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The polecat, ao closely related to the farret is now all but extinct learn at the same time that theThere is, however, a region where In most parts of the British Isles, financial situation fr France grows the animal still survivus, and, in- Every rather than less, disquiet-deed flourishes, and often betrays additional word four cents for 99, 13 one hand, and that, on his presence by raiding the poultry-1 the other, all sorts of things are runs of the outlying farm stends happening which seem to indicate and taking toll of the poultry, alt
growing economic prosperity. The frane continues to go, down, during the tambing season by even visiting the sheep-fold and killing
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hat we hear one day of the open-an agensional atgb as it slumbers
and nestles against the ewe side.
ing of a great aubterranean water-
hone. Another day of the way to connect Marseilles with the
furnished, two In family. English,auguration of the largest dam yet arrommodation for 3 or 4 paying onstructed in France, making a Huests, board optional, telephone great lake and a head of water Box 134, co "China Mail"
ufficient to electrify a whole raft way system, another day, again, Lethe official opening of petroleum
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wells and refineries in Alance, which are to help! France to ra duer her enormous imports
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I am referring to the recits fast. nesses of the caves and cliffs of The Welsh hills and mountaina.
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er for centuries the polerat has lived, bred and multiplied, and here for centuries he may tinue, sharing his inaccessible and destructive as himself and the home with an etter as uncivilised
gaunt hungry hill-aide los.
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From spring to autumn it is only occasional glimpse that 1:1 gought of the "animalsas, perhaps, The "crosses'a clearing or lanp from
crag to crage but as soon as the, cold winds of the winter, sweeping in from the Atlantic, lay the hill- sides barer and the mountain tops become
Oh visiting cards neatly and matar spirit.
A veritable, savage, the hand of promptly printed."China- The contrast between the loan-Everybody is against him, and year' Mail" Office, No. 5. Wyndham St.,ial distress and the economic by year he falls a victim in num- Telephone Central 22.
prosperity of France is, within tha bers to the Welsh sheep-dog and limits of the latter, Yal enough; to the trap and gun, but still he but to pstimate the ecinomie situs-tinues, never, is seems begom- tion at its rite walue, the limits ing less in numbers, never becom tal it must be clearly, underanvod,
ing more numerous. the important. enterprises whose recent completion makes se ingginative an appeal are not, ne- messarily evidences of actual pros Derity. They all represent the work of a good many years, nad were begun when the financial prospects were by Ro MIRAUN HO More- disquieting as they are now. over. they represent 'n capital ex- penditure, most of which from private or, at least, from
enlly municipal resources; and must not be deducre" from them that he French Government is laying on any vast sums on public works. On the contrary, its ex- pendiluresin this respect is being Very strictly limited
NOTICE.
HONGKONG WATERWORKS,
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IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on and after SATURDAY, the 21th instant, THE SUPPLY OF WATER ALE the RIDER MAIN DISTÄRTS. Will be controlled by inging the RIDER MAINS into eperation and that Water will be Taned on to eth RIDER MAIN jeneutigerÜDUTS. information as to the Hoars of Supply to any Particular Property may be obracinéd on gppli dion at the Office of the Water Authority. the Secretariat for Whinese, Affairs,
the Tunar Wah Hospital"
HAROLD T, TREASY, Water Authority. Public Warks Department,
Hongkong. 22nd July, 1926,
NOTICE.
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HONGKONG WATERWORKS.
TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED thit, owing to damage caused to the Waterworks, the public are, werom mended to boil all water used for potable purposes until further
notice.
HAROLD T. CREASY.
Water Authority. Public Works Department.
Hongkong, 21st July, 1926
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CHINA'S WARS.
DISPLAY OF INEPTITUDE.
Seldom has Republican China; witnessed such a display of in- eptitude as is now in progress, The great war lorda, who were so successful around Tientsin and Peking à few weeks ago, seem to be at loggerheads no to what their next move shall be; and meantime their defeated enemy, left to him- self. is regaining strength, and,; in the absence of a Government, i the affairs of the country are being allowed to drift. The con- ference between Marshals Chang Tso- and Wu Pei-tu, from which so much was expected, has not materialised. They are allies at a distance, only agreed upon one thing-the elimination of the Kuominchum--but as to the pre- iminaries which would give them full freedom for joint action D such a course, they seem to be widely apart. Also, unhappily for them, their solitary common interest is not shared by their political underlings, all of whom are competing strenuously for preferment and political in triguers, working for the enemy. and themselves, have scored in bringing the giants to a standstill. The position now is that the Kuo- mincaun, preparing for another big struggle to reinstate them- selves, are "Already menacing Shansi as well as the capital itself, where the prospect of their re- turn is regarded with anything but joy. As matters stand at present, the position of Wu Pel- fu. sandwiched as he is between the Kuominchun and the Kuomin tang, who are seeking to join hands, is not too secure. Much must be expected from his some- what cold ally in the north if their one common aim is to be achieved and their protestations of patriot-
press and Telegraph."
capped, with snow, ghe igrates with his family to the wlands.. ta prey on the game, the rabbits, and the struggling farmers When passing recently poultry.
