AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
SYSTEM OF “SQUEEZE.” Travellers who returned to Australia from the Hast on tin; Taiping were optimistic llial Hie disturbances in Canton would soon lizzie mil. Tim renewal of relations with Hongkong would he hastened by the Trowing stagnation. .Mr Hernard Jackson, managing director of the Overseas Trading Company, Sydney, spent three weeks in Tientsin, where I here was spasmodic lighting, due to Ihe struggles of political and military leaders to gain personal advantage. The whole of Northern China, said Mr Jackson, was affected by the system of '‘squeeze,” under which sol-' diers sold themselves to the highest bidder. In Tientsin the barbaric custom of beheading people in the streets still prevails, and .‘!0 were killed while Mr Jackson was there. After the execution the heads are carried through the streets on bamboos. On account of flic intermittent, lighting the railway service between 'Tientsin and t'ekin was very unreliable.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 23 April 1926, Page 8
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151AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 23 April 1926, Page 8
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