During Forestry Week special emphasis is laid upon the necessity for more and more education in fire prevention, The prevention of forest fires calls for united effort by all who are interested. The effort is being made and is being increased yearly for statistics showing the drain upon the Amerienn timber supply from forest fires have been appalling, despite the extensive precautions taken. to prevent fires. During the past nine years, it is estimated, an average of 47,000 forest fires has occurred annually. An average of nearly 16,000,000 facrés a year has been burned over. At length $20,000,000 a year in property has gone up in the smoke of these fires. These are the ime mediate losses. Indirect losses, in-eluding Inter decay of damaged timber, replacement of desirable species of trees by specieg less deste able but more fire resistant, soil deterioration and erosion, Toss of wild life, irregularity of stream flow, and the'like, raise the total enorm= ously. "More than 90 per cent. of theee fires were preventable so that the need for extensive education campaigns in fire prevention Parers respecting the first fung in the Shameen affair of June 23, 1925, have been issued ax a White Paper [Cmd. 2,626), price 34. This correspondence leaves no doubt, says the "Times," if any were ever felt, as to whether the Chinese or ths foreigners began the firing. Sie [James Jamieson, the British Consul General at Canton, who was an eye-witness of the shooting and narrowly exeaped being shot himself, directly accuses the Chinese, Before the affray he had addressed to Dr. C. C. Wu, the Foreig Secretary "of the Cunton Government, a Note [already made public} that he had Feason to fan attack was to be made on Shameen, and jing Dr. Wu that sures would be taken to gu against acts of lence.
That Sir James' belief well founded is adequately proved by this correspondence, in which is included the translation of 'a leaflet culled "an announcement Jeoncerning the ease of the Shanghai butchery." tis a direct incitement to violence.
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