General Feng Yuchsiang has been lecturing to the students in Naning University and is speech is recorded in the Kastern Times of the 0th instant. He began by expatiating on the immensity of the territory in the great North-He pointed out that, for in-in Kiangsu and Chekiang a (Shanghai is a District city) comprises a territory something over twenty miles in extent but in Kansu there are Districts Tunhwang which is 210 miles north and south and more than 400 east and west, This is all fertile land, capable of producing iee and with largo trees whose girth would require three men to span. There are wells producing rock oil, little inferior to that imported from foreign lands into China, and plenty of coal, iron and other metals, "You see" he said ''what_a good land our ancestors have handed to us and we who are their descendants have not been able to make any use of it, The wars of the present time are all the possession of just those morals which we have in such abundance and, for lack of com-Taunieations, leave buried in the ground. ere in the South we are over-populated but in the Northwest fre great spaces where one may, travel for days and hardly meet fellow traveller. Here we are straitened for houses to shelter our people: there is an abundance of large houses with no one dwelling in them and falling to. pieces for Jack of care, There are wide etches of fertile' land around Ninghsia which was densely por palated in the days of the Han dynasty (206 B, C145 A.D.) and {is now desolate without inhabitants, In fertile oases in these provinces are even to be found many inde-Pendent kintedoms with police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction.
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