Shanghai, July 7. city of Shanghai, on an average is sinking at the rate of about one inch every year.
In twenty years' time, therefore, should this settlement of ihe land continue, the whole city will he twenty inches lower than it is today. While this is not a very comforting thought, especially when one thinks of what would happen in 50, 60 or more years' time, a certain amount of reassurance was forthcoming yesterday' fro Mr. J. B, Watson, Chief
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.