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During the past your a wonder. D. News calls attention to ful work about which Hongkong

the many uinisterial changea and the outside world generally has known all too little has been going on at that little coral reef in the China Sea-the Fratas Shoal. Twolve months ago thila barren reef was visited only by passing fishermen and Japanese who ocensionally went to, gather, shells and a certain seaweed which possesses rare medicinal qualities:

This shoal now has on it a high powered wirelous station in full operation which will undoubtedly prove of the utmost value to the mercantile marine and to meteor- ological science

The man mainly responsibio for the erection of this station is Mr. C. W. He who now pro- ceeds to the Paracels group, on one island of which he will os- tablish another wireless station for the Chinese Government,

The necessary apparatus on the Pratas is housed in a fine build- ing of reinforced conercte, built under Mr. Hau's direction, and there are also two huge wireless masta and a lighthouse.

ables with

As is well-known during the period of construction work was sadly hampered by illness, due to ables. Since the time the statiun a lack of fresh foods and veget

was more or less complete efforts have been made to stow veget. a certain amount of success. Other experimenta are being made and promise woll. In addition colonies of duck and geese have been taken there. They five and flourish in the thick growth of bushes on the island, the only drawback being that when they are wanted for table they have to be hurted.

The instruments at the station ure of the Intest type and the is land is in constant communien- tion with Shanghai, Mukden and Japan and of course with Hong- kong.

ireless Telephone.

Shanghai in fact is linked up with wireless telephone and it will be easily possible for the station to pick up messages from England. Its sending range i 12,000 miles.

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To have, made such a trans- formation in the middle of the China sea in a year is a tremen- dous feat but it is a fact that had not certain delicate instruments been unfortunately damaged in landing the place would have been complete in a little over eight months, the rest of the time being taken up in getting new in- struments from Europe.

Throughout the year the work- ing party has been fighting against bad weather conditions. It took over two months to land the --- tons of material, for the steamer could not get close on account of coral reefs, and whonever, bad weather brewed she had to move off and either stand in to Hongkong or else go further, south. Mr. Hau himself was several times prevented from. landing after a visit to Hong- kong. At one time he went down three times, BOW Pratas but could not make a landing and had to return.

Danger of food supplies running short is almost nil. "At all times a three months supply of provisions is on the island and during the monsoon season when typhoons are likely to be provalent an eight month's supply is there.

The little faland has now 40 In- habitanta, all Chinese, the opera- tors being mainly drawn from the Chinese Navy

It would be difficult to estimant, the value of such a station. It. will be able to gather and dia- tributo weather information, alt oyer the Far East and only those who have been to the shoal and seen the skeletons of ships on the surrounding coral reefs can ima- gine how valuable will the light- house, and wireless station be ta the hundreds of ships which stea a up and down the China Sea. The light has been working since the. middle of October and its first tests were made guly a little over

a month after the necessary builds

ing material was landed. The Hight has a geographical visibility. of gighteen and a half miles..

Several thousand inhabitants of the little town of Bacau, Rumania, have been rendered homeless by n disastrous fre which broke out in the working class quarter there, and destroyed 500 bouses.A number of factories were algo burned down.

Britons are in no small degrot interested in Brench politics, In asmuch as France's ability to pay her War Debt to Great Britain o dependent upon the stability of the Froach franc and Franco's

nancial recovery, which in turn can only be brought about by tran- quility in French political circles tide, therefore, to be hoped that your cingularly interesting lender under the above caption read and pondered over by ar sober-minded British, renders your esteemed journal

In your opening observation, you refer to the largo number of French Ministries that have come and gone duur the past few yours. In this connexion the for- lowing table may be of interest to your renders

Two years ago found the 14- bourite M. Herriott In office as Pre- mier with M. Clementel, as Finance Minister. Since then, the follow- ing changes have taken place:

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Herlott resigned, April 10, 1926, M, Palaleva resigned, October 27, M. Painleve appointed, April 16, 1925.

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FINANCE MINISTERS: M. Demouzie appointed, April 4, 1925, M. Demeuzie resigned, April 10, 1925. M. Calllaux appointed, April 16, 1925. M. Caillaux resigned, October 27,

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