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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3RD 1914.
existence of the silk producera of China. The author of the pamphlet claims that his work has been made necessary and is justified by the present state of the silk industry, and, what is more important, the promising future which lies before it.
After referring somewhat fully to the pro- gress made in the silk industry in the latter years of the last century, the depres- | slon in China after 1899, which year saw. the highest figures over recorded for exportation of silk and its products, and the subsequent rotura of prosperity in the
The German mail of the 28th April was delivered in London on 30th May,
The Manila Observatory yesterday re- ported a typhoon E of Formosa moving
North.
By means of the confidence trick, a Chinese robbed a woman of two jade bangles, valued at $50, in First Street on Monday
ker, in Korea, in March, has been sop- The Japanese who murdered Dr. Stry- tenced to death by the Pyongyang Appeal Court. The higher Court quashed the sentence of imprisonment for life which
country's sill trade, the author recalls that
· in 1911 Dr. MORRISON was able to write in The Times : --" Trado is booming, and the inaterial welfare of the people is higher than it has ever been, new sources of wealth are being developed in
Three Chinese living in the Wanchai every business and trade; there is greater activity district were prosecuted at the Magis- and prosperity than was ever knowncy yesterday under the new dog before. This generalisation, Mr. SHAW muzzling regulations for emitting to: muzzle their dogs, and for having no goes on to say, is true today of every part of China; but it is in Manchuria, now called the Three Eastern Proviness,
whose opening to foreign commerce ia of quite recent date, that the most rapid development has been witnessed. This development, he says, showe no signs of halting in spite of plagues and revolution. The booklet, which is full of detail which would not all appeal to the lay mind, deals with a branch of the silk trade which has sprung almost suddenly out of small begin- nings into one of importance in South Man- churia and Shantung, the Province across the Gulf, which is closely connected with Manchuria by the supply of emigrants which it sends from its surplus population to the newer land. The demand for "wild" silks began in Europe after the epidemics of silk-worm disease had ravaged Europe and when inquiry was made for
and wide for new breeds of silk creators
whose milk might supplement that of the dwindling European stock. It was about 1870 that the many varieties of Indian wild silks began to be exploited in Europe, and their natural qualities rendered them useful and popular in certain branches of the trade. Before many years had passed Chinese Tussore was taking a share in this new development; Chefoo and Newchwang bad well-established foreign connections,
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HONGWONG, JU E 3RD, 1914:
FROM mimerons sources we learn that the fashion of ladies' wearing apparel is even incre fickle than the English climate, yet below the veneer of humour with which the changeable mind and equally unstable gar. ments of the fair sex is dealt with, thore exists a question of really serious import. The wearing of silk, for instance, means as much to the general prosperity of certain portions of China as does the wearing of Tweed cloths to many large towns of the North of England. The very livelihood of many hundreds of people depends upon the
Western residente in China, soon began to be known in the Home countries. In spite of this development, however, it was not until the late 'eighties that the Chinese Tussore trade attained anything beyond insignia cant dimensions, and even then progress was-slow; as late as 1899 only 8.32 per ceat, of the silk examined at Lyons was Tussore. Therefore, it is only during the last five or six years that this silk has made really extensive progress in popular favour. MR. SHAW believes that a fair future lics before the Manchurian wild silk industry. He points out that the vogue of silk and the uses to which it is put hare greatly increased; consequently overy silk-produc. ing country is striving to increase ita: production, and fresh supplies are welcomed, In response to this ever-increasing demand the Manchurian cultivators, now fully
THE
66.
99.
EMPRESS DISASTER. TELEGRAMS,
CAPTAINS BLAME EACH OTHER.
STATEMENT BY OWNERS OF THE COLLIER.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MONTREAL, June 2nd.
The Captains of the Empress of Ireland and the Storstadt have made statements, each throwing the blame on the other.
was passed on the prisoner by the Haiju The owners of the Storstadt have issued a statement, based on Captain Local Court.
Anderson's report. They state that the Storstadt saw the Empress, lights for away, and they maintain that the Storstadt had a right of away, and that the Empress changed her course so that she would be able to pass safely. The fog then came down, and signals were exchanged. The Storstadt stopped her engines, and her course remained unaltered. The Empress was suddenly seen close at hand, making considerable headway. The collier then reversed her engines but struck the Empres. She then went ahead. The report emphatically denies that the Storstadt backed out. On the contrary, it declares that the Empresa had such headway that she swung the Storstadt round.
licence. A fine of $25 was imposed on each defendant.
Y
The Chinese Maritime Customs have issued a notice that the importation of Indian-and any other foreign or native.
opium is prohibited into the province of Hupeh from the 1st June, 1914. The only provinces which are not yet stated to be free from opium are Kiangsi, Kuangtung, Kueichow, Kansu, Yannon and Shensi
Information has reached China of the death in Gormany of Mr. F. Heise, who for a number of years was connected with Messrs. Buchheister & Co. at Han- kow and afterwards with Messrs. Car- lowitz & Co. at Canton, Mr. Heise bad been in bad health for some time and hað gone on sick leave hoping to recover from tuberculosis of the lungs.
