Mr. Tong Shao-yi is not alone in his advocacy of provincial federation. The Lushan Conference which General Wu Pei-fu once seemed to favour, was planned for this purpose. ' Provincial autonomy movements have developed at various Actually, in all the political ings of the Chinese peopl the emphasis is on the hsien the province and not on the ni Even in the present war, provin affiliations have overcome. politi ofiliations, as Mr. Chang Chien's telegram regarding the geographical features of the war indicate, A Chinese official in Peking, has' lost face by counter-signing the punitive expedition mandate, because it in-Ives warfare against his native city. His political affiliations and Principles do not save him; his nativity alone matkera, tinguish a citi of Peking by it Ras customs own, even it important mat Impésition of taxes, the tracts, and the constuet In presenting Mr. Tong Shao-yi's point of view, your correspondent realized the importance of Mr. Chi an officer in Tong's 60 years of experience in
ts_of China, including Manchuria and his keen association with progressive movements, An experience such as his is bound to result in fruitful conclusions, fom which "destroy. out between the m provin wuch difference might be pointed 'THE British Registrar-General states in his quarterly returns, just 3 quarter of this year.
There were *|29,711 fewer marriages than in the people whose habits. are Inst quarter of 1923, In the first, him, where every one quarter of the year 1921 there were struck with the peculiarity of his face, Tanguage, and manners. There ts. no: 176,198 marriages; 1922, 50,382; 1923, thing surprising in this when it is con= 53,281; and 1924, 40,995. The births sidered that the "Chinese. Empire. is Sompexed of 4" naber of Kingdoms, lending June 28, were 187,157—the Various princes, and roled by distinct lowest recorded in any second quar-legislation. These nations, though ter except during the war. Mule more than cneeuntited, hive never babies were in the proportion of fSembined to closely Lut Uiat an obeers-ing. eye could. detect the diferent 3,047 to 1,000 females, but 1,069 clements composing the Vast who males died to each 1,000 females.
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