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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TE, 1993.

O. B. BEER

PRODUCE OF MANILA.

GANDE,

UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY

PREMIER BAER NOW ON THE MARKET.

SOLE AGENTS.

"CHINA'S SURROW* CURBED AT LAST BY AMERICAN

· ENGINEERS!

eliminated, as clamly as a surgeon would remove a useless and irritating appen- dix. With the co-ordination that comes with applied science the progress, of theso colossal surgical operations moved ahead simultaneously. All the while the TSINAN. November 3rd.

Yellow River dragon threw its forces The happiness of three hundred thou sand persons in possession of their into the struggle. It sent down flood homes, recovered to them from the bottom aters, and when they failed it threw of a great sea of flood waters by the into the breach great ice packs, which wizardry of modern engineering science Testled with and battered against the was easily sufficient basis for the great diskes and groins. But they held. The

pile driver function given here yesterday to celebento mechanical Balon les mastery.

moving irresistably against the river's Two years ago, in August, 1921, the foot Oregon Piles into the river bed. Yellow River broke through its northerly attacks Behind it came the creeping dyke near Li Ching Hisien, flooding barrage of $3,000 yards of rock ballast, 1,800 square miles of rich farm land held in a framework of piles, then came the mouth of the river and rendering the reinforcements in the shape of kaol 300,000 persons homeless and destitute.ang packs to defeat seepage, the river's To-day the River is switched back on last hope of success.

it

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a new and safer course, the flood menace

The its 75

Tronically the river that fought, the

at that point has completely vanished engineers, carried, from 120 miles up and the gladdened people are returning to stream, the rocks with which they de their homes to begin anew a life struggle feated it. In the end four miles of dams in a region to which an unkind destiny and dykes. threw their weight into the has contributed more than the usually struggle and at a given moment the river was asked to surrender the night by re allotted share of human sorrow

For 4.000 years of recorded history the treating through a prepared course eight Yellow River has devastated buman, life miles long. On May 15th, 1923, the and progress along its changeable courses Yellow River was let into the new course, over that great alluvial plain, which geo and accepting defent with good grace, logista tell us was cons ago a great helped its victors by scouring a deeper Inland Sea, with the mountainous parts and larger channel on its new journey of Shantung merely a large island off to the sea in an old bed which it had the coast. During this time it swept its itself long since despised and abandon- millions of tons of loose soil down from ed.

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CELERATION OF VICTORY.

P.&O.BANKING CORPORATION

"It was this victory, then, that hun- and inexorably throwing up in its path

huge silt barrier, until it filled the dreds of Chinese and foreigners from At the many parts of Shantung and China, Inland Sea and thereby joined the Shan- tung Island to the mainland.

brato. same time the stream, baulked and assembled in Triannfu yesterday to cele header off by its own bandiwork, and the mountainous country ahead, bored its way first to the north then to the south of the Shantung mountains, wherever its waters found a line of least resistance. And at each of the ten or more recorded alterations in its path it scoured the countryside with soil, over building its almost insurmountable bar- riers, to thrash back again and again in desperation, devastating human life and property nad laying waste great areas in yellow desolation.

THE BATTLE OF CENTURIES.

And still men fought with in: Equip- ped with but a meagre knowledge of hydraulic science men have grappled with this writhing creature of the western watersheds since before the dawn of his- tory. They fought against it, with it and for it, ever digging ditches, build ing dykes and struggling to confine, it But despite to a reasonable course. their battles, their coaxing, their primi Live appeal to the Gods, the Water Dragons and the Turtles, whom they charged with breaking down the dykes, this not only great but powerful elemental thing sloughed through their dykes, fill- ed up their ditches and laughed at their Gods.

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(INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND 1930) with which is affiliated THE ALLAHABAD BANK, LID.,

SUBSCRIBED AND PAID UP" AUTHORIZED CAFTITAL RESERYE FUND

£5,000,000 £2.504,160 £115,000

HEAD OFFICE 122, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. a WEST LONDON BRANCH: 14-16, Cockspur Street, London, S.W. 1..

EASTERN BRANCHES

Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai.

The Corporation undertakes General Banking and Exchange Business of every description and addition to ite Branches has Agencies in al the principal Cities of the world.

„C. CHAMPKIN

Manager. 22. Des Yajax Road Central, Hongkong.

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. INCORPORATED.

HEAD OFFICE: NEW YORK CITY.'

INTERNATIONAL BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL

THE FAILURE OF CHINESE METHODS, Following this 1921 break the Chinese of Shantung, led by their progressive Civil Governor, General Hsiung Ping Chi, were face to face with the repeated failure of the old Chinese methods and determined to call in the aid of the West to help solve their problem. Even then it was not without some doubt that they entertained tenders from a foreign firm, for there was still a root prejudice against foreign methods. It was held that foreigners had but a few decades experience to guide them, whereas China had 4,000 years and more. The foreig ers would ask much money, they would throw much of it away, since they were great spenders, and in the end their efforts, experimental as far as Chins was concerned would; without doubt, end COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT. in no material benefits. These and DEPOSIT AND CUREENT ACCOUNTE

FOREIGN EXCHANGE. similar gloomy forebodings were among

LETTERS OF CREDIT. some of the things with which the cur ageous, Civil Governor and his associates

TRAVELERS CHEQUES. were faced.

