In past years certain important members of the Government have made Kuling their recognized head= quarters in refuge from' Nanking's summer heat. This year the ministries, as a whole have formally transferred themselves to Kuling which may be said to have acquired the status of China's Hil Capital, Now with the "End of the Great Heat" duly passed on the calendar the scene of official activity is again Nanking. establishing summer headquarters, the Government is following well: esteemed precedents elsewhere and they have the further justification in. the knowledge that experience shows economical advantages in giving stars the opportunity to avoid the extreme rigours of the heat. Unfortunately other forms of labour, intellectual the reverse, are tied' to the plains and cannot so {0 soar the empyrean, Judges have to distinguish between the grain and the chaff of learned counsel, merchants have to devise means for stirring the stagnant cur~ rents of trade and journalists have to make bricks without straw, in the same Low level as is assigned to them all the year round, They endeavour to stifle the feeling of envy at the more spacious opportunities afforded the hardworking government official. They may be helped by the thought that he does not have their excuse for 4 health-giving holiday and that twice in a year he has to endure the horrible "tortures of packing and Uunpacking his office files, Dr. H. Hi. Kung, Minister of Finance, arrived in Shanghai on Customs cruiser Wenhsiei Kung is seen coming ash August 30 from Nanking in the and was greeted at the Navking Road jetty by local Chinese officials. Dr, }0re while below Is the Customs vessel alongside the jetty. Dr. Kung has been in Kuling and flow from Kuling to Nanking.
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