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...four years studied the Fundy terrain, is prepared to finance his project without state or federal aid and to devote the rest of his life to its completion. It would cost over 75 millions, he figures. It would take 5,000 workmen five years. The sea walls necessary total over a mile in length and at to upper pool must be 70 ft. high. The power dam is 3,600 ft. To build in the concrete water gates, mountains of rock would have to be dropped in the tideways, some of which are 200 feet deep...
...first copy of TIME that I received, on arrival at Seattle, contained the statement (July 6, Page 11, col. 1) that the shooting at Shameen, Canton, had been done by "angry students and workmen." As I had left Canton the Saturday before the shooting, and was in Hongkong at the time, I am in a position to know that your statement was (unintentionally) misleading. I have talked with an eye-witness from the Shameen side and have heard fully the Chinese point of view from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting...
...begin with, British steelmakers face a strongly unionized body of workmen whose wages are already much higher than those of competing German and French workmen; the British steel workers are now agitating a new pension scheme for themselves, the expense of which must result in higher prices for the output of British mills...
...true that patriots are discontented. On the contrary, the truth is the Opposition is carried on by a small, dispossessed group, while the enormous majority of Italian people works and lives quietly. Please note also Fascism counts 3,000,000 adherents, whereof 2,000,000 are Syndicalist workmen and peasants, thus representing a politically organized majority of the nation. Even the Italian Opposition now recognizes the great historical importance of Fascist experiment which has to be firmly continued in order not to fail in its task of morally and materially elevating the Italian people and also in the interest...
Canton. An angry mob of workmen and students fired on the foreign quarter, Shameen. The fire was immediately returned and several casualties on both sides were reported. After a day's respite the Chinese again attacked and were again driven off. Foreigners erected emergency fortifications, opposite which the Chinese mobilized...