Manchurian Trouble Upsets Plan

for Exodus ... ———

From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, October 8.

THE local trading schooner, “Pro Patria,” was recently chartered by one of the Chinese tongs for a voyage to China, and about 100 Chinese, discontented with present conditions in Tahiti, and finding it impossible to get home by way of America, bought tickets for the trip.

Much expense was incurred in altering the vessel in order to accommodate such an unusual number of passengers, and a huge deck house, resembling a Chinese pagoda, was erected amidships. Sailing day arrived and the Chinese all went aboard with their various domestic appendages. All was ready for sailing and the lines were about to be cast off, when the first news of the Japanese and Chinese trouble reached Tahiti, and the trip was promptly abandoned.

A good many of the local Chinese, particularly those who have relied on manual labour and the working of small properties on a share basis, have been put out of business by the present depression, and it was anticipated that several hundreds of these would have returned to China in batches of about a hundred at a time.

The Chinese market gardeners and small shopkeepers, appear to be hold ing their own in spite of bad times. ===