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At the mosting of the British Association at Southport on the 11th ult. Lieutenant-Colonol
Co. Masileld, of the Indian Medical Servies,
read a paper before the Geographical Section on recent explorations in China. The paper em- braced an acconut of two journeys to the regions of the Upper Yongtoro, immediately before and after the Boxer ontbreak. The first journey in 1900, lasted for saren months and ranged from Burma to Tibaian territory and across China to Shanghai; and the second, made in 11-2, lasted for nine months and took him from Peking almost back to the confines of The distance covered was nearly Burna. 4,000 tiles of land travel on foot and 3,00 mil s on inland waterways. The starting point of the first journoy was Bhame, our frontier garrison town on the borders of Buries and China, and the starting-point of large trains of e olies and A males carrying Indian yarn into Chlua, start was made just at the time of the Chinese now your, and on the second day Chinese territory was entered and the party at once came upon the paved roads found all over China These roads were usually from one to twe yards in width and well merited the Chinese description of them, ronds good for tou yours
The road taken was e bad for a thousand,"
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRP9Q FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16ru 1908
MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN WAR.
Ignorance of the cause and nature, of hepan. ailments, and of what best to do when attacked" by sicknow, is responsible for greater los of life, and influitely more prolonged micory, than the most dowlating war that was over waged. Wars brest out, rage fiercely subside, und there is peace once more in the land; but the pe ple who are sick and sillog, who daunot everywhery and always there is a proportion of properly sastain their part in the competition of life, and whose time is passed in sul riog pain, from which they perceive no way of escape except by death.
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280 miles. After two months of adventure in this district, the travellers made their way to Tachaalu, the espital of what may be called the Chinese Tibot. Hero there was a telegraph offee, and they found telegrams from the sathorities in India warning them of the disturbances and advising them to retorn by way of Yunnan to Bucks. They, however, determined to pusk on and try to effect exit by the Yaugisze River. From Tasheulu they followed the great tea road between Tibet and China, so called because of this great trafic
the wisoat and noblast of mankind in ten carried between Lbassi and Yachon,
bave ozerted their mental power to the utmost Millions of pount, weight of coarse les sweep. to avert, sa far as may be, the enti-ring sod of Lamsuity. and they have hoen ings go into Tibat from Western China, and the wad by a large mossuiro of success. ecturer pointed out that if free commercial evils we deplore, great as they naoubtedly still relations could bo established with Tibet there
ure, have been ese mously diminished by their was no doubt that the better and cheaper Indian efforts, Many modes of treatment formerly in science to lo positively detrimental to patients, tes would capture this market. From Yachon high repute have hesa proved by modern the route taken was by raft down a tributary of while remedios have been discovered of such the Yangtsz. then through the Yangtz wonderful fletry that the cares they work would bare ben esposted intracles in a darkor and more spustitions ago. The foremost Erges to Fchang, and then by stommer, 900
place among these ding-dispelling life-savers miles, to Shanghai. Proceeding thence to Piontain the party were just in time to join must be given to Mother -igel's Corative has been doing its kannada work in all parts of the Peking relief expedition. On September Syrup. For thirty-lise years that great comedy CENERAL DRAPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND
"No other medicine is so much 20, 1941, Lieusmant-Colonel Manifold started
esteemed or likely to be white people coluu- _LU thony' aross Central to Western China in the opposite tarily write of it in terms such again on a journey of some thousands of miles the world direct on to that in which he had travello aployed by Mr Ian T. Sihiga, of Enguujini, Colony, who, in a letter dated 10th June 190, well-known trade route to Tengyush, the before. Captain Hanter, R.E., was his fellow. Sierzeword, P... Grigualad East, Capa traveller, and each, was agcompanied by a
Maye nearest large trading centra in Yaunay, a town more commonly known by the name of Momain. earveyor and thras Gurkhas. Each party was a It had been proposed to connect Bhame and complete auit, so that, if desirable, they might Tongyneb by railway, and though it would not parate. From Peking they travelled 90 miles by the French-Belgiau controlled fine which was bo fossible to carry the line any farther, a
to run to the Yungisza Valley at Hankan, a lintauce of only 130 miles, even this sort of fine
lue which was finey to has great offael ou wonid pay its way and incrones one trade and}
the development and history of China, as it intaenzo ie Yannon. After touching the
traversed some of the most populous and fortile Yangtze above its great bend, he was to go
