No doubt they overlook the L.M.R.'s allegedly faulty financial estimates for the Euston-Liverpool/Manchester scheme, which have biassed the Treasury, and perhaps the open-minded Dr. Beeching, against electrification without renewed examination of projects.

Therewith his ſturdie corage ſoone was quayd, / And all his ſences were with ſuddein dread diſmayd.

The People's Daily on March 3 demanded that hsia ma items be attended to with proper rehabilitation efforts. Through maximum utilization, dead things should be brought back alive, the editorial on page 1 urged. Two-thirds of page 2 was devoted to a description of how an iron mill at Hengshui, Hopei province, was torn into pieces and sold at giveaway prices.

Mutable as is our nature, it delights in the immutable: and we expect as much constancy as if all time, to say nothing of our own changeableness, had not shewn that ever the fashion of this world passeth away.