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JAPANESE AIRSHIPS.
The correspondent of a London, jearnal writing from Tokyo on May 17th gives the following account of Japanese progress in
serenautics ---
Although, apparently, little public interest is taken in Japan regarding aeronautics generally, the Government is keenly alive to the pos sibilities of the airship, and a little excursion into such na natrodden path of human activity reveals the fact that secretly much work is being done of a charseter similar to the great efforts of Zeppelin and fler experiments with the dirigible balloon..
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planned in blue and white, but which is as yet, which show that the percentage of the markot value of cotton shares in India to their face value in 1908-9 was 121.8, as against 100 in the prosperous year 1905-6, although the rate of dividend on ordinary shares had fallen from 6.7. to 5.7 per cent..
With this theory in working shapo, Mr. Yamada liopes to be able to defy the destroyar, and to do what is more creditable still in his opinion, conquer the air, so that ships will not be at the mercy of every wind that blows.
What referensc was made to European and American activity in aeronauties showed Mr. Yamada to be well acquainted with the most discussed questions of the subject.
His sonres of information is the translatore" bureau referred to at the beginning of this article, where he says he can read in his own language everything that is written upon the gabject in Europe,
A's, Indian milla raly almost wholly on the home production of raw cotton, it should be zoted that the estimated outtum for the 1908-9 season is greater by 17 per cent. than that for 1907-5/ It has been calculated by an expert that of the 1907-8 crop about 42 per coat, was consumed by the mills and 16 per cent. by the domestic spinners, leaving 42 per cent. for exportation.
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No practical work is being done with the He does not regard the fature of the aeroplane JAPANESE BANKING AND IMPROVED Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at aeroplane, the usefulness of which is doubted in with enthusiasm, nor does he think the develop- comparison with the possibilities of the dirigiblement of the airship as a means of commerce type but the progress made in all branches of very hopeful, aviation is being watched very closely and recorded in the archives of the Department
concerned.
For this purpose a corps of translators is employed by the Japanese Government, and every important article on the subject of avia tion appearing in European and American journals is duly translated and docketed for
future use.
The principal inventor for the Government is a private citizen, a civilian, of whem a good deal may be heard in the future.
He has just patented the Yamada Kiki, au airship for which advantages are claimed,
Mr. Isaburo Yamada is a man of forty-seven, short and thickset, with the typical Oriental eye, expressionless except to a close observer, and
short-cropped hair,
small, Dickensonian sort of house in Tokyo, crowded in among others, with a tram was in front and a rallway at the roar, in the midst of all sorts of noises, Mr. Yamada works out his intricate calculations untroubled, with the plans in blue and white of his airship and motion of which he talks little, airship-destroyer before him, together The leading idea in Mr. Yamada's invention soons simple enough. It has an ordinary deep- bellied balloon, length thirty-five metres, and holding 2,000 bir fest of gas, towed by gasolene motor of 50-hp. suspended from the
bow or head of the balloon.
The inventor claims that the shape of the balloon gives it an advantage over the Zeppelin typam navigating a strong wind. It is better able to resist a wind abeam, and can always keep its head to the wind and yet go in any direction by means of the motor, upended afty fest below, whose propeller is capable of six hundred evolutions a minute motor-boot, in
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Between the application for and the grant
The delay shows the intarest taken in the whole subject by the Japanese Government.
During the war Japau made much more effective use of balloons that the Russians did, and by the time of the next war it is probable Japan will be as well furnished in respect of airships as any Earopena Power,
Sir Westby Porcaval, K.C, G., presided
of the patent for the Yamada Kikiu nearly at the ordinary gemoral meeting of the Anglo- official investigations it was considered-promo-to the two which had preceded it. Their first thros years elupuud, but because of certain secret Japanese Bank (Limited), and stated that the report subunittel offered a pleasing contrast fare to give the invention the publicity conferred by the Patent Offee,
report, he said, showed a less on the first your's working of £2725: the second report, which covered a period of Bfteen months, showed a profit of £900; whereas this year they shovel profit of £10,000. That was a very marked improvement, and he ventured to think it would There was one paragraph in the report about be regarded by the shareholdere as satisfactory. which they would desire some informa- sion, and that
the statement to the closing of the Shanghai Agency. No significance need be attached to that, The Agency had given them s fair return on the capital employed and any possiblo loss in exchange in transferring their money from China had been covered. From the realis-
J. N. PERLINGTON,
THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
PROGRESS IN INDIA.