LETTERS OF CREDIT. STEAMSHIP PASSAGES. HOTEL RESERVATIONS

Eighty Offices are established in the Princips Cities of the World to provide Commercia Organisations and Private Individuals with complete World Wide Banking, Shipping and Travel Service.

BAGGAGE INSURANCE.

But the doubters werd son due for a series of revelations. Upon examination of the tenders it was found that: the foreign firms bid was more than one) million dollars under than the lowest Chinese bid. The Chinese tenders wore based on the old methods. The foreign en the modern. Here was astonishment. The Province of Shantung would have

Every approved Banking Shipping and bad to pay the lowest Chinese, bidder

P. J. VANHECKE, nearly three million dollars, but the for: Travel Transaction. eign bidder asked only one million and a half. It was a chance not to be idly dismissed. It was a chance for the

people of Shantung to see what foreign, modern science could do for them and at

CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANCES, PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE

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a marvellously lower figure than by their RUSSO-ASIATIC

own ways and means. On November

22nd. the Civil Governor signed a CO CAPITAL (FULLY-PAID) tract with the Asia Development Com-REVE FUND

Mazayer.

BANK.

Boubles. 65,000,000

46,960,000

Kap. The

3,500,000 1,750,000

HEAD OF FLUX: Faria, Rue Boudresa

LONDON BITICA:

pany, and in December of the same year, CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED BY THE

CHINESE GOVERNMENT for the first time in history foreign science was applied to China's greatest Brazave FUND material problem...

The price was not the only revelation in this contract for the Chinese marked with continued, approval and pleasant natonishment the speed and workmanlike manner in which the foreign company

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of the struggle, was also not last upon observers, for here was the advanced science of the West on trial for the first time in a court of conservative, skeptical

judge and jurymen. Would the West Develope

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succeed? Would it fail? And in the an swer probably lay the destinies of China's, own people for if the West should fail then it would throw back the scientific advancement of this people. possibly tie en several decades, and at the same time, NEW YORK: The Irving Bank-

Trust Company.** lose for the West the "natural part it

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BRANCHES IN ABLA 1 - THE SUCCESS OF THE ACCIDENT.

Changchen Hankow Manchouli Tintain

Harbin Newchwang Uramtchi But the Wert succeeded. Guided by

Chefoo

Yokohama modern trained engineers and aided by Dairen Hongkong Peking

Kashgar Shanghai their appliances 25,000 labourers were r thrown into the battle against this Great obstructing yellow destruction. arms, alter the mauier of a giant traffic policeman, were thrown across the traffin, huge channels, one a mile the other seven miles long, were cut across the country, long, impregnable dykes were stretched over the plain and without hesitation a great twisted bend of the river, was

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ERCHANDISE

All Purchasers of Goods up to 53 Value in Cash will

FREE

be given a TICKET to the Star Theatre.

OPENED

KOWLOON HOTEL BUILDING.

Everything for the Musician..

BICYCLES

LADIES' GENTLEMEN'S OR TANDEM

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MANUFACTURERS

Of Hand-made Chinese Linen Drawn-Work and Embroideries, Dealers in all kinds of Silk Goods of the Test Quality; Clany, Filet. Venetian Point, Honiton Point, Renaissance Point, Irish Crochet Laces and Collarettes, Waists and Dresses from the Latest French Patterns, Mandarin Costumes of Various Designs, and Pewter-Ware.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

Inspection Cordially Invited.

Telephone 3303.

A Galaxy of Bargains.

MADAME FLINT

Desires to bring under the NOTICE

of the Ladies of Hongkong that

MADAME LEMAITRE

has arrived from Paris with a consignment of the latest

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PARIS CREATIONS

including Race Frocks, Evening Frocks and Winter Frocks. MADAME LEKAITZE, who is well known in Hongkong, has spent Six Months in Paris devoting her time to a special study of the newest and moet fashionable creations as shown in the Paris salons, and will in future be in charge of the Ladies' Dressmaking Department at MADAN FLINT's...

From To-day the Patrons of MADAME FLINT will be able to bave any class of material made up under the supervision of MADAME Lemaitre, thus placing the latest fashion ideas within reach of the most sensitive puree.

MADAME FLINT wishes to inform her customers that "MADAME JRANKE BUBACHAZET is no longer connected with the firm.

GREAT REDUCTION SALE

SWATOW DRAWN WORK

SILK EMBROIDERIES

MAH-JONGG SETS,

ASD

BAND-MADE LACES

IVORY WARE

MANDARIN COATS

All Kinds of LADIES FANCY GOODS.

CHRISTMAS IS FAST APPROACHING

Those desirous of obtaining

VALUABLE XMAS GIFTS

Should not fail to Visit

SWATOW DRAWN WORK COMPANY,

16, Des

Voeux Road Central.