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Show 11 MOUTHS VEXING JMI Every Aero Is Utilized in an Effort to Feed Growing Population TOKIO. Aug 7. The grav ity of the : food Question In Europe finds It.s echo in Japan, where tho problem of how to feed the population, which Is 1 incrcasiriic annually by 600,000, Is be- 1 coming yearly more pressing. Japan has ample living space for ; Its people, hut cannot produce enough food for them, especially rice. Eery bit of land Is cultivated to the limit of iis capacity. The land of Formosa, the Island colony. Is worked to Its full capacity by the two million Chinese Chin-ese farmers, who cultivate the rics fields wl'h Kreat skill In K"r i. al-so, the grain harvest Is considerable, though the failure of the Koreans to use fertilizer prevents greater har- vests. To meet the food menace Japan, by a special arrangement with Erance, Is maklnK heavy rice Imports from lndo-China This !s a costly operation, opera-tion, however, the Japanese government govern-ment losinc $20,000,000 last year in supplying lndo-China rice to the Jap-i anese people at a moderate- price. ' A solution to which the government! Ls turninc its attention is that of In-1 duclng the people to eat less i.ee and more wheat because of the pieat wheat' fields of Manchuria which would be; ample as a food supply. If the peo-J pie would eat wheat. The enorir.oi.s output of Manchuria Is handled bj the South Manchuria railway, which at the same time transports yearly i some 30o,0uo Chinese coolies frcml Shantung province to Manchuria, where they labor in the rice lands of' the northern province. Siberia, In thej great belt extending south from Irku-I tsk and imsk, is a wonderful Rraln- fieid. if regularly cultivated, capable of helping In the solution of the world food pro Idem "The great grain center of Wlnnl-! peg. Canada," said a leading Japanese I business man to tho correspondent, bids fair to be rivalled one day In, world Importance by the city of liar-' bin. on the border o Manchuria and 1 Eastern Siberia. Harbin Is admirably ', situated to handle the grain articles of tho Ear Bast, and I predict a great commercial future for that city." on |