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THE BOOKSHELF

(By "Librarian.")

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

unless Mr. Luptan's judgment is altogether at fault, it is arill truer that he cannot afford to do without

The author calculates that »00,000 would be needed on score, and be thinks that the

provide

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до

EXCHANGE.

(Opening Rate: closing Rate on Page 1).

I/T

Liovernment of Indis ought to Demand THE WAY TO A HAPPY

Το looking INDIA.

30 d/s 30 dis In the Far East, as is natural, enormously increased yield from! we are apt to be preceratled with the land. That Government finds We shouldjitself sorely pressed financially, Chinese questions. not forget, though, that in another and mainly owing to this very part of Asia is a country second question of land revenue. It is

Here

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only to China in number of in-felt that the cultivators cannoli TF India........

abitanta country which constand an appreciable increase of Demand. India

3r. Lupton T/T San Francisco) tains an enormous proportion of taxation the total population of the Britishpoints the way, and, while the Empire. "Happy India," by Mr. Jaum mentahed

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mand, Germany. Jemand. New York 56-1 FIT Bombay

& New York tge in the IT Jave ... Arnolt Lupton, formerly M.B present state of Indian ancest

woul! e pastified France fora Lincolnshire constituency, the atlay

Mures, Demand, Paris As a reminder of this abundantle Considering the events of the past; Where Mauli letest Aves.ors, thej other

if parts. eighteen months or so, the title in bas an incongruous sound until Empire as well, at the author can! I mịa LIC 3. L/C we perceive that it represents a obtain anything like a favourable/e. D/P

A direct consensus of expert opinion. It prospect, not a fact.

Melbourne lue to the spirit inspiring the may be added that the data upon 19 dis. Sydney and treatise (which is published by which the calculations are made

leorge Allen and Unwin, price are tabulated in detail.

Whil-

unrest that bas f) is contained in the sub-title. "As it Might Be if Guided by lately agitated' India may be Modern Science." In other days primarily political, the economic at devolved upon me to chronicle factors are of no less importar er. the meetings of an industrial At any time this work would -sociation at Home which the merit careful consideration, and author of

volume at the present juncture its theme this

in the has acquired a special import. addressed Frequently

apacity of technical expert. Mr. Jance. Lupton has had both "shop" and

Marco Polo's For academic experience. number of years he was a colliers Travels have probably been struck manager, after which he became by the reference to China's moun: Professor of Mining at Leeds ed couriers and postal highways: University. Than Parliamentary (long since decayed) in the days of ambition seized bim, and as a the Grea: Khan. These institua Saigon successful Liberal candidate he tions are recalled by the Artual was one of those who contributed Hepor: of the Chinese Past Office to the Unionist landslide in the for 1921, which is prefaced by a An most interesting historical outline General Election of 1905. active investigator, he has more Another feature to attract notice recently made Indis the subject is found at the other extremity if of his researches, visiting the the publication, where reproduc country from north to south and tions will be found of all the stamps issued by the Chinese PO. east to west," as he tells us.

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WEATHER REPORT.

in the earlier chapters there is since survey of the generat conditions emergency and commemorative as preliminary to the considera-issues.

Mr. of remedies, and

China, we are told, praraded the tion Lapton seeks to do even-haaded Assyrians, the Persian, and the ustice as between Englishman Egyptians in the establishmenti At first this i and Hindoo. Then, coming to of a postal service. the remedies, the author finds the service, called then, was fori most important to be the need offeficial purposes, but it is claimed i aking the soil more fruitful that a public system was started Taps not mean a back thin the time of a Mink emperor, san..ampaign. The wurker-arejdating back over tive centuries the tony are put st 2 per The waka monsiere if a guild the entire population, and of letter bongs." which under cent of the labouring took the transmission of letters, profusers are engaged in agricul-parcels, and remistances. This ture Mr. Lupton finds the lk is recorded, they did so efficient- troute to be in the matter offs and so economically, showingį fertilisers. Animal manure is far greater enterprise than is highest over S.E. Mongolia and frequently dried for tuel, decancel often associated with the Middle! Manchuria. of the dearcess of coal and wood. Kingdom,"

