JAMESON, The following speech by Mr. C. D Jameson,—who has been sent to Chioa by the American Red Cross Society to survey the Famine District, snd report on. the Rooeibelity of Famine tion la the wai Valley, was made at a meeting of the tious Kok held in the Committ 4, 16'Kiukiang Road, Shanghai, on October 27, 1811, an and Gentlemen 1 do not exactly know what yon mant to be told about my tri been jesance threogh ie Anhui flood regions, with the object" of studying some scheme by which the country could be drained, and all ordinary floods done away with.
Now, to go into technical details of what ought to be done up there, 1d" of thiok this meeting is the place for fan engineering report, nor am I yet ready to make sach I will merely ray this, servancy of the nyi the preventiog of floods in that region: there is no reason whyetbey should not be done way with entirely, with the exception, of course, of abnormal floods which nothing of man's building could hold back. Mind you, the area covers 30,000 square miles of land, snd the expense would be enormous; bat the amount of land reclaimed would also be enormous. Bat the question of river improvement is s question of a namber of years, and nothing that can be done nom, as far your Committes is concerned, would in any way affect the ultimate reanlt in river conservation; ax that work
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