is not only in the air but isin being. A large and comprehensive scheme is now under the consideration of the Ministers in Peking and is being backed by everybody and every corporation concerned; essentially the scheme is the creation of the Tontsin Chamber of Commerce, and will issue ina permanent Conservancy if approved in high quarters. In the meantime the Tientsin Provisional Gorernment has taken up a part of the work on its own initiative, and has instructed its inoer {to make a great cutting at the ad of the Tientsin Reach. The work is in hand: it is to cost Tls. 100,000 and under favourable conditions will be ready to be flooded next winter. It will obviate the two worst shallows and comers of the str it i
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