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Photograph by C. D. Jameson 

 A BOAT WITH WHICH THE CRAFTY CHINESE FISHERMAN MAKES THE FISH 



CATCH ITSELF 



Attached to the long, narrow canoe is a thin board, painted white, one edge floating in 

 the water. On calm, bright moonlight nights the canoe is swung out into the river across 

 the line of an advancing school of fish. The man sits quietly waiting and the fish, dashing at 

 the white board glistening in the moonlight, land in the canoe. 



pre - war Belgium supported through 

 highly developed industry. Does such a 

 territory offer asylum to the Japanese? 

 With such a man as the Shantung coolie, 

 the Japanese farmer simply can't com- 

 pete. 



TSINGTAU, CHINA'S ATLANTIC CITY 



Shantung is a land of villages, but it 

 has its big modern towns as well. Tsing- 

 tau and Tsinan are two of the most rap- 

 idly changing cities in the world. Ger- 

 many laid their foundations. Japan is 

 rushing them to completion. 



Tsingtau is the Atlantic City of the 

 China coast. Its climate is excellent, its 

 golf courses are well constructed, and it 

 boasts modern hotels, miles of the finest 

 motor roads, and clean streets. 



Behind it stretches a background of 

 charming hills, where the scrap-iron and 

 smashed cement of German forts spell 

 the downfall of German military power 

 and where millions of trees testify to 

 German skill in battling against one of 

 China's most serious problems. 



Were China's countless hills clothed in 

 such forests as form the lovely setting 



