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DEFORESTATION IN CHINA,
PRESL
TENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGË,
•pceived give the text American papers now
to Congress of President Roosevelt's Mes We give below a striking passage rég... lessons to be learnt from the results of doto "est
ation in Chins :—
eding the
INSURANCES
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-
SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
INDO-CHINA STEẨM NAVIGATION
COMPANY LIMITED.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,
That everything dries out fastor then form- erly is shown by the fact that the level of the wells all over the land has sunk perceptibly, many of them having become totally dry. In. addition to the realting agricultural distress, the watercourses have changed. Formerly they were narrow and deep, with an abundanes of clear water the year around; for
HE Undersigned, having been appointed. the roots and haigus of the forests caught the AGENTS for the above Company, are rainwater and let it escape by slow, regular prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
T seepage. They have now become broad, shallow
WM, MEYERINK & CO., Agents,
(120 Hongkong, 5th September, 1908.
.
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY
OF HAMBURG.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
I.
CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1905:
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NYORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN-
II.
Authorised Capital...
Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital Fire Funds
$3,000,000 2,750,000
687,500 0 0 3,065,374 15 7
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st July, 1908.
NEW CARTRIDGES.
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"KUMSANG," having arrived from thunbove Porta Consignees | of Carge by her are hereby informed that thoir
'Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo, impeding the discharge or remaining (pu board after 4 2.3. the 13th inst., will be
landed at Consigneo's risk and expenso. No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Laling will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th January, 1909.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P. & O. 9. N. Co.'s Steamer
"DELHI,"
THE
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
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Consignees of Cargo by the above-namei vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and. Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be cbtained as soon as the
Goods are landed,
This vessel brings on Cargo:~~
From Londen, &c., OI NA.
From Persian Gulf ax B. I. 8. N. &
P. 8. N. Co.'s Steamere.
Optional Goods will be landed here nissa instructions are givou to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared, by the 13th inst..., ad § rim., '
all Bores and Sizes. SMOKELESS POWDERS and CHILLED SHOTS. From No. 10 to 8880. at 36, 87 and $7.50 per 100, SPORTING REQUISITES and AIR GUNS in Variety.
Inspection Invited.
WM. SCHMIDT & Co. [1445. Hongkong, 26th October, 1906.
BY popular English Manufacturers. In will be subject to rent.
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stream bois, in which muddy water trickles in at Current Rates.
onder currente during the dry seasons, while "All serious students of the question are when it rains there are freshete, and roaring aware of the great damage that has been done muddy torronts come tearing down, bringing in the Mediterranean countries of Europe, Asia disaster and destruction everywhere. Moreover, and Africa by deforestation. The similar damage these floods and freshets which diversify the that has been done in Eastern Asis is less well general dryness, wash away from the mountain known. A recent investigation into conditions sides, and either wash away or cover in the in North Ching by Mr. Frank N. Meyer, of the valors, the rich fertile wall which it took terrs of Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States thousands of years for nature to form, and it is Department of Agriculture, Ins incidentally lost for aver, and until the forests grow again it furnished in very striking fashion, proof cannot be replaced. The sand and stones from the of the rain that comes from reckless deforeste mountain rides are washed loose arid come rulling tion of mountains, and of the farther fact that down to cover the arable lands, and in con- the damage once done may prove practially sequence, throughout this part of China, many irreparable. So important are these investiga- formerly rich districts are now sandy wastes,
Split dh se mu uppoudis to useless for human cultivation and even for NTTLE INSURANCE COMPANCA my Message certain photographs showing pasture. The cities have been, of course,
They show in seriously affected, for the streams have gradually. TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1907 present conditions in China.
£18,114,624, vivid fashion, the appalling desolation, taking ceased to be navigable. There is testimony that the shaps of barren mountains and gravel and even within the memory of men now living there sand covered plains, which immediately follows has been a serious diminution of the rainfall of and depende upon the deforestation of the North-eastern China. The level of the Sungari mountains. Not muzy centuries ago the river, in Northern Manchuria, has been sensibly country of Northern Chins was one of the lowered daring the last fifty years, at least most fertile and beautiful spots in the entire partly as the result of the indiscriminate world, and was heavily forested. We know this cutting of the formats forming its waterafet. not only from the Chinese rocords, but from Almost all the rivers of Northern China the accounts given by the traveller, Marco have become uncontrollable, and very dan Polo. He, for instance, mentions that gerous to the dwellers along their baules, in visiting the provinces of Shansi and as a direct result of the destruction of Shensi he observed many plantations of the forests. The journey from Peking to Jehol mulberry trees. Now there is hardly a single showa in melancholy fashion how the soil has mulberry tres in either of these provinces, and been washed away from whole valleys, so that the culture of the silkworm has moved farther they have been converted into daserts.
