The mineral resources of Srechuert may be taken as an example of thi Comparatively speaking. the ro vince's vast supplies, though easily accessible have been left untapped '$0 far, and large quantities of coal. for instance, are available, The grea -wells of Szechuen, too, are more than adequate to cupply the whole of western China, The Sino-Japanese hostilities, phy-sicelly speaking have not yet touched Szechuen. But their influence is, none the less, being felt now to a greater ever-increasing degree, tu the far-torn regions of China, dozens of universities and colleges have beet destroyed, have closed or have passes Into the hands of the Japanese.
The famous Nankai University of Tienisin, for example, was recently. embed and destroyed. The University of Nanking, the National Central Unie versity of Nanking, and. Cheloo University at Tsinan Were closed when those cities came into the hands of the Japanese arms.
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