A correspondent writes as follows to the Tinies:-The largest factory industry in India, as in England, is the cotton industry. excise duties, its progress in remarkable. The and in spite of trade depression and the cotton extent of the progress can best be realized by an examination of the following official statis. ties, showing the increase in the number of mills, spindles, looms and employes, and in the amount of nominal capital invested during the last quarter of a century.
It will be observed that since 1882-3 the mills have increased by 366 per cent, while the capital is three times as great, and the em piores are four times as numerous. It is ss. pecially important to note, as indicating the trend of the Industry, that loons have increased by over 440 per cent. us compared with an the 20 years ended 1902-3 koms increased by increase of 348 per cent. in spindles. During
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profits of the your they had to deduct the debit balance of the preceding year, amonating to £1,823, and they had therefore a total balaner mended that the whole of that amount should be of £9,076 to deal with. The directors recom- carried forward and dealt with next year. Although the amount as sufficient te pay a 3 per cent, dividend on the eabscribed ospital they believed that the sound and prudent coure to follow was to make no listribution this year Their chief reason for that was that they desired when commencing to make distributions of profit, at the same time to begin to write off the pre- liminary expenses account. (Hear, hear.) It would be mareasonable, he thought, to expect shiro holders to wait for a distribution until these pre- liminary expenses were all written off, but it was obrions that this year they were not is a expenses wrement and at the same this was a mined on the downs, where the position to
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The commander and engineer are in the basket on. The ing and weaving were carried arrive at some basis, fair to the shareholders andersigned.
to the rear, having with them.compass and an instrament to measure the velocity of the wind,
There are two compartments in the balloon, the top containing Lydrogen, and the bottom compartment, which will be seen ontlined in the plan, air, which enters through the funnel under- weath the bow and is let out through thesmaller funnel et the sterni...
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dividend. For that reason they felt it better to increased by no less than 23,00 At the carry forward the whole of the profits of the below the balloon is the mat in charge of end of 1907-8 there were 98 mills used exclusive year, and it would be time enough next year to ammeftion, who drops his shells through a holely for spinning and 13 for waying, while in 116 consider how they should be dealt with, and to
the bottom of the basket.
alls both
corresponding numbers five years ago and fair to the bank for gradually extinguish were 113, 4, and 84 respectively. It is clear. ing the preliminary expenses necount. He wan then, that the vicissitudes experienced in the well aware that soine few shareholders expectat foreign markets for yarn have inducid the mill- & dividend this year, but in view of the owners to use more of their yoru for weatingfortunate time at which the bank started sloth, and this policy has been strengthened by he thought their expectation of a divid the swadeshi movement.
end was too sanguine.
Few banks which had aimed at firmly establishing a busi ness rather than the inaking of inmediata profits, succeeded in arriving at a dividend paying point during the early years of their existence, and in their own case they had bad HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS exceptional difficulties. They commenced basi news in Japear at a time when speculation, was
IN THE CHINA SQUADRON. rife, and when it was most difficult to do busines on safe lines. The anstable state of things in Jepan bad happily pasend. The commercial classes hud burnt their lesson and had profited by it and now better conditions prevailed and business was forthcoming which was both sound and profitable, and they had no reason for doubting that they would continue to do so increasing and prontable business. not be forgotten, however, that with thin improvement, and the restoration of confidence, the rates of interest had fallen, and that was a factor which had to be faced by investors, bat although lower rates would foubtless prevail. the expansion of business which cheaper money produces would, it was hoped," prove a com pensation.
Mr. Yanadu explains that, while this is a Geruma ides, as far as he is concerned the idea is original as applied to halloons But it is a very old one in Japan. For hundreds of years May 5 has been the date of the Boys Festival (Tango no Sokku), and on this date kuge paper or cotton fish (carp) Soat sapoaded from bamboo polos, like flags.
The mouth of the carp, through which air enters, is large, the large body or balloon is in- fated and floats in the wind, the air fuding an exit through the smaller hale at the tail.
This idea is exemplified in the plan of Mr. Yamada's balloon, and he claims that it was the flosting carp which suggested it. Two other features of the plan are the valves un the roof of the balloon.
The safety valve is on the right, while the one to the left is the escape valve to enable the balloon to descend
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the shape of which is seen more clearly in The projection at the rear is the rudder, the accompanying photograph, representing the identical balloon which did effective reconnaissance work at Port rther. In a few months it is hoped the first trial in the air will bo made
The Yazanda. Kikiu, as it is now registered in the Patent Office of Tokyo, is the fruit of fifteen years study, but is not a first invention.
