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possible hitherto. The Chinese Postal Administration went to considerable trouble last year to obtain an estimate of the population, recourse being had to the assistance of the provincial officials, which in most cases was will- ingly accorded, and the reauit gave a total of 197,679,914, but this total did not include one hsien` and Mongolia in the Peking district; three haien in the Manchuria district; and the province of Tibet. The estimate corresponds fairly closely to the official estimates given in the Directory and Chronicle for the current year. It may be said, then, that
the total area of Chinese territory, which
is estimated at 4,278,352 square miles, has a population of about 440,000,000 persons. We have received fresh stocks of How Mr. BLAND gets his estimate of the birth-cata in Ching we do not know. It the latest FRENCH PERFUMES, at best, a wild guess, from Coty, Dubarry, Chiris, and
other high-class perfumers which
include their choicest examples:
Roger & Gallets Perfume caskets of 2 and 3 bottles.
Coffrets of Perfume Soap
and Powder.
But accepting his calculations as to the rate of inercase in the population of
Chisa, must we necessarily accept the deduction that emigration is the only possible alternative to these periodical famine? Anyone who has travelled over China must agree with the China Fear Book when it says that China, sa a whole, is far from being over-populated and only
The South Manchuria Railway donated a million yen to the famine funds, and subscription fund is bei opened at Dairea
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week and-- ing December 11th amounted to 90,058 tons. and the sales, during the period, tó 82.919
tony.
Scotsmen are reminded by an adver tisement in another column that the list of subscriptions to the Scottish National War Memorial closes in Hongkong om- December 31st..
The attention of Master Masons T directed to the announcement among our to-day's advertisementa | respecting the- annual meeting of the District Grand
Lodge of Hongkongnud South China.
It is stated in the vernacular press of Canton that in the last few weeks some two million dollars' worth of snuggle salt, unlicensed salt transportation junks, and property used in connection with the smuggling trade were captured by the Salt Preventive Service
A. Tientsin paper states that a fairly reported from the famine refugee camp at age number of cases of smallpox, ane Nankai near Tientsin. Efforts are being made to segregate the suspects and this is entailing much extra labour on the small. body of welist workers.
It is stated from Cupechagen that experiments on the Danish National Rail- ways with Ching, American, and African The or are proving unsatisfactory. inferior quality of the coal involves in some cases as much as two hour delay in a hundred miles, and trains have had so be stopped while the fires were cleared.
A Chinese woman, living in Water Street, West Point, has reported to the police that on the evening of December. 27th, five men, one armed with a revolver and the others with daggers, entered her house, bound ber and the other inmates of the house and ransacked the premises The robbers go away with a quantity of eleching and
jewellery- Chins's second national University is to The project be established at Nanking has been approved by the Board of Educa tion and the Cabinet. It is of interest to those who have visited, or live, in Nan sing to know that Mr. Chang Boo-ching, owner of the former Nanyang Exhibition Ground, is thinking of giving this large state to the new University
TROM FEBRUART, for one or two yours. Fully Single bottles, Casey of 2 bottles, FR
Caskets of 2 and 3 bottles...
Series of Eau de Cologne and in the most highly-favoured districts does the density of population approximate that Lavender Water.
of some European countries. China, indeed, is nothing liko na densely populated as India. In some parts of Chinese territory the population is very sparse In Mongolia, for example, it. indeed. works out at two persons to the square mile, and in Chinese Turkestan to only four to the square mile. Population is densest along the fertile valleys of the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and it is described as "most scattered" along the border provinces of Bansu, Szechuan, Yunnan and Kingsi, whore geographical conditions as well as tribal fends have helped to thin the population. It will thus be seen that there is yet, plenty of room China before the population need
According to Chinese news agency necessarily.“
✔over flow beyond her own report the Kwangi Party, under M2- borders in any greater stream than it does Yung-hsien, before leaving Canton last October, borrored more than a million at the present time, Mr. BLAND says that deliste. from different native banks and." is as'a matter of nober Fict, the benevolent local firms, giving miscellaneous taxes as The interest promised was ex- activities of our missionary societies to security.
ceedingly high, the monthly rate running reduce the death rate, by the prevention of from 10 to 15 per cent., or an annual infanticide and the checking of disease, interest of from 120 to 180 per cent actually serve in the end to aggravats the The Canton Tints says. There are pressure of population upon its food angely some $300,000 worth at the new Provinsial and to increase the severity of the inevitBank of Kwangtung notes on the market.
They are being accepted at par value, ably resultant catastrophe." He does not the notes may be redeemed at the printer go so far as to advise that the Chinese of the Bank or at any one of the ten should be left alone by the missionaries, but agencies in different parts of the city.
payment of Government dues. The Bank. is daily receiving about $90,000 from dife terent sources.
