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OUTLOOK FOR COAL AND IRON.

"Coal and Iron in China," by Wilfred Smith, M.A.. Tutor in Geography in the Univer- sity of Liverpool. Hodder and Stoughton.'

YOUNG CHINA,

SOVIET-VOICE IN NEW PUBLICATION.

THEORY OF AMERICAN CLERGYMAN.

"China and the Nations" by Wong "Evolution Disproved," by the

Ching-wai; Hopkins.

Rev. W. A. Williams, D.D.

he

As Wong was the special in- One would like to know more timate of Dr. Sun, and is the of Franklin College, U.S.A.; the chairman of the Governing Com-ingenious ex-President of which mittee of the Kuomintang his disproves monophyletic evolution The results of the Chinese views demand careful. and | in 50 arguments largely arithme- isolation for millennia are many sympathetic consideration. How- tical. He starts with one on the over fantastic under present con- increase of population according misunderstandings and miscon-

ditions some of his proposals may to Hales's, chronology of the ceptions which only time and seem, it is very necessary for Septuagint which is apparently goodwill on the part alike of Britons to endeavour to under-like many other reiterated Chinese and Westerners can re-stand the Kuomintang point of statements to be taken as in- view. The book gives a lucid, fallible. The author has the move, and a widespread ignorance readable if very ex-parte account trick, so frequently found in the of the country itself.

of the dealings of the Powers with atheistical writers he abomin The physical history of China China from 1840 till the present atea, of stating what he con resolves itself into the process of troubles.

siders his opponents must believe the sedimentation of an old It is natural for a patriot en- and then demolishing tenets which geosynclinal bounded on the west thusiast to minimise difficulties, most of them have never dreamt by the ancient massifs of Tibet to realise that his party is not of believing. In spite of endless and. Gobi and on the east, by an master of China and has no figures this generation, will hold equally ancient continent of which monopoly of virtues. It would be a modified form of evolution only remnants now remain. The wiser if he started putting his whatever future views may be, filling in of this Chinese basin. own house in order, paying off the but none the less does it still find seems to have progressed from loans which make foreign super-God at work in the world east to west. Since the Ordovician vision of the Customs a necessity,created. North China, unlike South China, Jinstead of expecting from for- has never been deeply submerged, eigners an absolutely child-like North and South China became trust in wordy protestations of differentiated from then onwards, security. Still enthusiasm can The broad structural divisions (remove mountains, and Young China has admittedly some justi- fication for its intractable atti- (1) The North China Block. -

tude. They cannot help smart- (2) The South China Plateaux.ing under the burdens which (3) The Mt. System of the international loans, manipulated by their war-lords, have laid upon for West.

them, Japan's 21 demands, for- The South China Plateaux jeign demonstrations of force sist of:-

(however inevitable during the

Bookworm is a term of reproach,. (1) The Old Core of the janarchy of Civil War) nor are

uned at random by the illiterate. vessal states surrendered with in-

and only sometimes justifiable; but difference. China, it is announc- the bibliomaniac io not necessari- ed, must never again be insultedy a dull person. Upheld by a Pla-by such phrases as "The Integrity sense of humour, he may be, like of Territory' or, The Open Door Omar. a king of easy livers, the (4) The Basin of Szechuan. Policy Soviet influence surely Jolllest fellow in a crowded square The basins of North Shensi and foreign debts and discriminate master of Time-and if he has lei-

speaks in "We must review our mile.

His is a limitless world. He is Szechuan are the only two re-between those which justly de gions in China which offer petro-mand payment and those which sure to study the second-hand shops leum possibilities.

are:~~~~

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east.

(2) The Central Busins. (3) The South-Western

teaux.

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The largest coalfields of the

Peking Basin, the Kaiping and the

VINTAGE OF TIME.

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Some Curious Books.

Since William Caxton set up his wooden printing press at the Red Pale in the Almanry of West- minster, somewhere about the year 1476. a vast treasure of curious book has added to the gaiety of the nations.

of these happy collectors, and he specialises in the curious things of literature.

"Tracts" is not a title that would

do not." A definition of the rial profits. Mr. W. G. Clifford, his pleasure may return him mate- catch-ery Imperialism will inter-author of "Books in Bottles," is one est every one-The utilisation by Fangshan-Wangping, are both any people of its political and within easy reach of Peking at military ascendancy, for subject once the capital and the focus of ing to its economic encroachment the Chinese Government railway some foreign country or territory system, and of Tientsin, the com- mercial centre. of North China. Near is the smaller anthracite field of Shihmenchai just within the Great Wall. The trunk rail.

a

or race."

ure many. Mr. Clifford reaches it

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned, to look out for occasional phonetto spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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THE INTERNATIONAL SINDICATE.