Llandovery.
South through Wales, I saw several ne, well-set- up specimens in a taxidermiste i shop window, and was told that all Were killed during the last six months within a few miles of the FORMOSA & HOKKAIDO OFFER |ism are to fructify.-"China Ex-
town,
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At the same time, there are many one family a year, and again.
economic prosperity, Barse signa may be considered superdcial and the prosperity to which they point may be in fus essence transitory, but meanwhite there they are. For one thing
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Th up to as many as a dozen. Jong grow and develop rapidly.
As for months of age they are -utmost--full-grown-and-expert-
As a rule. they remain with their parents, all hunting together like a miniature pack hounds, until another spring comes round, and it is time for they them selves to pair and breed.
hunters.
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JAPAN'S SAFETY VALVE.
FIELD FOR MILLIONS.
A Tokyo correspondent of the North China Daily News" Vries -——
The Japanese Government has at last turned its attention to the population and development" of
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word, puzzle.)
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS
ck men and women lived longer: Epidemics were easier to check and altogether we lived better. But the increase of population is Japan
now a very serious question 'for The question of emigration-us. You have shut your doors;] the alleged necessity for emigra-you decline to let us go to tion to other countries, if Japan America or to Australia or to is to provide for her increasing Canada to earn a living. The population, has for the last quar-population swells. You even ter of a century-been-this coun grow when we turn our faces to LAMMERT BROS. Fury's most fruitful source ofwards China or Siberia and you: trouble? Had it not been for gave us a bad quarter of ar hour! this question American-Japaneset when we annexed Korea." relations never would have been
Through all the years since strained as they have been then, the Japanese have nursed a charged by British conlowners for strained, even exported coal after the war, esp-point at times. When I came to put forward and stressed their to the breaking grievance and have continuously clally as those prices were fixed-Japan in 1907, the situation was congested population and the unfairly, as the French
think-serious. It has been serious ever rapid increase of population, while higher for the foreign than for the since and now the crisis has been the possibilities of vast areas of home consumer.
reached; perhaps it has passed sparsely populated and splendidly Two railways at once determined and there is reason to hope and to productive lands at home await}·· to liberate themselves from the believe that the Japanese, Govern- easy development. tyranny of British coal even sooner ment and the few solid men who than they had at first
intended, have come from the ranks in these and hastened the termination
20 years realise the folly of in- their electric works. The Midsisting upon relieving by emigra a Railway has gained its freedom.tion a congestion of population,
There is viridally no unemployment, The figures for official pofief, which touched their highest point-ven then only 91,200-in March, 1927, have now descended to lens than 100. Moreover, the French labore market seems easily to be able to absorb a constant inflow of for
ign recruits, Belgiana in the North, Spaniarda
Gascony, Tralians in Provence and Savoy, are Constantly increasing, and supply- ing the labour for many industries, As for the Poles, introduced by agreement with their Government to meet the demand for agricul- turn! hands, they have come in by whole villages, with their families and their priests. tinugs to find work for all this influx, and the influx does not cease. It must be remembered, however, that they come to supple munt a stationary. If not, a dimin. ishing population, and such population is not A
of The Orleans Railway, has done so when it is within their power to strength in any country, and espe-in part, and when it shall
have relieve that congestion by migra- cially
in a country so naturally completed its series of dams on the tion of the population of to-day as the Dordogne one of which is to be and provision for the population rich as that of France. large stretches of land going out even larger than
that just of the next 50 years within the of cultivation in certain districts Augurated on the "Creuse it will boundaries of Japan itself.
have done so entirely. The Lyone
Count Komuro's Views.
