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AN APPEAL TO THE BRITISH NÀTION:

The following appaal, issued by Dr. Sun Yat Son, has been sent to The Times and other British newspapers for publication:-

Opium has been a great curse to China. It has destroyed more of our people than war, pestilence or famine. Under a Re- publican form of Government it is our earnest desire thoroughly to stamp ont this evil, and to complete the work that has already been done in opium reform. Since retiring from the office of pro- visional President of the Republic I bare given much thought to this question, While I realize that the most important thing is to stamp out the cultivation of opium in China, yet this is a very diffi- cult task to do without at the same time prohibiting the sale and trade in the drug. With an opportunig to sell at high prices, the temptation to plant is very strong, and in such a large country, and under present conditions, it is almost impossible to stop it while permitting the sale of opium. We must make its sale and traffic illegal and we can then stop its cultivation. At present we arc hindered in this because of a treaty with your country, Remembering with grate ful appreciation what you have done for me, and for my country in the past, I appeal to you for further help to stop this sinful traffic now at the beginning of our now national life. We ask you in' the name of humanity and in the name of righteousness, to grant us the right to prohiibt, within our

own land, the sale of this tearful poison, both the for- oign and the native drug. We believe that with the sale made illegal, wo tan soon put an end to the cultivation. I make this appeal to you, the British WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. People, on behalf of my fellow country-

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A WONDERFUL ISLAND.

INHABITED BY 8,000,000 BEDS.

An interesting painting is nearing completion by the artist, Charles A. Cor win, of the Field Museum, Chicago, who went to the famous Layaan Island, in the Pacific Ocean, said to be populated by myriada of birds. The story told by Mr. Corwin about this island is instructive,

for it deals with something now. The Chicago Record-Herald prints this inter- view:-

We were warned of our approach to the Laysan Island by the dense cloud of birds that swarmed about our ship early in a morning of last May," said Mr. Cor. win."It has been established that the island is inhabited by at least 8,000,000 birds, most of which consist of two species. of albatrons. We saw two palm treas that had been planted there several yeara ago by a guano company, but when we arrived the place had been. deserted by human beings for two years.

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buildings that had been rendered unin habitable by Japanese poachers who were captured there some time ago by the Ame rican revenue cutter Thetis. There were so many birds on the ground, nesting, that we had to crowd our way through to | avoid stepping on them.

"They are not at all afraid of human beings, and in fact seem to take a war- like attitude when humans attempt to invade their domain. The island is only two miles long and a mile wide. In the centre of it is à lagoon of about 200 acres. The rocks shelved in this lagoon are thick | ly populated with a species of love bird.

"We can fully verify the stories that those strange birds do have a peculiar dance. As has already been said, their dance reserables the negro cakewalk. They clap their bills together and waddle about with high stepping antics, ducking their heads first under one wing, then under the other. All through the dance they whistle and utter weird sounds.

TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

According to statistics recently publish ed, the Trans-Siberian Railway is coming into remarkable favour with travellers to and from the Far East, owing to the great saving in time resulting from the use of this overland route to China and Japan. During 1910-the figures for last year have not yet been published-5,022 passengers took through tickets over the system be tween European ports and cities and China, Japan, and other Eastern coun- tries, the total receipts amounting to over £139,000. This representer an increase of 36.5 per cent. in the number of passen- gers and 38 per cent. in the receipts.com. pared with 1909, and the traffic would doubtless have been greater but for the plague. What is especially notable about the Trans-Siberian route is the extent to which passenger traffic between Germany and the East is developing. In 1910 the number of through passengers between Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, and Frankfort and Harbin, Vladivostock, Tauruga Nagasaki, and Shanghai increas ed nearly fourfold as compared with the previous year.leng

Negotiations are now in progress for arranging circular tours, travellin vid Siberia in one direction and returning by way of the Suez Canal, or vice versa.

It is hoped to complete the doubling of the Trans-Siberian Railway west of Lake Baikal this year, and the construction of two cut-off" lines, one of which in prac tically finished, will shorten the journey between St. Petersburg and Omsk, vid Perm and Ekaterinburg, by about 170 miles. It is anticipated that when these improvements are completed, and with in- greased speed, the journey from Paris to Peking will only occupy 93 days.

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