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43-Perils

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frazon crystals 51-Part of a church

VERTICAL

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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSSWORD PUZZLLS

Start out by filling in the words which you feel reasonably sure There will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in tur

si bothers A letter belongs in each white space, words start att e

bered squares and running either-horizontally or vertically or both

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's, issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

London has no need to make it- self better known-Sir John Gilbert,

Baden-Powell's great work of genius will leave a greater impress on this country than the work of any single British alatesman. Dr. Rouse. the

na-

We have turned a corner in the path of progress, and our ignor- ance stands revealed before us ap- palling and insistent.-Prof. A. S. Eddington.

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down from the shelf and turna the pages to "A New Project for the Destruction of Printing and Book selling for the Beneft of the Learn ed World." Now, who could resist way lines, penetrating south-sumed by local forges for the the volume? We learn that the publication of heretical books ia to wards to the Yangtse valley, to manufacture pf. agricultural im-

be obviated by the simple process of both the Delta and the Central plements,'

battling speech in barrels for Basin, northward to South Man-. The coal resources of the Yang future use. "For," says the author, churia, castward to the Shantung tse lie away back from the arterial "sounds are nothing else but Air, coast and westward to the Mongo-waterway, and of the Sikiang are put in Motion, and striking lian border, have stimulated large-isolated in its upper reaches, so Organe of Hearing." How close

The plus-fours is about as far scale coal mining in nearly all the that the future development of that old Elizabethan was to the iden

as many golfers get with their fields peripheral to the North the coal resources of the South of the talking machine! China Plain. The most important and Centre largely awaits rail pole described "some curious.

In a book published in 1774 Wal-game.-Mr. Denis Bradley. field in Kwangtung is around way construction. Dependence

tive of Lima" who shall visit Lon- Shaochow, in the upper basin of on foreign capital will gradually don and give a sketch of the ruins the Peikiang and overlooked by disappear. The small Chinese of Westminster and St. Paul's, So the Nanling range. Its seams investment of the past has been much for Macaulay and his New vary in thickness up to 20 feet due to distrust of company ad-Zealander. and its couls are bituminous, cok-ministration. Whenever its As far back as 1660 Thomas ing and of good quality. There is administration becomes honest Browne sought a cure for war. In smaller field, the Maoshan,and. confidence in it is establish his "Pseudodoxía Epidemica" he with thinner seams in the imme. Led the joint-stock company is suggests that war-makers should be diate, vicinity of Canton.

likely to be financed by Chinese Daniel destroyed the dragon by a fed on sponges and destroyed;" "As Of all the iron ore fields of capital. The Chinese Bankers' composition of three things; where- China that along the Yangtse has Association has a membership of of neither was poison alone, nor the richest ores and is the most 32 and these Banks of the properly all together, that is, pitch, accessible. But its reserve is modern type finance industrial fat. and hair," Daniel, we learh, small, being estimated by the enterprises. The most conspicuousseethed these together into lumps. Survey at but 90 million tons. success has been experienced by "These he put in the dragon's The Archeau ores of South Man- amalgamated companies such as That is. the fat and pitch. being churia have a reserve of 740 the Kailan and the Fuchung. cleaving bodies, and the hair con- million tons, but they are pre- Such concerns gain the advantage tinually extimulating the parts by dominantly of low grade and are of foreign experience without the the action of one natura was pro- workable only if they can drawback of foreign domination,voked to expel, but by the tenacity be cheaply concentrated. The Japan is likely to depend on the of the other forced to retain. Pre-Cambrian ore field of the coal resources of her neighbour Peking Grid with a reservejas she now does on her, iron. of 92 million tons, has ores of Kailan coal sent to Japan, Korea, rather poorer quality. Extra the Philippines and Chinese ports ordinarily thin castings were has made Chinwangtao the made possible by reason of the largest coal-exporting port of all: high phosphorus content of many the Far East. The foundries and Chinese coals, particularly Shansi the shipbuilding of Hong Kong anthracite. Native Chinese iron are dependent on imported retains some proportion of slag! American and European iron and and ash: Foreign iron can, there steel,

It is hoped that Mr. Clifford will. fore, easily compete with It in the China has only 950 million of general market. Old iron of for the 22,000 million tons of iron oregon bottling" his library in the name manner. The wine is dry, and Feign origin, particularly horse in the world," ["

the connoisseurs should like it'syal, shoes, was imported into the The maps in the pocket are of Books in Bottles," by W. G. coastal provinces and was-con- great value..

Clifford, London, Geoffrey Bles.)

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mouth, and so he burst naunder.

so that the dragon broke in pieces.

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