{Schemes Being Devised to Remedy Conditions The silting of the lower Yangtze fs causing the Chinese authorities 0 little consternation and schemes are now being devised with a view, ameliorating such conditions.
According to a statement made by Mr. Ying Ju-ken, chief of the [Navigation "Department of the (Ministry of Communications, to members of the Chinese press, the [Yangtze River Commission ' has submitted to the Chiaotungpy, for approval, a number of amelioration schemes, in the course of which special is drawn to the silting of lower Yangtze. The river is ing to such an alarming extent that it is necessary that immediate stops should be taken to remedy altairs, otherwise shipping will be gractly endangered. Silting cond tion on the lower river, it is said, fare far worse than those in. the upper reaches. However, owing to financial difieuities, work on the feonservancy of the upper river, viz the Hankow. Chingchow section, must first be started, says the Com sion's revert, for, once the com: servancy of the Upper Yangtze is successfully carried through, the numerous rice part of} the country will escape inundation ju the event of floods, The schemes say that the profits The most generally useful Medicine for all Climates ets like chacn:
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