One of the largest discoveries of con- traband goods made by the Manila cus tema secret service agents during the
past few months was made last week when 38 five-tael tins of opium were discovered in one of the coal bunkers on the steamer Zafire. At 35 pesos per tin, the current value of good grade opium in Manila, the haul amounted to nearly P. 4,000,
MR. GRAHAM'S BODY IDENTIFIED.
The body of Mr. W. D. Graham has been identified. The body of Mr. Laurence Irving has also boon recovered.
THE SHANGHAI SURVIVOR.
The Times understands that Mr. Darling, of Shanghai, who was rescued, is indignant at the report that Bir Henry Seton-Kare forced a lifebelt on him while he went to seek another. Mr. Darling declares that Sir Henry Seton-Karr "was already wearing one lifebelt, and helped him to assume another.
ROYAL SYMPATHY:
His Majesty the King has subseri bed £500 and the Queen £250 to the Mansion House Fund.
IMPOSSIBLE TO BALVE THÈ “EMPRESS."
It is stated that the Commander of II.M,S. Evta is of opinion that it will be impossible to salve the Empress, and that the hull must be blown up after the efforts to recover the cargo and the dead bodies.
There is still no confirmation of the report that "the Storstadt appears to have on board 350 persons from the Empress of Ireland." "There has been ample time for confirmation or denial, and as neither has been received we fear
it
At the Magistracy yesterday the into concluded that the statement was incorrect.]
quest was resumed by the Coroner (Mr.
J. R. Wood) on the body of an American citizen named Fernando Valera, who was found dead in a lavatory at the Seamen's Institute recently. After Dr. McKenny had given evidence that death resulted from asphyxiation, due to hanging, a verdiet that deceased committed suicide was returned.
Captain J. B. A. Grote, N.B., Advisor to the Bureau of Navigation under the Ministry of Communications, is masing a study of the rivers of South China and on his return to Peking will report on their condition. Captain Grote is a re- cognized authority on China's waterways, and his advice, a contemporary says, is bound to be of the greatest assistance ab a time when the country's means of com- munication are on the eve
of great developments.
TEN DAYS CLOSER TO THE PHILIPPINES.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Com- pany makes the following announcement: Significant in its indication of possible future policy is the inauguration of a new Canadian Pacific trans-Pacific ser vice from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Manila, Philippine Islands, via Japa nese and Chinese ports. On June 11th the Empress of Russza, sister ship to the Empress of Asia, the two largest and fatest steamships on the Pacific, will be sent to Manila, from Vancouver via Yoko steamers will hami Kobe, and Nagasaki. These
ELECTRIC LIGHT DIRECT FROM COAL
An invention on which a German engineer, Johannes Marschall, of Dres den, has been working for some years past holds out the prospect that householders will be able to obtain electric light for a central power station, by means of an their houses, without the intervention of
apparatus which will merely require to be supplied with coal like an ordinary stove.
" DAILY FEBB5"! EXCLUSIVE SERVICE,]
NEW JAPANESE MINISTER TO
PEKING
Tokyo, Jund Sud
Mr. Hogi, the Minister to Chile, has
been transferred to Peking to succeed the late Mr. Yamaza.
[Tho now Minister has had a wide ex perience in the diplomatic service: He was one of the negotiators of the Japanese Commercial Treaty with China.]
(THROUGH RAUTER'S AGENCY.]
ARMS SMUGGLING IN MEXICO,
HEAVY FINES IMFÒBED.
VERA CRUZ, June 2nd.
The Amarican authorities at Vera Cruz. have fined the German steamer Banazia 111,685 pesos, and the Ipiranga 894,950 pesos for discharging cargo at a port other than where it was consigned.
[These vessels
vere allegod to smuggled arms into Mexico,]
BOATING TRAGEDY.
Feve
FIVE. ENGLISH EOY SCOUTS AND THEIR SCOUTMASTER DROWNED.
London, June Lud:
Ľ
A Scoutmaster and five Boy Scouts' were drowned owing to the overturning of a buat on the Oulton Broads..
SUFFRAGETTE VANDALISM,
CHURCH DESTROYED BY FIRE
LONDON, June Zud. The Church at Wargrave on the Thames was destroyed by fire caused by: Suffra- gottos yesterday.
'The
FRENCH PREMIER RESIGNS..
PARIE, June 2nd. Premior, M. Doumergne, bas decided to resign after prolonged cons versations with his colleagues, being of opinion that he has completed the task for which he took office, namely, the securing of a majority in favour of the Socialist-Radical programme..
Navy Minister, will be Premier, and M. It is reported that M. Viviani, the
Delcasso Minister for War.
CANTON NOTE REDEMPTION SCHEME.
