China as a pictorial subject is fun of colour but some of the photographs tse im current publications in Bree fre ludicrous. A reviewer of a book of memoirs. of well-known, British Seman in these ealurins on 'Thesday had occasion to refer to some of th® Ulustrations of "the China' "chapter which "bore ite "accurate _sessem: bance to the incidents described the book, 'They were obviously the {ype wold to tourists, and by a wide stretch of Imagination, could be used, Anothes example is'contained. Ins Fecent issue of the "Dally Mirror" in onnoetion with "an atlicle headed "Suppresting' the Drug Trae" wets ten' By" an American lady-who was formerly Fist Deputy Commissioner of the Depastment of Narcote Drag Gontrot of New York, 'The ust tion shows two Chinese, with heads clove together, smoking pipes and the {dea is obviously to show the evils of opium "smoking. The' llustation, However, shows nothing of the kind. Wie a picture of two Chinese of the merchant lass engaged ina friendly smoke but not of opium." 'One moking '& water' pipe—the ssu yen iuan—in which the big bow! at the 2nd of the pipe 1s filed with water to £00 the smoke from the tobacco other one is amoking the ordinary Chineee pipe which milieus of Chit fae farmers and colles In the interior smoke using" natives grown "tobacco, tug smoked. The opium evil ts series neither ease Is an opium pipe bee
{China and is being energetically eked by the authorities, butt Injustie"to "implicate "two worthy citizens engaged. in a" pleasant Pastime unless the writer Pwishos {o take issue with Sir" James Barrie and include' the solace. of a pipe tobacco among the world's evils. Nanking already has "Depart: ment of Intelligence and' Publielty which operates, at" far" can be fathered, in China only but whet Urgently' needed is &, department Which "wil "supply" information in ther" countries." Another fantastic case, hot in. ihwtration, but Bring, is an article in the "Overseas Bally. Malt" on the ancient crat of the fintemaker described by" correspondent at Brandon, inthe aloe" One "of the statements Live of Mesora Edwards, the Aen who the last two years, a representa
fentrols the industry," told me, they Have ent more 800000 tints to Chian and' "West" Atciea. During'? secant Chinese hostilities thousands of toons ferried' runs Ated with Brandon Such a large number of ints may have "been provided to China but not for military purposes. It is 0 attering reflection on foreign arma~ ment firms that the most" modern military equipment in existence, with possible exception of poison, ges and flame throwing. apparatus, has been sold in large quantities {0 China but it is "a fact, and the belief that armed forces' in China, Government anti<Government, are carrying Aint "locke guns is as far from. the truth a5. the. belief' that pork is roasted la China by putting tne pigs in huts and. burning down the huts. The formidable array of modern rifles, machine guns, artillery, tanks and aeroplanes. puls the Brandon flint-makers back in the dim ages.
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