That was about two months ago when the summer freshets started, But strenuous opposition was raised to this mode of improving the Haiho fon. the part of the farmers who} maintained that the flooding vf their Tand would mean the destruction of their crops. The farmers even went 80 far as to forcibly interfere with the working of the lock gates, The matter was duly reported to General Vu Houch-chung, governor of the} province of Chibli sent a detach-tment of the Pao An Tui to try and convince the farmers not to inter fore with a public utility work and to go away, but persuasions and to. the absence of General Vu ing for the liberation of India Hjuchcehung, the matter has. been or any other subject nation "from Teft'in abeyance until Nis return to Western domination. tie port." According to Chinese circles, if fs aald that the Gnighing touches to the palliative. scheme Bot. without" significance' that, the Army in Japan, it is perhag Mil'be carried out. by. the North
purely government concern com Thing "River Commigson, hich, the various pamphlets rolled by" Nanking offclals, but published from time to, time by, the ress Section of the Japanese War' this report lacks confirma Office, there recently appeared one the other hand, the of fell an article on "An Asiatic Haiho Improvement written by Lt.-General Aver that Tt is not their fault, itis aifdue to the action of the farmers, in Formosa find that it is-now up to Chinese and formerly chief Military. dele-fMicialdem to. remedy matters.
The gate to the Haiho Conservancy Board did " lot good work in scouring the river nce at Geneva.
League's Interference arguments were of no avail, The} bed of silt and mu¢ farmers refused to bud unless Pow all gone for naught. Tt wou fat and' mod tat th haa they were assured that Tova "hopeless. task to try andre would not be flooded. the end move the silt while the Yune-Chin officinidom gave way, and] how ft into the farmers gained their point, the sult being that the mud and silt of gallons per minute. As matters from the Yungtingho is continually stand at present, it seems that any pouring into the Haiho in such large conservancy work or Improvements quantities that it will require months Of rivers are money-making schemes before the damage can be remedied. more than anything In the meantime, a glance into substantiate this another scheme the" Haiho from the International is now on foot. to improve the] Bridge reveals a dirty yellow mass Yungtingho which is considered to] of water with branches of trees, and be the source of all the trouble, miscellaneous rubbish floating jand that a part of the $50,000,000 the top, and at flood tide the current wheat and cotton loan should be Allotted for this express purpose. is'go. strong that it tosses which maybe floating on, the of stra gid try to make the upper] yolks" i Boonton wok i, the Race hither.
But in spite of all and, thither ike pie this! put, with due One Remedy defere General Matsui, who was one of! the leading organisers, of the re-'Dai Asia Kyokai Association), starts his Interference" in the Sino-Japat dispute, delayed the re-estal ment of peace in the Orient evented the renaissance of A\ with thelt Own psychology of Sol
political philosophy.
Such rales nnd ideas, he. so are perfectly useless for application toy Asiatien; consequenty" it interference by Western nations.
Feaches of the river; some were Tueky, but the majority got stuck on nud banks. Finally, things, got} So bad that Jardines and Butterfield and Swire decided to. stop all their vessels at Tangku. It Yenient for passengers was, better than going" asher Transportation of care, the First or Third, Cattings example, and remaining there for ota tore, for {wo or three dave and sometime more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.