Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1927 — Page 5

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SCENIC HANKOW WATCHED BY 40 ANCHOREDSHIPS Suffers From War, Evacuation, Trade LosseS; Future Is Bleak. Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of Gould's Hankow series. —United Press. BY RANDALL GOULD United Press Staff Correspondent HANKOW —Six hundred miles up the mighty Yangtze River lies Hankow, “the Chicago of China.” Green summer foliage lend the Bund a deceptive air of peace, but the underlying spirit at present is better expressed by some forty foreign warships lying at anchor in the stream. Hankow has been unmercifully battered and it is sore. The city has seen war, riot, evacuation, trade losses, financial turmoil. The past is a nightmare, the present uncertain, and the future bleak. Chinese Press Outspoken Trade has fallen off by half. Foreign consular officials predict further decrease. The money situation is chaotic. Foreign banks have been closed and are still doing only limited business, while Chinese bank notes are unpopular and a silver embargo keeps stabilization at more than arms-length. The feeling of foreign business men against the Nationalist government here is rabid. Chinese business men are declared to feel similarly but they are necessarily less outspoken. For the bright side one must go to Nationalist government officials and their supporters. Eugene Chen, foreign, minister, points out that “nobody ever saw a revolution accompanied by “business as usual” while in general the government view seems to be that conditions will rapidly improve, providing the military situation progresses favorably. Admit Mistakes “We have made mistakes, it must be frankly admitted,” said pne high Government official. “The point is that we have altered out tactics to fit changing conditions, we have not been afraid to try things and abandon them if they didn’t work. “When the Nationalists came into the Wuhan area we found a large group of discontented and oppressed laborers. Feeling the pressure removed, they got out of hand. We have been patient, but firm; things are improving and will continue to improve and will win out.” Few Americans Remain No one can fail to be impressed by the tremendous tension in Hankow today. tYaves of alarm run throughout the foreign colony at a second’s notice, or no notice at all. Now it is the French who are affected and are throwing up barricades in their concession, again it is the Japanese. Americans cannot be so much affected because only about seventy remain out of a former 450. Voicing opinions* is today for the foreigner one of the most dangerous occupations in Hankow. Social ostracism descends like a flash upon the unfortunate who says something unpopular, or who “consorts with the enemy.” Every move of every resident is*a matter for serious consideration by all the other residents.

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oped at the lowa Agricultural experiment station. Besides increasing the yields of such small grains, plant breeders have succeeded in producing new varieties resistant to certain diseases, particularly rust and smut. OLD ALE DIES UNKNOWN After 30 Years Aging, Choice Liquor Goes to Vinegar. Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 11.—Four thousand barrels of ale, some of it thirty years old, and all of it older than the Eighteenth Amendment, will soon be shipped by the Feigenspan Ice and Coal Company of Newark, N. J., to the Heinz Pickle Company at Pittsburgh, where it will be transformed into malt vinegar, officers of the Fiegenspan Company said yesterday. The ale has been lying In the vaults of the old Feigenspan Brewery. The 4,000 barrels contain 128,000 gallons, which will be poured into tank cars.

PRESIDENT VERY SORRY But Madison (Wis.) Crowd Waited for Glimpse in Vain. Bu United Press MADISON, Wis., July 11.—President Coolldge, in a letter to Governor Zimmerman, has expressed his regret that he was unable to greet the people of Wisconsin In person on the passage of his train through

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