The mineral resources of Szechuen may be taken as an example of this, Comparatively speaking, the pros vince's vast supplies, though easily accessible have "been left untapped so far, and largë quantities of coal, for instance, are available, The great salt-wells of Szechuen, too, are more than adequate to supply the whole of western China.
The Sino-Japanese hostilities, phy-sicelly speaking have not yet touched Szechuen. But their influence is, none the less, being felt now to.a grenter and ever-increasing degree, In the war-torn regions of China, dozens of universities and colleges have been destroyed, have closed or have passed into the hands of the The famous Nankai University of Tientsin, for example, was recently bombed and destroyed. The Ut of Nanking, the National Central versity of Nanking, and Cheloo University at Tsinan were closed when those cities came into the hands of the Japanese army.
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