Tigers are by no means unknown south China and the story that tone has appeared in the vicinity of Kowloon is in no sense anything ott a big. increase as civic facilities were adeed to the aulomatie governmental fluences, and by the middle of 1982 the population was 620,000. The last census in the capital made by the metropolitan police places the inhabitants at 1,009,502, an increase of more than 20,000 over the figure for October. These figures are eloquent testimony to the progressive character of the Nanking "Municipal Administration, While the city is more important politically than commercially, facilities for trade are rapidly ex= panding and the increasing population has increased the demand for indusficiltate movements But also" so aot the: way." ncasure of economy. It is a far oxy bearances of these' animals in the [ial avétles and building mate its" tone: thats apthe British politician of ancther leentury who preached that if all the people in China could be induced to Jadd' three inches to their clothes Lancashire mills would be working Jovertime. Unfortunately for Lancahire, such a happy state of affairs Inever eventuated. - Whatever additional length is needed is being pro-southern colony are somewhat rare. but there must be many China hands who remember similar reports. The ger which was slain in 1014, after having Kkiled an Indian,' "was probably the beast which actually Visited the island of Hongkong in 1013, and was reported to have laid quidly on the Peak for some days fare being developed along Chungshan Road and the new residential district south of the city, Peiping, with its heritage of centuries of ancient crattsmanship, its palaces and gates, is. the city beautiful of China: Nanking, with lis broad roads, its planned govern-Jment and residential areas, is the city modern.
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