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1975 NORTHCOTE On December that propaganda, directed first against poly- The Bhanghat Race Club's Lottery Iddesleigh." Bowen Road, Emily gamy and the marriage of minors and the machines were put to a new use, last week, Baaton, the dearly loved wife of unfit, and next, towards such a limitation when they were found a convenient means MOWBRAY STAFFOED NORTHCOTE.
of giving effeos to the decision at the last of the birth rate ne shall approximate to the ratepayers meeting to close the licensed standard in civilized countries. No doubt, tones of Shanghai within five years by all this is desirable, but there are other annual drawings. The houses on the roll were all numbered the numbers put into means of preventing these natural one of the drums and drawn under the calamities which can be more readily supervision of Mr. B. Fersenden, Judge
Skinner applied. One of the most obvious is to the Turner, and representatives of
Municipal Council and the Police.. network cover the country with of railways. Though 20,000.000 people been brought to the verge of starvation by the present famine, do not hear that food enough is not to be-oblained in China to meet their wants if only they could be quickly ratched. Mears of rapid transportation form one of the most obvious way of mitigating
The Daily Press
-- Horaxona, Decamnet 2015; 1920.-
CHINA'S BIRTH-RÄTE AND THE FAMINE.
We do not know whether many
.
have
Leader-Rumor has it that the
The following is taken from the falayan
principala: of some of the biggest business houses and rubber companies in the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements are preparing to form a combine with a capital variously emimated a from $25,000,000 to is to acquire all the existing stocks of 850,000,000. It is said that the intention rubber and fasuo credip notes that will pasa into ordinary currency against the ultimate sale of these stocks at a price that it will
the mid Bhares will be issued and the bill Cert authorities on Chine would be prepared these calamities: Enlightened Chinese be possible for Malays to dictate to its
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to entirely endorse Mr. J. O. P. BLAND'S dictum as to the causes of famine in Chins which we reproduce in another column from the London Observer. Mr. BLAD expresses the opinion that so long as China maintains a birth-rate which 13 "estimated at 65 per thousand, or over, the only possible alternative to these periodical visitations would be
recognise that the great calamities of food and famine which periodically cause a mach distress and loss of life in China are largely preventsble, and they are beginning to take the measures which should, in time, greatly mitigate, it they do not entirely prevent these frightful calamities Another consideration we may suggest is that
own favour when expected, demand for the commodity is revived.
The Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations announced the marriage on November 8th at the Chinesa Legation, in new Chinese Minister to Great Britain and Brussels, of Mr. V. Wellington Koo, the first representative of China, all the Assembly of the League of Natons, rath
Chinese Javanese lady, Hosylai,
young
emigration, and this would have to be before the end of the present century daughter of Octiongina, merkant ite
itly highly probable that China will Java, and largely interaced-in on such a scale as would speedily over have taken high rank in the world as London, as also has her sister, and was run and overfill the habitable globe. an Industrial and manufacturing country known as the Countess, Hoey, Angol Usul Given suficiency of food and elbow-room,
trade. The lady has lived: 20
the plaintiff in a divorce sation in the Law he says, the population of China, main-ther than the agricultural country she is old Stoker. She has quite recently been aber Her population will tend more and Courts against her husband.The decree taining its present birth-rate, would
more to concentrate in large cities. It cannot was issued on October 25th last. double itself by natural increase in be said that the limit of food produc- In the person of Mr. W. D. Kealt about twenty years. In other words, by tion has yet been reached in China, and an attorney of the Standard Oil Company the end of the present century, it would if the growth of her population out of New York, a very popular member of amount to 2,500 millions, that is to say strips her capacity to feed the people Colony this morning by the Pacific Mail the American community is leaving the more than the present population of the from her own soil, it would not neces- liner Colombia. Mr. Kraft has spent globe, and far more than its soil can
many years in the service of the Cons sarily compel the "pepple to emigrate; support.
pany in the Far East, several of them The first observation on this which it it would mean that just as England has
in Hongkong, and he is now retiring occurs to us to make is that the done she could draw upon the food Socially as well as in business. Mr- anreliability of Chinese statistics in which other countries, like the great Kraft will be greatly missed. His favou the past has made all such calen agricultural territories of Russia and rite recreation has been golf, and a week.
Canada, would probably still be able to end seldom passed, which did not see? lations as-Mr. BLAND pinces upon them supply, if need be, in ever-growing Mr. Kraft enjoying himself on the Fro- very untrustworthy. Taking, for instance, abundance. But it has yet to be provedling links. He leaves behind him the population statistics we find that that under a proper administration of great many friends who wish him well her territories China would not still, for Mr. Kraft is deeply sensible of the ties reputable authorities have differed widely many decades, be able to grow all the he is severing and does not leave the in their estimates, the difference showing food her growing population would Colony without many pangs of regret
require — MISBLAND'S striking article. 2,000 POUNDS, VERY SUPERIOR QUALITY & range of over one hundred millions. raises, however, an interesting subject for BANDMAN COMEDY COMPANY. ABSORTED CHOCOLATES.
In those times we are beginning to get general speculation and one which may more reliable, estimates on which future he strongly recommended for earnest study especially by the Chinese statesmen ay be able to bass more he undertake the duty and respon trustworthy conclusions than has been sibility of shaping the nation's destinies.
A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONERE, SURVEYOR", AND GENERAL BROKER.
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