districts of China. It was ao paper concession. north west and join Captains Daries and Ryder,Trains were now rowing fase Poking for 160 who had started is D. comber, 1809, by exparate miles, and fran Haukau for 20 miles along rontes to the rendezvous on the casting borders the southera section, the materials for coas ray of Tibet. The routes those two offers weretion coming from France and Bolgium, and the taking touched on the line the proposed railway larger bridgeslaving baos contracted to Italiaas from Barma to the Yangisse Valley would have At Hank at the lie was connected with one There was no doubt of the ad- from Canton raw under constructios, and bợ followed. vantages of such a railway if it could be the concession the road materials were under the constructed at rensounble cost, at grast control of American firms, trough most of the natural dealtios arised by the forma
shares were said to hayo powed into the hands of Belgian syndicates. Thus there was not much enormous. Even the supporters of the the room here for British enterprise. They marched admitted that the most carefully chosen line to Chatarfa, ailes urther. There, too, of conuiry must prove exponsivo. The project, they found evidence of foreign railway enter- however, must not be sabj-ctal to sweeping
priso
Many bridgoa gould have to be condemnation. Yunnanfu, the capital of constructed, the largest across the Yellow River the sparsely populated and at provont poor itself at Yungte. The it was satisfactory to find evidence of Britià energy in a rail- province el Yuuhan, was the halfway house
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to the rich regions of the Upper Yangtzway 700 miles distant from a sexport; but A French company had now obtained a coa-
on-crossing the Yellow River and ranching the city of Kaifengfo, they found evidence cession for a railway from the frontier in Tongking to Yousuf, and they honed in of Conticnatal enterpris, especially Gorman time to carry it to the Upper Yangtze und The lecturer then gave a description of the divert the trade to their wa port of Hai,provises of Sichuan, with its 6,009,400 of The construction of the line had already been fahanadin-asso industries, which from started. The French Governm at, in ga the point of e quiveres had the most inter et for A narrative followed of the Red Basin with rantocing the construction, show-d that they recognised how essential it was that private an ares of nearly 80,0 equare milos and a enterprise should receive material support at population of over 10.000,901, the densest agri. their hands. The news of an encounter be suitoral population in the world. Every foot of tween a Chinese regiment and the Burmese soil was under props, and sarcoly a piece of Military Police recobed Tougynok two days waste land was abound. Rice, vial, midetas augsto Kowloon Entol). before his arrival at that place, and th
puas and beans, sugar-ema, and every sort of attitude of the populace towards his party vegetables were grown in abaudines, and in was very iberatoning, but he was able to with
many places were brine walls: 20ft, deep, salt draw safely from the town. The excitement being a ro y valuable product in Chion. In other parts rich iron ore, copper, and quicksilvor, however, extended outsid the town, add it WAS net nad after many stormy interviews with and also gold, were fonul ia great qtaptities. the local magistrate and brigadier-general that At Long the Yungtas emerged from the
THE Public are herohy notified that the the party was allowed to proceed. Tais incident mountain barriers and became navigible nearly dorsigand are the SOLE AGEN IS
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Hongkong, 9th October, 1993, of Spion Kop, and he found that the officials in
Archibald Little atrading steamor, the Pioneer, wes placed on this strateh of the Yungtass.
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was no doubt that the successes of the undrilled Boar forces had a tremendous piĩmt in causing the Chinese to believe in the possibilities of the Bogor movement, which was undoubtedly looked upon asa great patriotic national outburst. The countryof Ynanan wasmountain ms and sparsely populated, but it was very rich in minerals. The present population, however, would never do macks, as their energy was sapped by the abuse of opino. After meeting, with great difficulties in crossing the bigher passes, some of which
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In the course of a short disenssion, Mr. G. J. Morrison said he thought people were a little herd gederally on British exterprise. If the Britisu had not done quite as much as the Germans in Coins, it must be remembered that they laboured noter a great disadvantage, CODE WORD: "DOCK” ŃAGASAKI because the British Govornue & would not take A1, A B.C., Scotts and Engineering Code
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Length of Books so to speak. Lord Curzon was once asked whether, it a British syndicate obtained a concession in China which was approved by the Foreign Office, and a primú furie oude was made out that the Chinese were treating that syndicate badly, the Foreign Office would being pressure to bear to obtain fair trestment fir them. He replied that, unming the under taking to be a commercial ons, be thought they might osant cu the Government's bene, voleat neutrality. That being the state of affair, British capitalists could hardly be expected to unt their money into these undertakings, bat Englishmen were realy starting work an, and, though the Germans eventually moddle through" and come out bad got a start of them, he hoped they wight top as they had done in many previous caseK.
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