In Northern hina this disastrous process south to regions of atmospheric moisture.
"As an illustration the complete change in has gone on so long and has proceeded so far that. the rivers, we may take Marco Polo a statement no complete remedy could be supplied. There are that a certain river, the Hu He, was so large certain mountains in Chins from which the soil and deep that merchants escended it from the is gone so utterly that only the slow action of sen with heavily laden boats; to-day this river is ages could again restore it; although, of course, simply a broad sand bed, with shallow, rapid much could be done to prevent the still further currents wandering bithor and thither across eastward extension of the Mongolian desort, if it, absolutely unnavigable. But we do not the Chinese Government would not at once. The Mountains, which formerly supported dense have to depend on written records. dry wells, and the walls with water far forests of larches and Arst, are now unable below the former watermark. bear tos to produce any wood, and because of their
since of danger
to timony to the good days of the past and the evil condition, are days of the present. Wherever the native the whole country." The photographs also vegetation has been allowed to remain, as, for show the same rivers after they have passed Jegance, hore and there around a sacred temple through the mountains, of the inforestation of or imperial barying ground, there are still hage
One of the photographs shows trees and tangled jungle, fragments of the the mountains, glorious ancient forests. The thick, matted scmavan passing through a valley Formerly With CHAMBER for 8 CARTRIDGES forest growth formerly covered the mountains when the mountains were forested, it was thickly to their sumamite. All natural factors favoured peopled by prosperons peasants. Now the foods. this dense forest growth, and as long as it was have carried destruction all over the land and permitted to exist, the plains at the foot of the the valley is a strong desert. One photograph mountains were among the most fertile on the shows a mountain road covered with the stones globe, and the whole country was a garden, and rocks that are brought down in the rainy season from the mountains which have already Not the slightest effort was made, however, to
been deforented by human hands. Another prevent the unchecked outting of the trees, or to secure reforestation. Doubtless for many shows a pobbly river bel in Southern Man- centuries the tree cutting by the inhabitanta churia, where what was once a great streaz in has dried up, owing to the deforestation of the mountains worked but slowly bringing about the changes that have now in the mountains. Only some scrab wood is come to pass; doubtless for generations the left, which will disappear within a half century. inroads were acarcely noticeable. But there Yet another shows the effect of one of the wash. came a time when the forest had shrunk suffi- outs, destroying an arable mountainside, these ciently to make each year's putting a serious washouts being due to the removal of all vegeta matter, and from that time on the destraction tion; yet in this photograph the fore-ground proceeded with appaling rapidity; for, of course; shows that deforestation is still a possibility in each year of destruction rendered the forest loss placen able to recuperate, less able to rasist next year's inroad. Mr. Meyer describes the ceaseless pro gress of the destruction oven now, when there as so littlo left to destroy. Every morning men and boya go out armed with mattock or ax, coale the steepest mountain sides and cut down and grab out, root and branch the small trees and shrobs still to be found. The big trees disappeared centuries ago, so that Now one of these is never seen sare in the neighbourhood of temples, where they are arti leially protected; and even here it takes all the watch and care of the tres loving priests to prevent their destruction. Each family, each community, where there is no common care exercised in the interest cfall of them to prevent deforestation, finds its profit in the immediate use of the fuel which would otherwise be used by some other family or some other poim warty. In the total absence of regulation of the matter in the interest of the whole people, each small group is inevitably pushed into a policy of destruction, which cannot afford to take thought for the morrow. Thie is just one of those matters which it is fatal A depression while to leave to unsupervised individual control. The forests can only be protected by the State, nation; and the liberty of individuals must be conditioned upon what the State or nation determines to be necessary for the commna safety.
con- Bow
"What has thus happened in Northern China, what has happened in Central Asia, in Palestine, in North Africa in parts of the Mediterranean countries of Europe, will surely happen in our country if we do not exercise that wise fore- thought which should be one of the chief marks of any people calling itself civilized. Nothing should be permitted to stant to the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country, in the future.”