Years ago Mr. Yomads turned out, & collaps. ible host, the bull of which was of the material used in the balloon bag. At that time he was ordered by the War Department to produce a material best suited for balloons, and the resal is now lu use in the Balloon Corps of the army. It consiate of an outside layer of silk with rubber between.
Beyond studying the best balloon material, Mr. Yamada has also been engaged in investiga tions for the Government with the object of producing rubber.
The composite material that Mr. Yamada has svolved will be used for the Kikin," now under construction in an cutlying district, which will be finished in three months.
Altogether Mr. Yamada has devoted fifteen years of his life to the study of aaronantics, and when he secured his patent in February last the inventor the Sixth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun.
The Bombay residency continues to be the great centre of the industry. It containts 161 mills, or 71 per cent. of the total, and these mills possess 71 per-coat. of all the spindles and 80 per cent. of all the looms. Although Bombay city still has the largest number of mills, the most remarkable feature is the growth of the industry in Ahmedabad, where there were 50 mills in 1907-08 as compared with 42 in 1906-7 and 32 in 1902-3. As to the amount of nominal capital, £13,160,000, there is some doubt, as an estimante has to be made of the capital invested id certain of the mills belonging to privato propriators. But it is worth noting that less than £1,000,000 of the total is sterling capital, for this fact signifies that by far the greater part of the business is in the hands of Judians.
PRODUCTION OF YARN.
During the last seven years the annual ont turn of cotton yarn has always exceeded 555 million pounds, the maximum production being 656 million pounds in 1905-6, when the trade was stimulated by plentiful supplies of raw material and by generally favourable conditions in the Chinese market. Subsequently, however, the accumulation of stocks and factaations in the Chinese exchange began to react on the Indian mils, and prednation leclined to 631 million and 614 million pounds in 1906-7 and 1907-8 respectively. The latest returus, for the 10 months to January, 1909, show some improve. ment. The production of yarn of counts above No. 25 has continued to increase, and amounted In 1907-8 to 67 million pounds, or over 9 per cent of the total yarn production. Five yours ago the proportion was only 6 per cent. The spinning of the higher counts is chiefly in Forebay Presidenzy, where it represents 11 per cout of the yam output. By using Egyptian and other importa cotton the Boubay mills now spin an appryciable quantity of No. 40 and upwards, the amount in 1907-8 being 8 million pounds. Bat though Tadias mille fiave, during the last few years, tended to produce more yarn of higher counts, the imports have not been unsatisfactory. In 1907-8 they were equivalent to 5 per cent, of the Inilian production, and 3 million pound (or 93 per cent of the total)
were of counts over No. 25.
In turning to the production of woven goods it is found that progress is more marked, the growth in output hing more rapid and can 181 million pounds, as compared with 117 million pounds five years rlier
the proportion
It must
A brief discussion followed, in the course of which regret was expressed that the enapazy was not yet paying a dividend, bot after a reply from the Chairman, in which he said that he hoped that they might be able to give some return to the shareholders before very long, the report was adopted.
OPIUM SMOKING IN INDIA,
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Simtaneously with the completion of his airship the inventor perfected a small engine of war, whose object is the destruction of what has already been accomplished after so much labour. A balloon is an easy thing to set afire if you can drop fire upon it. This is what be now destroyer will do, but Mr. Yarunds was reticent on the subject, and ready to oblige the inquiring foreigner as when talking about his airship.
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A skatch plan of the invention, however, showed a mass of brilliant starlike fire falling npon an airship.
