THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925.
The Floods in North China.
Dreary scenes liko this cover miles of country in Shantung and Northern Kiangsu ok a
result of the recent floods which caused in yellow River to break its banks and inundate a
largo tract of land.
Brighter Side In China."
Who said Chinese faces are expressionless? The American sailor in the background has posed these coolic bys, and apparently they find it a joke. The pieturo was taken at Shanghai,
Burial of Prehistoric Race.
Art of the Chopsticks.
The Sweetmeat Seller.
The photographer managed to interrupt the hearty, if
not silent, enjoyment of these song of the soil as they shuffled
the rice into their capacious mouths. It may be a simple meal
to our way of thinking, but eaten out of doors and with the
necessary amount of gusto, it is well enjoyed,
Swoots play little part in childhood life in this country,
-but what doos is a peculiar kind of sugared nut which is stuck
on a small piece of bamboo and gaton from it. Here is a
Chinese boy buying one of these nuts from a hawker who is not
very much older than his customer.
Animated Scene on Shanghai's French Bund.
Now light may be shed on a prohistoric race that in- 1.abited America through the discoveries of H. C. Shetrone of the Ohio Historical and Archnological Society in excavating a mound near Bainbridge, O. Shotrone found four skeletons which apparently had been buried in robes madó entirely of pearls. The photo shows the pilos of poarls around one› skoloton"Indicating the civilization of this perbistoric race; the skulls reated on copper plates, shreds of a beautiful fahilo were found, and one skeleton wore a necklace of big beer tusks,
Many commercial interests are concentrated on the French Bund at Shanghal, which bustles with activity the whole day through. This remarkably fine picture.opone a new vista of photographic possibility as it was taken from the A. P. C. Building. With the War Memorial and the Semaphore tower in the
foreground, the U.S. 8. Huron, flagship of the American Asiatlo Squadron in the river, and steamers passing up and down adding their charters to
commercial history, the picturo is a vivid presentation of progress.
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