Tested Frost On Own Comaesronoent Dairen, Oct. 24.
South Kiangsi, Oct. 13.
Owing to the lack of rain the second crop of rice hag not.been the "great success that" the "frst ferop "was, though that only holds Food, Tu those places where they 'Sre dependant on the rain fall, The majority of rice farms around this district' are' independent of the rainfall for a few months as thei fields are watered from rivers. and [streams which are not affected 3 Tew months drought.
Recently in order to prevent salt from getting to the bandits. the government took over the sale of Sil salt, and rationed every home in the ety. As salt is very scarce in the bandit area, and they are will ing to pay big' prices for it there was avery great temptation to pit Snimeial "against ficial brains hat ice' the. different "methods And it has-been most amassing
to get past the soldiers guarding the gates, A™ man "carrying Damboo pole out of the ity is an everyday' oceurrance, It is of course going to some. bamboo worker's sentries st passing each day fame. to make chairs, etc, but the and. their suspicious were aroused. They watched closely and noticed that the man carried it as if it were A bullet-proof glass, recently invented by Mr. Kaname Akiba, reszpert with the Japan Glass Ca. of Tokyo, Japan, was tested at Port Arthur by the police of the Two shots fired at the glass from. fa distance of fifteen metres both Indzed in the glass, without break-it. A radius of about half an ich around each spot struck by the ullet was slightly blurred.
Recent tests made in Japan the glass with rifles and machine gans are reported to have produced similar results.
Tt is expected that a large-scale manufacture of the glass will be Undertaken soon, with the military, Jnaval and police authorities as ptineipal buyers.—Reuter.
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