the occasion of his seventieth birthday Mr. Lin Sen, the President of the National Government re-
Other measures taken by the authorities include efforts to import some rice from down river, but the low state of the water above Ichang makes transport at present impossible. "Until eelyed many congratulations in the river rises thig situation will not the tender of which this journal Improve, it is thought, for until then ventures to share, Since: 1952 Mr. it will not be practicable to get food Lin' Sen had effectively filled the into Szechuen from outside. A good dignified office which enables him to harvest next summer would De a fect as the mouthpiece of the Govern-godsend and to many it seems to be ment in its most representative cathe only hope of saving the province city, part, from political contro-from. "a desperate predicament. versy. A Fukien man—he was bora Obviously the improvement of com-In Foochow—Mr. Lin Sen has travelmunications must dislocate" the lea and was for some years resident economic structure of districts which Ju Criufornia where he completed his {in the past have relled on the slower eduettion as a young man. He reform. of traffe producing longer turned to China in 1911, having joined Journeys for_an important source of the Kuomintang when he was livelihood, This will be subject to America and became an elected. se-adjustment in due course as the nater of the first Parliament. "In 1027 opening up. of communications hho was appointed to the Central Poli develops the means of fostering inter. teal Council as a representative of provincial trade. In the meantime Chekiang but soon resigned on. the authorities are clearly faced by a coming "a member of the Overseas terribly dificult problem and their Affairs Commission st Nanking. efforts to institute measures of relict has been on the State Council since deserve to be fully supported and, 1028. "His elevation to his present of-where necessary, reinforced, fice took him from the Presidentship of the Legislative Yuan to which he had succeeded on the resignation of
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