Fires on the hills are of nightly occarrence. While one has some sympathy with the plea that it is necessary to destroy the brushwood in order to keep the place free from tigers, it does seem a great pity that so many young trees are destroyed year after year by this prodigal method. Perhaps now that America and Britain are hosti themselves to the need of system afforestation, it may soon also occur to the Chinese to husband their scanty resources of timber. A little whi few advanced Ohinese visited Yingtak to see what could be done in the way of opening the constricted Blind Boy's Pass and thas lessening the risk of floods. Nothing has been done so far, bat the fact that such problems are being recognized gives one hope for the fatare.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.