Kueiyang, Oct, 31. instal lamps in busines and pri-vote houses for about $ 1.50 per month per lamp, in addition to the! initial cost of wiring, ete., the light being on from @ pin. until after midnight. For those who have a Wight at their front door the cost will be cut by one-half, as passers-by get the benefit of the light. Apart from most, if not all, of the public 'a number of houses are getting lamps.
The North Gate (between the old and new cities) has been pulled down and now the street, both. inside and out, is being widened very considerably, a large number of houses being demolished. It is that in and around the Moon Gate (the small semi-circular outer wall guarding the gate) there is to be a. Public garden with a bronze statue of our present Governor-General, Chow Hsi-chang, in the centre. The cost of this statue is to be met by. the contributions of business mon in the province. Certainly, Gen. Chow has deserved well of the people, if only by suppressing the robber bands which infested the province, Although the street-widening from the Governor's office to the new West What form is such intervention to] take? Dr. Takayanagi thinks that] first of all, the League should call the attention of the major warlords} of China to the fact that their perpetual squabbles, resulting in chaos and in the failure of China to perform her international should cease, national treaties are not respected. It this advice is not heeded, then the League should sanction armed interference. This may _sound formidable, says the writer, but it can be done with the greatest effect] and least trouble by' declaring the Yangtze, say from Shanghai to} Hankow, or Chungking, to be a neutral "zone for some years. Foreign men-o'-war must guard the] zone and prevent any hostile concentrations of Chinese troops or any attempt to. eross the river. Since, even in normal times, the men-o'-war of the Powers are on the Yangtze, Dr. Takayanagi thinks that, by organizing, it will be very easy to anticipate the crossing of the river! by Chinese troops and to prevent the average The carry-over at the end of October is 4,770,000 koku, or 23,850,- 000 bushels.
On the basis of this carry-over, and the new crop estimate, together with the Korean and Formosan plies, the total visible supply is estimated at 74,380,000 Koko or; about 372 million bushels.
Against this total supply, the demand is estimated as follows:
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