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:-
Ou. the 12th at 11.55 am.-The barometer has risen quickly in B. Japan, and fallen cou siderably to moderately over the N.E. coast of China and the Loochoos respectively.
probably more towards N.E. has developed over the Pacific to the South of the Moiaco Sima.
Areas of high pressure are lying, over the N.E. part of the Sea of Japan, sad the Upper
Yangtas.
Strong monsoon may be expected in the Formosa Channel and moderate to fresh monsoon ever tho N. part of the China Sea.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, 0.00 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon N. to NE. to-day is as followe:—
winds, mad to to fresh; fair.
N.E. winds, strong. Same as No. 1. Same as No. 1.
Hongkong & Neighbourhood.
Formosa Channel South coast of Chins between Hongkong and Lamocks Sonth coast of China between Hongkong und Hainan...
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The lesson of deforestation in China is a lesson which mankind should have learned many times already from what has occurred in other places. Denudation leaves naked soil; then gullying outs down to the bare rock: and meanwhile the rock-waste buries the bottom- land. When the soil is gone, men must go; and the process does not take long. The ruthless destruction of the forest in northern China has brought about, or has aided in bringing abant, desolation, just as the destruc- tion of the forests in Central Asin aided in bring ing rain to the once rich central Asian cities; just as the destruction of the forests in northern Africs helped towards the rain of a region that
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Extreme Length...
Length on Blocks
Width of Entrance on Top
722 feet
714
96
88
523 feet.
513
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No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whutevor:
Damaged packages must be left in tho (downs for examination by the Consignes's and the Company's representative at an appointed hour. All claims must be presented within ten days of the stenner's arrival hero after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will. ho admittel after the goods have left the Liodowns.
E. A. HEWETT, Superintendent, Hongkong, 7th January, 1909.
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ITALIANA (Florio and Rabattine United Companies.). NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM BOMBAY AND SINGAPORE.
HE Btenanship THE
CAPRI,"
having arrived from the above Forts, "Con- signees of Cargo by her axe hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk, into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Lit, whence delivery may be obtained. Perishable Goods to be talen delivery of immediately.
All Claims must be sent to the Office of the
Du before Noon on the 16th inat, or.
not be recogniserl.
All Claims will be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hare after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th inst., will be subject to rent
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on the 15th fust at 9.30 A.M. No Fire Insurance has book effected.
CARLOWITZ & Co.,
Agenta, Hongkong, 8th January, 1909.
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
8.8. BENLARIQ,"
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Width of Entrance on Bottom... Water on Blocks at Spring Tide 34
DOCK No. 1. Extreme Length... Length on Blocks Width of Entrance on Top Width of Entrance on Bottom...
FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
DOCK NO. 2.
LONDON AND STRAITS. Extreme Length
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in- Length on Blocke
formed that all Goods are being landed at Width of Entrance on Top
their risk into the hazardous and/or extra Width of Entrance on Boltona,
hazardous Godowne of the Hongkong and Water on Blocks at Spring Tide
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whence and/or from the wharves delivery may Suitable for vessels up to 1,000.
HE WORKS are well equipped with be obtained
LATEST PLANTS and
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undertake BUILDING or ANCES to REPAIRING SHIPS, ENGINES, and undelivered after the 16th January, will be BOILERS; and also ELECTRICAL subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the WORK. |_ A LARGE STOOK of MATERIALS is 23rd January, or they will not be recognized.
always kept on hand.
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The COMPANY has the powerful steamer "OURA-MARU" (712 tons, 700 IHF) specially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES equipped with necessary gear, always ready
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SOLE AGENTS IN HONG KONG, CHINA & MANILLA, A. S.WATSON & CO.LTD.
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All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 16th January, at 11 A.M. No Fire Insurance lise been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
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NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, LONDON, COLOMBO AND SINGAPORE.
HE Company's Steamship THE
AWA MARU," having arrived from the ahore Ports, Con- signees of cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns a Kowloon, where each consignzoat will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed
Optional Goods will be carried on unless instractions are given to the contrary before NOON, TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by 18th Jan, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Damaged packages must be left in the Golowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Co.'s representatives at an appointed hour. All claims must be prosented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left Godowan.
NIPPON YUSEN KAIS Hongkong, 11th January, 1909,
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