Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-23
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

| with four ships and penetrated far up
/ both the Uruguay and the Parana. He
! founded the fort at what Is now the
! town of Gaboto-stiil perpetuating his
name after more than four centuries
| Colonization Of the territory followed
| and, TO give its full name, the palisade
and fort Of Nuestra Sonora la Virgen
| Maria de Buenog Aires was built in
| 1886. From such lowly beginning has
| sprung our splendid city.
4 4 +
Irrigation Dam
| Opens 2,47I Acres In Mexico.
! FL Tempo, Monterey: Irrigation for
! 1000 hectares (2,471 acres) Of land
near Los Herreras has been effected
through the completion Of dam In
| that district on the San Juan River.
| Senior Licentiate Pablo QuiroRa an.
| nounces that the structure has been
completed and that water is now ac-
cumulating -Four thousand hectares Of
land additional will be brought under
cultivation by the end Of the year. when
another dam being built at Ayancual Is
finished Three hundred men are now
employed on this new construction.
The soil throughout this district Ii very
| fertile in its composition, but due to
! the infrequency of rain has never be-
fore been used to any advantage for
| large-scale production. The two dams
will have storage capacity Of 110. 600, :
900 cubic meters of water, which will be
drawn on for irrigation purposes as
needed.
Chinese Streak
For Evaporation Confusing.
The Manchuria Daily News, Dairen:
Any one converSant with Chinese liter
atuTe must be accustomed to q strange
streak OF exaggeration running In the
Chinese veins. It is q common phrase
to measure ones gray hair to be $4,000
feet long. One Of the great poets in old
China ikened an intimate wine-bibber
to q monster whale glIlping down the
water of . hundred rivers.
All these grotesque exaggerations are
duly discounted by the Chinese readers,
who know at Just what discount they
should be taken, but have too often I'M
posed upon the more honest foreigners.
creating very serious misunderstand-
ing Of international nature.
One of the latest instances Is the
press article in bold head lines: "3 coo
Chinese Miners Perish in Fushun COL
lieries; the Japanese Keep Strict Sc
crecy; Helpers Refused Admittance.
learned from two small articles in our
issues of February 10 and IL, February
IL being Japanese national holiday.
In the former we said: Spontaneous
Combustion in Oyama Shaft; No Cas-
ualty. but 20 Days Required for Resto-
ration" In the other issue we said.
"Fushun Oyama Shaft After Recent
Spontaneous Combustion; Outputs In
creasing After the Accident"
To quote from the latter In part:
We hear that the spontaneous corn-
buStion had resulted from the colla,se
Of part of the coal ceiling Ia level q of
upcast of the main shaft Thanks tn
the prompt execution of the termetical
sealing, there was no casualty nor anv
ehect TN the mining operation either -
The Leader, Peiping, which gave 4he
Chinese exaggerated or. more strictly
speaking, false version of the arcidc-,t
IN its issue of February is, saws n. it,
issue Of February II:
Reports Still Disagree on F,,sh,,r
Mine Accident; Men Back at Work Os,e
chinese workman Hurt, Saws Fenrkien
Dispatch; Japanese Legation Deciaras
small Fire and Explosion OcclIrreN .
The above report gives 4 rreafay. ~.
proach TO the truths, but TIRE 49,,
caused by the first garbled verx,o,, rrs ~
now only tell against the quality ~ A.
Cninese press, IN further confrmstin-
OF the everlasting truth that fhe css-
ness are born yarn-spinners.