check for $220,000, which represented at least part payment. When, however, these checks were presented at the bank for payment the bank refused to honor them, stating that the Ministry of Finance had no funds on hand to cover them. Checks Cancelled. Ivery attempt on the part of the teachers to cash their checks mot! with failure and on the eve of th(’l New Year they announced that unless | their checks were immediately honored or, th were paid in specie in some other they would re- E their positions in favor of those who could afford to hold them with- out pay. Scize Salt Revenue. Iiaval officers have taken the mat- the —————r—— .- FOX’S -:- Mon., Tues., Wed. “Broadway Peacock” BUSTER KEATON ter of delayed pay into their own hands and selzed the salt revenue in the Province Kiangsu In order to make up the arvears which the gov- ernment seemed unable to pay, Their action, they announcd, was caused by absolute necessity, they had not re- ceived any pay for seven months and they were only too willing to turn back what they had taken from the st revenue if their pay was forth- coming through regular channels, The military governor of Klangsu telegraphed the Central Government that he himself would seize $700,000 of salt revenue In order to pay the navy if the government found itself unable to cope with the situation. WAROONED SAILORS SAVED BY A MATCH Bit of Sulphwr Cause of Lost and Hall Starved Men Being Rescued 23 Honolulu, T. H, Feb, —(By Mail)—A lone match, saved carefully in a tincan to prevent it from be- coming wet was the instrument that resulted in the rescue of four of the five members of the Jayanese fishing vessel Ebisu Maru No. 1, after they had been marooned fiftcen days on a wind and stormswept coral in the South Seas, with no shelter, few clothes and little food or water, ac- cording to the story they told when they were brougit back to Honolulu aboard the Ebisu Maru No. 2 which had been sent to rescue them. The fifth member of the crew, M. Miyasaki the engineer, was washed away and drowned., IHis body was not recover- ed. reef ‘Wrecked in Storm The fishing craft left here last year for Neckar island, considerably sguth of Honolulu, and after unsuccessful s sailed farther south on January s later in a heavy storm she struck al reef off Sand island near French I'rigate shoals. Under the battering of the heavy scas, the sam- pan broke up almost immediately. A rude raft was formed from the timbers and Captain J. Yonemoku, with a rope around his waist, swam for a bar some distant away. He made the small piece of land and suc- s |ceeded in pulling the raft after him. Miyasaki was lost at this time. Match Lights Tire TFor the next fifteer. days the four men subsisted on birds they Kkilled and a little fresh water. With their lone match they kindled a fire from pieces of driftwood. This thin line of smoke sighted by the Ebisu Maru No. the rescuing vessel, which proceeded to the bar and took the four survivors aboard. A large part of the Japanese colony here was at the dock to greet the survivors when they landed from the Ebisu Maru No. 2. Farmers Education and Co-opera- tive Union of Kansas is the largest co-operative institution in the world. Runs For Congress Davis, great- of Benjamin the Democratic s in the Sec- rict. 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