Cent

Warning Sept. 1d 1h. 57m

Hongkong. Casst Puris, ara - on of magnown intensity worth mies of Le S en 145 Ermoving N W.,

Sp. 151. 1. 39m. -Pressure

It has increased

that they gained considerably a: Weibiwei and For has decreased slightly to node- Inder this beading the author widespread popularity. advocates afforestation schemes this there was need of a national rstely at southern stations. and development of mining. but service, which was first mooted

A typhoon formed yesterday

he lays the stress upon fertilisers, by Sir Robert Hart in 1861 and about 1 miles to the east of including phosphates, nitrate-jeventually instituted, as part of Aparri. A:6 a.m. this morning Maritime Customs Ad-it was in about LaL 36 N. and and the other approved mineral the

tan.

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1st 60,25 inches, against average of 71.03 inches FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District. Forecast.

N.E. winds.

SOLE AGENT,

coast of China between H.K. & Lamocke.

3 Hongkong to

consider-

ably.

X. winds. moderate: Gap Rock........ fair to

coast of showery. South

in 1994. from Long. 125 E, moving W.N.W.Jor form: Mr. Lupton believes tha: ministration,

it

separated.W. pot methods these

would work which woaders. That there is strong in 1911 on China's admission, to

Honkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day. around for his argument may be the Postal Union. Some amusingį judged from the fact that many episodes are related of inch 101 inch. Total since January

the nations! arest in India are yielding only competition when

Eventually 100 B of wheat per acte against service was started. an English average of nearly the former were expropriated.

The statistics for 1921 cell progress. Another source of inadequately tale of increasing utilised natural wealth is India's There are now 637,900 i (over! water power. This potential form 200,000 miles) of road postal f riches has, indeed, only baenicoutes, major and minor, plus scratched, but such an im. steamer, boat, and railway lines. Formosa Channel freshening portant industrial undertaking as bringing the total to 735,000 F the great Tats establishment has In the course of the year "mail given a lead in the adoption of a matter" to the extent of 442,000.- South ruze hydro-electric plant. Often it 1000 (letters, postcards,

was handled. In fras been found that elements parere, &c.)

departments business which at first sight promise most -normous returns are subject rojhas increased by 100 per cent. some ob-tacle that nulliñes their in half a dozen years, Uf course. value. technical considerations there are a foreign Co-Director but the Commissioners, rendering impracticable or too and

of the Chinese "ostly the application of these participation natural forces. Here we bar themselves is attested by a ative

a staff of over 31,000. The results. Observatory, Sept. 15, 1922. engineer experienced

the scheme as quite strained by the Chinese Post vanding

Office, in contrast to those of feasible.

TIME SIGNALS. Mr. Lupton estimates that by purely native-managed, under these means India's erruz! in-takings, surely demonstrate the

The time ball on Kowloon rome could be raised to £1.559, wisdom of the Powers in stipulat-

00.000. The figure, biz as it looks, ing for and of hire in assenting Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 ja modest cough when gauzero, the continuation of Westerm. and 4 p.m., except on Satur-) 15

Europeap the

acalco operation after the impending days when it is dropped at 10 considering India's extent and dissolation of the foreign posts.. aud 1 p.m. and on Sundays: population; but by the Asiatic offices in China sa decided the and Holidays when it is dr pped

at 10 a.m. only. stennant it would mean a remark Washington Conferenc>.

The all is hoisted half mast ati the 55th minute and full mast at the 37th minute. Should the ball fail to drop at the correct time, it will be lowered at five minutes past the hour and the ordinary

аг

able enhance. A spectator might

way that it is tro remarkable; yet,

looking at Intha's resources, one frely at it ought the possible.

Thi at even easily possible. degree of wealth, as Mr. Lupt calculater, would mean that o man, woman, or child of India's three hundred and more million- need go short.

METEOROLOGICAL

In regard to the growth of Barometer.... timber, the Government of India

Temperature.

has at mas taken stock of the Humidity

situation. With respect to coa

Causes.

10

*

Wind Direction

of which the country's supplies Wind Force ... are admittedly great, develop Weather ment lage, probably due combination of relation to fertilisers, which are the chief plank in Mr. Lupton's programme, the cultivator says! he cannot afford them. This is probably true in the sense in which the coltivator speaks, but

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