Practical Conservancy Scheas to Check Present Danger MIN, Jean Hardel, the new Engineec. in-Chief of the Hai-Ho Con-
/servancy Commission has just sued a report on the general conditions affecting the Hai-Ho with an outline of both a temporary and a radical improvement scheme, which Was submitted to the board of the Hai-Ho Conservancy commission at their 349th meeting held on Frida; August 3, 1928. The "N, C. Dail Mail" gives the following conclusion is 6f interest:—
"One may now come to the con clusion, evident in the face of reason, that the main basis of any final Grand Scheme, of any comprehensive programme,, solving the flood problem as well as the problem of thb Hai-Ho, is the use of the water in an irrigation system,
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