The present higher Provincial officials are said fo be all ardent Kuomintang men. On the whole they are very young. The Commissioner of Police is thirty-four or five. The Commissioner of Education is not more than 38; the head of the Pr I Bank is about the same age, and many of these men, like the Tupan himself, fare returned students who got, their education in Japan, Honan now a Kuomintang province.
The first appointee of Gen. Hu Chingei to the Provincial Treasurership very soon got in trouble. He had been in office scarcely two weeks before he was arrested by order of the Tupan, He was at Tokyo, Jans 27, Before this is perused by your renders, Tokyo will perhaps the throes of a water famine, It will further be lightless and tramless and a city in which the wheels of industry would' be revolving considerably slower than normally—or the skies will have wept and we shall have passed the crisis, We are having an unprecedented winter drought. Drinking water is already at a premium. The main reservoirs are getting shallower and shallower every day. Hydroelectric concerns are taxing their brains what to do, campaign has already been started by the authorities aimed at securing the ce-operation of the general public in rigidly economixingg water. If the drought becomes duly prolonged and citizens, out sheer necessity take to drinking water out of the moat (which is Just a dirty, open sewer) or the canals which' are no better, a fearful epidemic might cost Tokyo toll of human life as great as that of the 1923, earthquake.
The Kinugawa " hydro-electric company, which is the main supply. of power and light for the city, is already producing a large quantity of its power by means of coal, The same applies to other—hydroelectricity companies. All daylight current for lighting and all night current for industry has already been cut off.
Weather experts do not expect the 8 to break for some time yet, and if snow or rain docs not come we will enjoy a new delight which belongs to the category of carthy quakex and fires. We might also be importing drinking water, even from 80 far as China and Manila. It is, of course, clear that shipping will not be able to get any drinking water at Yokohama,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.