Our Kachek (Hainan) correspon-
T have lately spent one week in a chapel on the border of the Loi country: this chapel, erected entirely by the local villagers of material obtained within a short distance from the village, is s0 unique a structure that I venture to describe The wood for the supports was cut in the neighbouring forest, and. set into the ground: then the bamboos for the roof were tied on with rattan, and on these were laid the leaves' of the fan-leaf palm with the ragged sides turned back so that one sees only the smooth fan from the underside of the roof, and the ragged streamers are al] on the outside. The walls were built after the roof was completed, and are of bamboo woven with rattan, and plastered over both inside and out with a mortar made of red earth mixed with rice straw. The floor of earth pounded very hard and smooth. Not a nail or any other imported article in the whole structure, which is cool, clean and com: odious enough to seat seventy people. fied his intention to remit a further Y44,000 in negotiable securities through Baron Chinda, the Japanese Ambassador in W
This generous indi lieves that the physical constitution of the Japanese is specially adapted to aviation, and he therefore wishes to develop the art in this country, says the "Japan Chronicle." According to Japanese papers, it transpires that the donor is an Englishman of American origin, named Mr, Robert T. Wanderson [1 Henderson]. His home is in London but he has ® business office in New York. He wished to withhold his generosity from the knowledge of the public, but unless his mame has become unrecognizably mutilated by its re-transliteration from the Japanese, hxe has not succeeded. His means being about ¥1,500.000, he cannot be described as a great financial magnate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.