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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12806, 30 May 1910, Page 1

""We will suppose," said a teacher to a small pupil, "that your father decided to have a day's holiday -yid visit the seaside. What would he have to do before ho could take his seat in the train?" Without a moment's thought the youngster replied, "Pawn his tools!" A telegram from Kai-yuen-fu to tho "New York Herald" reports that sixty persons wore killed and many moro injured as the result of a collision between tlic military and farmers in tho Shansi province, arising out of tho drastic measures taken by the Chinese, Government to prevent the recultivation of opium.- Ignoring the official interdict, the farmers in four districts planted poppies, but the whole of tlio crops were uprooted by order of tho magistrates immediately thoy appeared above the ground. This led to riot, and tho magistrate was made prisoner in his yamen by the farmors. • Troops j sent' from the provincial capital sue- ■ cc-oded in rescuing him, but only after several hours and after a pitched battle. Professor Barraclough, of Sydnr<y University, recently arrived in Sydney after a holiday of seven months, a part |of which ho employed in making a ' study of aeroplanes, whilst tho rest was spent in the East, Nothing had struck the professor So much as tlio extraordinary case of travelling through China in those days. "Tho regular route to London from the East is through Siberia nowadays," lie said "Business men, commercial travellers, Civil Service* officials, do not travel to I England from the East- by sea— it takes too long. The regular express I through route is across Siberia. Tlio express steamer leaver. Shanghai .every ! ways — the following morning, and aro 1 Sunday morning early for Dany. It gets there Monday evening. You take the train— the South Manchurian railin London in 14J days. r i . . — . — .

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