In Japan, and in many another country, the opinion is prevalent that so far as her food supply is leon cerned, Chit a self-sufficient, Hidetaké Teranishi,,2 Japanese colonel of the reserves, declares. that this is a fallacy" and that China to-day is far from able to feed her own popal without importing food materials from abroad. He points out that the anual importation of American flour into China reaches $10,000,000, and hho contends that the shortage of {cod is acute. The increased grow-jing of: cotton and mulberry trees, he sets down as the main reason for the decrease in the cultivation of rice. "The growing of sugar-cane and tobacco yield better profits, and under the present cireamstance, the further development of _rice tarmiing seems to be almost hope-lees," he- says.
Colonel Teranishj insists that his conclusions "have been arrived at only: after'a "careful and laborious Personal investigation of the: situa:
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