At the Chinese Y.M.C.A, on Wednesday Mr. F. R, Sites, of the U.B, Steel Products Ca., gave an illustrated Iecture on "Famous Sights in China." There was an excellent attendance of members and who appreciated very muacn Sites's lecture.
A number of coloured stercoptican pictures, made from negatives taken by Mr. Sites himself, showimg Chinese life, architecture, and landscape, were show! Starting from Shanghai, Mr. es took his audience to Hangchow and &oochow, up the Yangtze River, touching at various ports, and finally reached the Gorges. Going northwards, the audience was carried to Tientsin, stopping at the Tomb of Confucius on the way and_passing over country in Chihli Province which was in 1917 covered by floods and which is now suffering even more seriously as a, result of the drought. Of Peking there is an excellent series of pictures show ing not only the pink walls and the yellow tiles of the old Impsvial gateways and palace but also al Northern life in the streets of Peking.
The lecture closed at the Great Wall, the northern limit of China proper.
A vote of thanks was then accorded the lecturer.
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