London, March 30.
Writing in the "Asiatic Review," Mr. J. P. Donovan, the Honorary Secretary of the China Famine Relief Fund, suggests a number of reforms with a view to lessening, if not preventing, such a loss of life as has resulted from the present great famine in China.
He urges the multiplication aad Government support of institutions such as the College of Agriculture and Forestry connected with the University of Nanking. He points out that the planting of trees in the northern provinces of China would not only improve the rainfall, but that in time the forests would become a source of revenue to the State, and a means of productive income for the people.
He also hopes that, under the Republic, the leaders of the Chinese people will make an effort to abolish the fundamental errors of the social system, which makes famine absolutely inevitable, namely, polygamy, the marriage of minors, and the excessive birth-rate ''—Reuter.
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