I regret to learn of the death in Peking of Iis Excellency Chao Erh-sun, who passed away on September 3 at the ripe old age of 84. His late Excellency held the highest posts in the Ching Dynasty, and during' hhis Viceroyalty in Szechuan (1907. '09) was the first to set an example to other officials in ridding that pro-vinea (which used to produce half the opium of China) entirely of the: fatal poppy during the short space of two years. This great statesman succeeded Hsi Liang as Viceroy of Manchuria in 1911, soon after the devastating plague epidemic, and it was to him that our Manchuria Plague Prevention Service owes its establishment, for he!
V. Soong, and Tang alan 2,000,000 people have made their]. homes in these fertile regions, and (Cormerly mayor of the ex-British Concession in Hankow). Wang a result more and more land is: being opened up and cultivated.
Ching-wei was accompanied by Mrs, Harbin, Chang Liu Chung-kai, the widow of the late radical lender. He came back River have all increased in popula-to the South at the urgent request tion.
That of Harbi nearing the fof General Chang Fai-kuei, the "fron General," the radical rival of half.
Thanks to the General Li Tsai-hsin for the mastery good government of the Chinese Railway Area under of Kuangtung. General Tang feng General Chang Huan-hsian chi of Hankow and Wang Ching-wei plete security and steady progress until recently were working hand-fare now assured, ud trade has in-hand, in defiance of the Nanking Government. The "Tron General" ly. In Harbin, electric trams are rum after is an ardent supporter of Wang nearly ten years' preparation, and Ching-wei and expects that he will re-establish the Nationalist Govern-now waterworks for the city are' being planned.
The whole city ment in Canton as it was prior to certainly looks sma and brisker the northern expedition, than during the Russi regime, present, the Chief of Police 'All along the Railway, such towns and the Commissioner of Finance 'Ants Mankou, Suichi har in Canton are followers of General showing' ever increasing signs i-kuei, He succeeded in prosperity because of the unlimited p them in these two import output of hoang and wheat, Man-fant otices when Li Tsai-hsin's men buna is rapidly earning for itself|were away fighting the Rod forces a mame as one of the leading|in Swatow.
Chang apparently granaries of the world, thought that Li's forees eventually would be routed by the Reds and would not return, To his great The following figures show the! surprise, the Canton troops, under number of out-patients treated the command of General "Huang various station hospitals of our|Shao-hung, n staunch supporter of 1926-27.
4370 returned, and the "Iron General" found that his anticipation had gone wrong and his rival was, in fact, more powerful, Total o.++ want The' in-patients at Harbin num bered 570 (213 medical and 357 surgical)." There is still much advanced tuberculosis of the bones and joints, for which only amputation can save the lives of the patients. Many of our people are Still not alive to the benefits of modern medicine,
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