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Salaries hat Turn Away. Ambitious Youth.
NANKING WATER FAMINE
A City Dried up and Ruin Threat- ening the Wheat.
Nanking, October 25.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1913.
one-tenth of this loss will mean the outlay of a considerable leum on the part of the Govern-
meat.
The lack of water is, of course,] adding to the general expones of living in the city. The price of |rico is rising. The price of
The annual conference of the National Fe loration of Ulisa Added in the troubles through vegetables has doubled. A drink Teachers was upened at Derby, which the people of Nauking bare of water costs money, and one in the very room where twenty already passed, the eity and sur-ban hardly take a with a
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the danger of a most serious and Daily News widespread drought. Though Nanking is not far from the Yan: gizo, river, yet apart from the Referring to the promise of a mosts that run round the city and National Education Bill, Mr. which ebb and flow with the tides Kenward said that in the past the from the river, the city is depon- A new regulation provides that Pork Sausages Smoked Tongues introduction of an education font for its water supply entirely the fee payable in respect of the measure had been the signal for upon ponds, wells, and cisterns, publ:o performance of singo plnys the outbreak of hostilities bet The water from the ponds is used in the Sailers and Soldiers' Hoto ween various theological factioon, | for watering the many murders shall be $1 per annum and not and in this males of the Churches that are plaated throughout the $120 as previously provided.. educational interests and the well- foity, and is used for washing para -being of the child had either been poses. The number of wells is overlooked or sacrificed.
limited, one well being gonorally used in common by one neigh bourhood, the wall water being mostly used for drinking pur poses.
Dried Up.
The Man In the Street The country," he remarked. "will not tolerate a repetition past experience in this respect, The man in the street has no in- terest in these sectorian controver
During the long period that sies. If the Churches obstruct has elapsed inre there has been educational progress in the alleged any appreciable rain these ponds interests of religious teaching in and well have one by one been the schools, then they must not drying up, until now most of be surprised if, from sheer wear them, throughout the city, are al ness of their souls, the general solutely dry. The first distress public say that religious teaching that was fele was the lack of shall be left entirely to the Chu-water for the watering of the ches and the responsibility of the fields and gardens that flourish Sato be limited to the giving of in the uninhabited parts of the secular education." (Cheers.) city, and it is pathetic to ses In some quartors, he proceed the truckers digging deeper and ed, discussion of the intentions of deepor into these dry ponds in the Government had been marked the hope of getting a few drops by an airy assumption that the of water for their parched p condition of primary education vegetables. People have been was moderately good, and that the going to the wells long before. vital matter was the provision of day in the mornings in order to further facilities for secondary get a lile water for drinking and University education, They
purposes, but most of these challenged this assumption, and furnish no longer any water at all. declared that the improvement of For the most part water is be- primary education was vital foring bauled into the city from the secondary and University educatoats Bround the city-very aud tion.
A Disgrace to the Nation. Mr Kenward complained that in many county areas the qualified
ty. and unattractive looking water. There is a great demand for water earle, the number of which is very inadequat-Ac class teacher was practically number of foreign houses and on existent. The stalling of url
-overal of the mission compounds. schools was a diegraco to the there is no water, the supply -. tion Another evil was the s7eing thus baglu als from the of classes in the primary schools: otside, and horghout the city While these classes exceeder 40 children any plans for the wides-pop a large there
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20 Miles for a Bucketful... But this is not the war Turning to the question of feature of the prevent situation salaries, the President declared Nanking being nearer the river that the time bad arrived when is better off than the surrounding gale. On her death three years
ago it was decided to provide a Hongkong Telegraph. the State must give assistance to country. A friend who has just memorial. Out of the funds China Mail. the local authorities towards the returned from a trip down the collected four Florence Nighting Lane, Crawford & Co, payment of the salaries to tea- Pukow-tientsin Railway reporte ale nurses have been endowed Moutrie & Co., Ltd. chere.
