hough the harvest in all parts, of the country is not equally good, yot it, is a striking contrast Maachuria to the failure in so many districts within the Great Wall, Rain came late and there was considerable anxiety in the carly summer. But later there fell abundance of rain, with the result) that excepting those crops which ripen early, the yield in general is} excellent, Nevertheless around Chaoyang in Chihli, cast of Chin-hsien in Manchuria. the crops failed owing to lack of rain.
Crane Tso-ux axp Rervcees.
Thousands of refugees from the famine districts in North China have been brought on free passes by rail to Mukden. There they were expected to fend for themselves, not a very difficult matter for able-bodied men and boys in the harvest season.
Our now. famous Chang Tso-lin has with his usual enterprise planted parties of these refugees on his wide estates near T'ungliaohsien. 80 miles west of Chengchiatun, on the Mongolian plan. The three Manchurian Divisious of the army. the 27th, 26th and:9th, all own jand in this newly opeard region. It is only, however, on the estates of the 27th. Chang Tso-lin's own division, that one hears of the refugees being settled. Doubtless such a policy involves both risk of loss and immediate expenditure of! money in providing equipment for the penniless strangers. In those parts too vain is an uncertain quantity. This year the harvest there is only middling.
Javaxese iN PaxuMen.
Ib is painful to note with regard to affairs in this town that our Japanese friends are not trying to win the respect of the Chinese. That is putting the case wild); Not only are'there about a score of Japanese morphia shops, _imjune from control, but recently a further disgrace has been added to the reputation of the neighbouring} Empire. Hitherto the Chinese demi-monde has been represented by badly dressed, disrepute able looking women. Now we have houses of ill-fame opened by Japanese with Chinese women of a better class in dress and appearance.
There is point in the bitter remark of a Chinese gentleman: "There are only two kinds of business that the Japanese' can succeed in, morphia and women. Among our people. they can make no profit at anything else." The remark is of course untrue, but serves to show that in the interior of this country, the Japanese are:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.