Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy the Premier's new Park will come barely in time to preserve the European brown bear, which has disappeared almost entirely, even from the district over which it has been the presiding deity, the Swiss canton of Berne. The great European vulture, the lammergeier, which has come down through history with the accumulated guilt of centuries for the crime of killing Aeschylus by dropping on his head a tortoise, is also in danger of extinction...
About the position of the Canton Government there seems considerable, doubt. Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen entered into agreement with Chang, although he gave the latter no assistance, and the arrival of Cantonese troops too late to ward off the disaster is regarded by some as a case of "double crossing". In any event, Wu is very popular in the south. Sen's agreement with Chang was fiercely opposed by many Canton leaders, and now that Wu has won there seems a strong possibility of a really united China...
Further information may be obtained from Dr. C. K. Edmunds, Care of Trustees of Canton Christian College, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City...
...spirit of China's students is also shown by their public campaigns against gambling in which the women students took a prominent part, and the fact that although according to ancient custom it was a dishonor for a student to work with his hands, the students of Canton Christian College,-coming even from well-to-do families, when they wanted a swimming pool dug it for themselves...
...serves to show the popularity of this better means of transport. Another striking commercial example is the rapid evolution that has been brought about in the silk industry in the province of Kwangtung. By means of lectures and demonstrations and by special courses for silk producers given at the Canton Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs of the silk worm have been distributed to the local farmers, and an entirely new method of reeling the skeins has been adopted, so that within the last two years 80 percent...