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These new Dance Records are among the best Victor has ever made... rich in nòw melodies, new rhythms, now 'orchestral effects. If you like to dance.. and who doesn't? ...these will be a joy to you. Drop in and hear them today! Just a Little While-Wahs
THE TROUBADOUns Just a Little Dance Mam'selle-For Trot
LED REISMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 22543, 10-inch 'It's a Great Life-Fox Trot (If You Don't Weaken)
(from Paramount pictare, "Playboy of Paris")____: My Ideal Fox Trot (from Paramount picture, "Playboy of Paris")
GEORGE OLSEN, AND HIS MUSIC No. 22544, 10-inch Good Night Poor Harvard-March Fox Trot 2. Down the Field-
March
The Triple Cheer-March Fox Trot 2. The Princeton Cannon Song
March
RUDT VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YANKERS
No. 22743, 10-Inch Embraceable You-Fox Trat (from the Musical Comedy, "Girl Crazy") I Got Rhythm-Fox Trot (from the Musical Comedy, "Girl Cray")"
VICTOR ARDEN-PHIL. O¤Man and Tugir ORCHESTRA
No. 21558, 19-lock
Fine and Dandy-Fox Trot, (from the Musical Comedy,."Fine and
Dandy") Can This Bo Lovat-Fox Trot (from the Musical Comedy, "Fine and
Dandy"
VICTOR ARDEN-PHIL, OHMAN AND THEIR ORCHESTRA
No: 22552, 10-incha
Oh, How I Cried the Morning After-Fox Trot (The Night Before
With You) When Kentucky Bidds the World Good-Morning-Fox Trot
NAT SHILKRET AND THE VICTOR ORCHESTRA
No. 22553, 10-loch
I'm Your-Fox Trot Here Comes the Sun-For Trot
BERT LOWN AND HIS HOTEL BILTMORE ORCHESTRA
No. 27541, 30-lock
A Peach of a Pair-Fox Trot (from Paramount picture, "Follow Thru")
GUS ARNHEIM AND H19 ÛRCUESİRA (from Warner Bros, picture, "Maybe It's
LEO REISMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA No. 22546, 10-Inch
Maybe It's Laro-Fox Trot
Love")
I Don't Want to Dream-Fox Trot (If I Can't Dream of You) Sweet Jennie Lee--Fox Trat
No. 22533, 10-4ch
THE HIGH HATTERS
Song of the Big Trail-Waltz (Old Fashioned Song of Love)
(from Wm: Fox picture, "The Big Trail") Sing Song Girl-Fox Trot (Little Yells Cinderella)
BOY SHIELD AND THE VICTOR HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA
Ho. 22568, 10-inch
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SZECHUAN AND BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT.
WHAT A RAILWAY TO THE WILD WEST
PROVINCE WOULD MEAN.
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19, 1930.
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Arrivals.
By the R.M.S. Empress of Canada yesterday frorn. Vancouver, and the Northra. John W. Bicknell, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Biggar, Mr. E. D. Clark, Mrs. H. C. Gray, Mr. O. L. Hall, Mra. T. C. and Miss M. Monaghan, Mre. f. H. and Prof. M. H. Roffey, Mr. C. L. Fader. Mr.
It is not altogether fanciful to ambitions of their own rival, Tena-Wong Nai Wo, Mr. Liu Yeng Fang, say that the most promising pallidors: but from the main struggler. Y., Woo, Mr. C. Wah Quan, between North and South Chinn, Mr. T. Y. Deane, Mr. F. Kwan, tive for the unemployment in Eri- and from the war between the Na Mr. H. Y. Kuan, Mr. J, S. Lan tain would be 4 railway tionalist Government and the Noralt, Mr. A. E. Cherry, Mr. R. K. Valentine, Mr. L. Y. Liu, Mr. into Szechuan. The conservative thera Tachuus, they have been re-
hoto and immune. They represent H. A. Tomlinson, Mrs. Ho Chow party watch the figures going up nothing so much as a vast hody Siti. Count. Seilern, Mr. Wing with mocking glee, and the Soci,of consumers waiting to consume, Tycho, Mr. L. S. Day, Dr. Carl Wille, Mr. Carl Tavares, Mrs. H. alists wring their hands and ad: and it would be well were the on-
Y. Tany, Mr. Q. T. Chen, Mr. J. mats, Chambers of Commeres, "In-
C. Woo, Mr. Chna Jun Sang. Mr. stitutos, Federations, Associations,
W. Ting Chan, Mrs. W. M. Cheng, Merchants, Missionaries, and other
Mr. S. C. Vib, Mra. F. S. Smith, publicists dirooted to bringing about that great desideratum, railway, into their midat,China Express and Telegraph.