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grey or unbleached goods remains of about 81 per cent, of the total. In 1907-8 there was an increase of 14 per cent, ever the production of 1906-7. Most of the weaving is done in the Bombay mills, whick manufactured 95 per cent. of all the cloth. The most important descrip- tions of grey goods are shirtings and long-cloths dhuties, T.cloths, domesties and shootings, and chadars. The home production of unbleached imports of these goods, goods is now equal to about one-third of the
During 1907-8 the industry was affected not only by a disorganization of trade in the Far East, but also by a restriction of the purchasing power of the people reeniting from a widespread shortage of crops.in India, to say nothing of the world-wide depression of trade which operat el to lader industries of all kinds. These unfavourable jutleeuces persisted in 1908-9, and
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made from every native of India who smokes We fancy that if an exhaustive enquiry wom opium, evidence very similar to that laid before the Straits Settlemente Commission would be obtained. Of the many natives, for example, who regularly frequent the opium olubs in Bom-Jans, torpedo-boat destroyer, 280 tons, 6 gaus, bay the great majority would be found not to have boon sensibly degrated by the habit, and
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kong. unable to face the buffets of ill-fortuns were it not th solace of the nightly pipe. We remember hearing of one old man who claimed that opium-smoking had actually helped him to save money. He earned on au average about eight or ten annas a day. Out of this he purchased one good meal for about four annas, spent two annas on his nightly future. "Fad I not come here evening after evosing to smoke and sleep," he remarked, city and spent all my earnings, and at the some I should have perforce wandered about the time should have lost the readiness to go forth every morning and work which is engendered by a peaceful night." the Bombay opium-smoker lays rightly or Another point upon which wrongiy much stress is that the percentage of regala smokers who have been attacked by or succumbed to plague is very small indeed, and that this inmunity from a disease which has penerated every quarter of the vily in due to the hidden virtue of the drug. This is a contention which should not perhaps he accepted without a regalar enrury; but it is truly upheld by the devotees of the black smoke," and may contain a germ of truth. Another point to which the Com- mission draw attention is that prohibitive legis lation, even if it could achieve success without. an international agreement to stop the growth firstly to smuggling and secondly to the adoption by the population of substitutes in their effects than opium. suc morphia, which are far more delatori
Wo in India have some knowledge of the avid manner in which certain classes of the population have taken to the corsamption of cocaine and of the evil consequences of that habit; and it is perhaps not going too far to say that if opium stacking
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the stocks of yarn at the close of the year wore of the poppy, would most assuredlyer, receiving ship; 4,500 tons, 6 gau
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ENCOURAGING OUTLO·K.
Above the falling fire the smallestroyer was enrering, having reached the apex of its course from the camp, whence it had been discharged.
Assuming that a hostile vessel has arrived over the Japanese camp at an altitude, say, of a thousand metres, the destroyer is sent up like a sky-rocket, fised to discharge its fire at a certain moment, when the vessel is immediately above the airship. It then bargle and spreads jets of fire a thousand nutres in extent
The ire falls, enveloping the airship, and out redeeming features. Before 1909-9 onded Nevertheless, the year's basiness was not with ecutiones alive till within Era hundred metres the stocks of yarn in China had materially de- of the ground, when it exhausts itself.
clined, and exporta from India revived Moreover, Another type of the destroyer is fitted with harvest prospects in India were bright, and steering gear, such as is seen on the torredo, 1909-10 promises to be be a good year. It is and is designed to ascend diagonally in order to regrettable that there has been a falling-off in attack an approaching vassel Each of these the recently developed trade with Europe in
in recordance with the dictates of Exeter Hall! types,
it should be noted, after discharging its
wers absolutely prohibited here, the difficulties fire, is designed to retain to the sender, but at yarus, due to the failure of Indian yarus to souse distance from the point of despatch. come up to the European standard of reeling and dangers alrondly attendant upon the craze There can be no exaggerating the difficultiessation will be found in the incrossing strength materially increased. As the Commission har and count. But it is to be hoped that compen for cocaine and similar drugs would be vorg Mr. Yamada has encountered in trying to over of the Chinese market, where the extension of pointed out, the ordinary man must indulge in come the effects of varying and eccentric, our railways should expand the sales of Indian something; and of the various forms of in lule routs of wind at different altitudes
yarns. That there weed be no despair of the ene now prevalent throughout the world. opium- At least, there is no doubt of these difficulties fature of Indian cotton industry is evident smoking is on the whole perhaps less harmful leing uppermost in kis mind, and his efforts to from figures recently published by the Director- than say except tobacco-smoking, Bombicy evercome them have led to an invention, daly General of Commercial Intelligence in India, Gazette.
Commodore Lyon, Hongkong.
Teal, river ganiat, 180 tons, 2 guns, Liant,
Comdr. H. E. Godfrey, Yangtzo. Thistle, gunboat: 710, tons, 900 b.p., Lisut
Comdr. II. T. Attlay, Yungle. Virago, torpedo bout destroyer, 395 tone, 6 raus,
6,300 ih.p.. Commander.
Stevensor, Weibui rei. Waterwitch, surveying ship, 620 tons, 450 1.3 Lieut. Comdr H. P. Douglas, Port Swottenham.
Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer, 360 tons, 5
grans, 5.900 p. Liert-Condr. C. A Fremantle, Weihaiwei.
Widgeon, grumbest 195, tous, 2 guns, 800 h.g Woodcock, runboat, 150 tous. 2 gans, 550 hp:
Lt.-Cendr. John F. Knox, Yangtas. Lieut. Comdr. H. R. V. Cottrell Dorper Tanytsze.
Woodlerk, gunboat, 150 tons, 2 gang. 550 h.p. Lient. Corgir. G. R. Livingstone, Yangtze