When it is understood that in peace ime China has to import all her oil and 16 per cent. of her foodstuffs it will be realized that indifferent moun-ain roads cannot solve the problem xf her war-time military transportation But tucked away in the more inaccessible parts of Kwangsi and Szechuen provinces are sufficient arsenal machines to supply China with infantry weapons and ammunition. By splitting her armies into small bands who can live on the country, China can copy her Red Army, which defied annihilation for en years, and is now a growing thorn in the side of the Japanese in North China. Thus, if Hankow falls one zan still believe in Gen. Chiang Kaishek's courageous words and feel hat the Chinese will enter a new war period when new tactics will be tried on the foe, whose modern military equipment will no longer completely outweigh China's numerical superiority.
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's plea for Sanctions against Japan is natural enough, but if granted it would have little effect on the outcome of the war. Russian experts consider that Japan holds a two years' supply of all warlike essentials for a major war. The future trend of hostilities in China will not reduce this stock For those who wish to see what a menace the white ant is to society. Messrs, Jardine Engineering Corp. Lid, have in their showroom windows, at 50 Yuen Ming Yuen Road some exhibits varying in size from the insect's egg to a large beam that has been so badly eaten that it was no longer safe and had to be removed from a building in the Central District. Other items of interest are specimens of various white ants, or termites as they are called scientifically, and sundry articles ruined by these insects which include a shoe a book and a currency note.
White ants thrive best in a warm humid climate although they continue their destruction through the cold months. In each colony there is one queen who, during her life of five years, lays on an average 80,000 eggs every day. Although termites are being hatched all the year round, i is only in the spring and early summer that they emerge from the egg with wings, which are shed after swarming, and these are usually the only occasions when the insects are noticed by the ordinary householder Except for the queen, white ants become either soldiers, nurses or workers and die a few weeks later The damage to property is caused by the workers in preparing the food for themselves and the others by eating through that contains cellulose, ce found in wood. and its derivatives like paper, and in animal products such as clothing furs and carpets.
White ants are increasing in the world and in the United States, for example, where they have always existed in the south, they are now spreading northwards. It is only in comparatively recent years that the extent of their activities has been realized and in the United States alone the amount of the damage that they do annually is estimated to be 337,000,000.
After considerable scientific research means has now been discovered of exterminating white ants. The method consists of infecting the queen with a fatal disease that quickly breads to the whole nest.
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