vertled 'their helplessness. Yet allergics of our Politicians, Diplo. Dyer, Mrs. Y. K. and Miss F
the while Szochuna lie, with her forty-five million potential' con- sumers of British goods, virtually inaccessible. Do not let us be little the work of river captaina who have made steamer traffic on The Upper Yangtze possible, at all events, in the guminer; but this, Szechua's only means of approach, remains precarious transport, and freights rule very high.
Szechuan is one of, the contal countries of the Chinese continent. Baber walked across it, fifty years ngo, and his scholarly descriptiva paper lica neglected among the Proceedings of the Royal Geogra- phical Society. Hosie, some time our Consul at Chengtu, made an exhaustive study of the province its products and potentialities, and the result of his work was isuod as a Parliamentary Paper. He went to Szechuan again in 1911 and collooted additional informa tion, and after a third visit in 1021, he published at Shanghai & revised edition of his Report, His work, as he says in the preface, is not a story of travel or adventure, nor it is entertaining reading, but it is a useful and practical book of reference dealing with the lar gest and probably the richest pro vipeo of China from a commerciai und industrial point of view,
Remote and Noglected. Because it was remote from Treaty Ports and Foreign inter- course, Szechuan fored badly in the days of the Battle of the Con- cessions. Peiping Hankow, Shang. hai, and even Canton got railway loans, but it was not until 1911 that a line into "Four Streams" got na far as a loan agreement, and then only as a second atave of a system of railways radiating from lankow, of which the Arat remning to this day uncompleted. Railway progress was slow from 1911 to 1914, owing to the political turmoil and inter-provincial war- fare with which the country was harassed, and in 1914 as the out- break of the Great War it came to a full stop.
Ballway Schemes.
Now that the Nationalist Gov- ernment at Nanking has attained como semblance of control over the country generally, whispers of new railway construction programmes are about. When Sun Fo, the Re- publican Minister of Communion- tions, was in England two years ago he orated grandiloquently of completing the line from Hankow to Canton, a most attractive north- and-south trunk pannection, and The same project is said to have bean the theme of the talk between Sir Miles Lampson and C. T. Wang when they were discussing what to do with the Boxer In- demuity accumulated funds. Bit
a railway from Hankow to Canton would do little for British exports, which reach both thoas metropoil- tan citie, without difficulty, and .would not be increased in volume by facilities for passing by rail from one to the other. Little, in- deod, would be the effect of that line on our employment problem in comparison with one from Han kow to Chungking, and 'thence "to Chengtu.
The population of Szechuan hoạ been variously estimated as low na 30 millions, and as high as 60 mil- lions. The best opinion is that it İfɛɛ about mid-way between these figures, say x 45 millions. The whole of China is computed to oon- tain 450 million people, so that Szechuan contains, roughly speak- abg, one-tenth of the population of the country. The foreign imports into China for the past three years, 1027-1999, have an average annual viluo of 1,100 million taols, of which Szechuan takes 11 millions That is to say, a provinco with rme-tenth of the population of the country at present only consumés ano-hundredth of the foreign 1m- ports.
Fertile and Beautiful,
The provinco1s a very loruro and beautiful one. The Szechuan- ese are no less Industrious and. thrifty than the Cantonese, or tho people of Kingsu.. It is true that the provinco has suffered much from a sort of warfare due to the
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