that all along the railway and the remainder of the fund Gaupp & Co. "It is got good for education," the vegetation is everywhere has been used for the memorial Wang Hing he said, "that the teachers should drying up. At Chuchow and just unveiled a
panel U₤ take with them into their claga- Nanhsu there in growing
Hoptonwead, stone, of which THE COMPETITION CLOSES ON 20TH DECEMBER, 1913. roome a sense of just claims approteusion of the fail: Miss Nightingale is represented as YOU U CAN WIN THIS PRIZE! denied and reasonable hopes frus-re of all the "crops. Another trated. It is not good for educa. friend just returned from Lucher-Carrying out the mission of her life. Aliss Rosalind Pagetunveiled tion that the profession of class fu, north of Wuhu, reports that the panel, and the Lord Mayor teaching should be regarded as be en a man carrying two of Liverpool presided over the Cinderella of all the profes- buckets of water suspended from sions. (Cheers.) It is a bad out a pole across his shoulder for a look for the future of education distance of twenty miles, going that the brightest of our boys, and coming. noting the
mengre prospects Refugees are already coming which the teaching profession from parts of Anbai, where the has to offer, should turn to other efferts of the drought have ren-
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Miss Paget nid that looking back on 35 years of nursing work
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more in keeping with the ambiis said by those who certainls Thers is an old legend that the FROM SANFRANCISCO, JAPAN tion of youth."
ought 10 know that unless there is rain within the next week the pinet enth century is to be the age planting of the wheat crop is for woman, and hes it no been eo? BAD EFFECTS OF OZONE. hopeless and that will spelt Shall the twentieth century be the famine for the whole surround-go for words? God forbid."
That was a prophetic vision. Had in their bills of lading for coun- HE PARTNERSHIP existing A correspondent writes to The ing country.
The relief work for those made there ever been ten years of such tersignature and take immediate * between Times-The growing use of ozone as an air purifier and a destitule by the looting is being conferences and lectures and delivery of cargo from alongside. MOND and LOGAN has this restorer of exhuasted human prosecuted steadily. That by the words? If those words were to be Cargo impeding discharge will be day by mutual consent been vitality is likely to receive a women's committen for the wom n of any use thep must be condens-landed immediately at consignees dissolved. check; an adverse report upon is being done so efficiently that it ed into action, and what she want risk and expense. the properties of this gae has junt has attractari widespread attened to know was who was going to Cargo remaining on board been made as a result of Foientifiction. Wealthy Indies in Yang-be the executive in this crusade TUESDAY November, 4th, 1913 investigations conducted on le chow have, sont down a request for the nation. There were plenty signess risk and expense.com half of the official organ of the to the lady workers in Nanking of people to help, but who was Cargo remaining undelivered American Medical Association by to send a representative up there going to do the actual work? She SATURDAY, Nov 4th, 1913 THE undersigned will as from eminent bacteriologists.
to give them a first-hand account was conscious of a change in the at noon. In addition to landing of Share and General Brokers in The report states that, so far as of the way in which the relief public attitude towards the train charges will be subject to storage partnership under the name of the evidence goes, ozone produces work for women is being carried ed nurse, and very possibly this charges.
No fire insurance whatever LOGAN & FASTO, at No. 12 Ice House Street (formerly occupied no reaction in the human organism on, as they themselves wish to was owing to the perfection of the that can be regarded as in any inaugurate a like enterprise. parae's training. The thinking will be effected.
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-W-LOGAN. degree beneficial in wording off The relief committee of the of the nurse was being done for her
B.BASTO. at the above company's godown infectious disenes. On the con- Government has been consulting in the hospital. They were in trary, all appreciable physiologic with the general relief committee hospital so long that they forgot FRIDAY, November 7th 1913 at Hongkong, 1st November, 1913. af changes produced by the in- us to ways and means. It does not to think when they came out. 10 m halation of ozone are distinctly appear, however, that very much She was not sure if they were cot No claims will be entertained of an injurious and weakening has yet been undertaker but better off under the old conditions unless accompanied by short much pre delivery note or list of exceptions Character, Another objection to an investigation by order of the when they had not so much
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