Formosa, a semi-tropical para- Railway are planning to do so, F the "not distant future, for all of Some years ago. I had the pri- dise will afford a field equal in the southern part of their system.
a conversation with production to any land in the vilege of The French development of water Marquis Komuro, then Count southern states of America, or in power for electricity, as well as Komuro, the brilliant little Minis- the warmer climates of the that of the Italians on the other ter for Foreign Affairs, who will Pacific the Philippines, for
are there to show.
source
Even the present apparently prosperous condition of French in dustry is deceptive. The low value of her currency enables France t increase her exports and to under cut prices in foreign markets; but
What Hokkaido Could Be. The Hokkaido, or Northern Island, capable of accommodating several millions of industrious farmers and other millions in pro- fitable minor and major industries with wheat lands, timber, alfalfa, cattle, water and a certain amount of minerals is now calling the attention of the authorities to its possibilities.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the she is really giving away her subside of the Alps, is an important be remembered as Foreign Minis- instance. Company will be CLOSED from atance. She is selling under cost factor in considering what may be ter throughout. the Russo lf systematic development FRIDAY, the 23rd July to WED-price; for the raw materials from the future of the British coal ex-Japanese war and one of the three takes place there and inducements NESDAY the 4th August (both which she has manufactured have ports. days inclusive), during which to be replaced from abroad, and the period no transfer of shares can be registered.
very exchange which enables her to sell her products cheap forces her
By Order of the Board of Directors, to buy the new raw material dear. As for her own produce, her wing, her silk, her perfumes, the prices nt which she sells amcunt virtually to giving part of them away.
Harnessing Water.
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Acting Secretary, Hongkong, 14th July, 1926.
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Oil Prospecting.
real statesmen who have guided are offered to the hardworking the affairs of Japan in the entire and hard-living people of the period of her relations. with for- main island, a few years must see eign countries. The conversation an influx to that beautiful island
the
wearisome with room for a few millions more
are
As for petrol, the Pechelbronn turned upon works in Alsace, which have just question of emigration and im- people willing and able to produce. been officially opened in their remigration and the attitude of organised form, were exploited by America, Canada, and Australia as big as England and with a Korea is a fine farming country the Germans," who ended by ex versus Japanese or rather, population of some 15 millions of tracting 40,000 tons a year. This Orientals, Marquis Komuro was people who, unlike the Japanese, output has now been increased to talking to me as a newspaper man. re non-industrious and who The works which have been in 100,000 tons, and the by-products. He argued thus: augurated in the last few weeks which were sold during the Ger
through generations ...of mal strike the imagination, neverthe-man "occupation, are
"A little more than 50 years government have become dis- less, and the, development of their on the spot. Prospecting has also door and you came with big guns keep body and soul together.
now treated ago, you came and knocked at our inclined to do more work than will like may mean much for the future. been carried on for some years, at and battleships. You demanded Take the development of water Gabian, near the Mediterranean, admission, the right to trade and
600,000 Annually. At last the Government ap- power for electric generating and although the production is st travel and reside. stations. Some of the torrents of present hardly more than 1,000 tons want you. We were living our necessity of giving a lead to a „We didn't pears to have wakened up to the the Alps had already been harness a year, further experimental wells own lives and we thought it un-development movement and at ed before the war, and much had are being sunk, and it is hoped to wise to let you in and to permit last been projected in the Alps, the find oil in greater quantities, your big black ships to prowling appropriations with which tentatively consider- Pyrenees, and the less steep but Prospecting is also being carried along our shores and anchor in inducements may be offered to yet, powerful watercourses of the on In the Limague district of Plateau Central. Much was done Auvergne, in
our baya, Some of our far seeing those who are restless here and the Pyrenees and during the war itself. If the Midi olsewhere.
people knew that some day, per are driven they think to emigra- Railway is now entirely run by The potash mines of Alsace, haps, we might be ready to do tion or increasing poverty, electricity generated
what you wanted, but that the the whose production has been
It is not too late to discuss thre Pyrenean watershed, the construc- than doubled since they were re-let you in and we are not sorry many years of misdirected ex- time was not yet. However, we question in the open and after tive labour for that work was large covered for Franc. are another we have profited by your coming penditure upon non-profitable ly supplied by German prisoners. source of national wealth. The dam completed the other day
We have learned | undertakings, to concentrate upon Real wealth France indeed has in many ways. In the valley of the Creuse, which in this as in many other ways many new things and we welcome the peglected opportunities and has made a lake-twelve milea, fong. Her wine.her corn, hor iron, and you now.
provisions within the Empire sometimes half a mile wide, and in her coal are port of it, as is also afties and sixties of the 19th 500,000 annually.
"But even at that time in the whose population is increasing by. places two hundred feet deep as her cllinate. So are the extra- big as that of Annecy, and will ordinary industry of her people, century, our population was fairly supply power not only sufficient to their Intelligence and their artistic well congested, and the increase drive part of the Orleans Rallway, taste, If her economic prosperity was fairly rapid, but our infont but also with some to spare to at the moment is more apparent mortality, our mode of life and cavry for general distribution as than real, that does not mean that our inability to cope with disease far as Poris, was begun before the the riches to, make the economic counteracted the births. You war was over." A special impetus prosperity are not there. In one brought us medicine and hygiene was, however, given to all these thing only Is she poor-in man and sanitation and in the course andertakings by the high prices! power." The Observer."
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