A telegram from Peking to the local Chinese Prear states that the Canton note
The fact that electricity is gonerated when the functions of different metals are kept at different temperatures was noticed by Seebeck nearly a century ago, and redemption scheme is still in suspense, out the time from the many efforts have since been made to the delay being occasioned by the failure Pacific coast of North America to Manila utilize the phenomenon on a practical of the Quintuple Group to agree regard to seventeen days against 28 days, the scale, the thermopiles of Clamond and. fastest time on any existing schedule from Iauck being examples.
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adviser
to
his
At the Marine Court yesterday, before alive to the chances of gain offered them by Commander Basil Taylor, R.N. (Har the new conditions, are adding to the pro-bourmaster and Magistrate), 12 Chinese its return to the Occident, the passenger screwed together, but with that method of 23rd May. He was detained by the
with many
a com-
any port on the Pacific coast. The Em-technical and manufacturing difficulties superintend the scheme.
But various ing the appointment of press of Russia has the record for the have been encountered. The current done the trip in nine days five hours as numbers of elements must be combined in SEQUEL TO THE DEEP WATER BAY lastest voyage scruss the Pacific, having obtained being at best very weak, largo against nearly eleven days, the record order to yield any serviceable effect, and time of the Empress of Japan. No other alloys which gave a reasonably high
ROBBERY. steamers on the Pacific sailing from ports electromotive force had the objection that south of Vancouver can approach this their electrical resistance was also high.
The Coroner held an inquest at the record by a weak. The Empreses are The forming of the junctions between the Magistracy yesterday on the body of one especially designed for carrying pas metals or alloys presented another set of Wu Yau, who was found hanging by sengers and fast freight, such. es silk, with which commodity space is laden on troubles. In some cases the parts were neck, in a police cell at Aberdeen on the accommodation is palatial, and ample construction oxidation was apt to occur ducing areas or developing to better effect were charged with boarding a whip under provision has been made for the rapid and cause an undue increase in the police in connection with the robbery. resistance. Soldering, and especially from Mr. Keating, the manager of the that which is already devoted to the way. It appears that Detective-Sergeant taking on and discharging of cargoes.
EXTENSION OF MAIL SERVICE.
hard soldering, is possible only with cor- Deep Water Bay Brickworks, on the 15th industry. Another point which cannot pass occasion to board the French liner carrying now for the United States will even so the junctions prove unable to
Pincott and Detective Singleton had
The mails which these steamers are tain metals and over small surfaces, and May. without notice is the tendency, which is fille de la Ciotat, going on board when no doubt be largely increased with the resist a high temperature for long. Weld who is in charge of the Aberdeen police, From the evidence of Sergeant Brazil, very recent origin, for the manufacture of
extension of their trip the Candianing again, is impracticable wit the vessel was off Lawa Inland, silk thread to increase in Manchuria. The liner came down the Central Fairway, Pacific Company was the result of
As the This move on the part of the Canadian metals.
A it seemed that after receiving In the Marschall apparatus an attempt munication from a Chinese constable on author rightly says that the improvement of the usual swarm of sampans rapidly appeals from merchants and business has been made to overcome these dificul guard duty he visited the cell occupied quality is becoming increasingly necessary came around her, thus impeding naviga Japan and the Pacific coast, but of a special alloy which yields a high by
men at only of Manila, China and tics. The positive electrodes are made of in view of the bad reputation which Native tion, and several elung on to the steamer Chicago and New York as well.
Wn Yau, and found the prisoner Eaws" have in the West, and the sug by boat-hooks while she was still proceed-loser to the Philippines will mean much of constantan, a copper nickel alloy, His feet were about 11 inches above
The
somė bringing of Uncle Sam ten days electromotive force, bat has a low specific hanging by
cotton tape - like electric resistance, and the negative ones iaaterial from the hasp of his window- gestion that conditioning houses shoulding on her way. A number of Chinese in closer trade relations and will make
set up at the Manchurian portsclambered on board, and were speedily commerce possible on lines now out of the while the junctions between the alloys are would, if carried out, be of great benefit arrested by the two European detectives, question. It will also put Manila on the ingeniously effected by means of electro- the cell floor. The officer cut him down. direct line of the heavy tourist travel deposited copper. Five of the elements and the prisoner then attered a grunt to the trade. Meanwhile, the Chinese Others jumped into the sea on recognising round the world from Great Britain thus constructed are arranged together and was quiet. Artificial respiration was Government is stated to be doing something the Sergeant and swam to their sampans, carried by the Canadian Pacific Railway in series to form a "section," and a kept up for 20 minutes without avail,
number of these sections are bound Montreal. towards encouraging the industry, while while several were clinging perilously to Company Reuters Correspondent at
together in a ring, the junctions which and the body was boat-hooks. The defendants wore board- the Japanese authorities have also conduct-
In connection with the subject matter are to be bented being all at the bottom Mortuary. The Sergeant found three runners. ing-house
The Magistrate of this cutting it is interesting to note of the sections and those which are cooled superficial wounds on the head, and a ed experiments with the same object in sentenced all 12 to a month's hard labour that the Empress of Russia, on her pre- at the top. As many of those rings as view. In concludiug lús booklet, Mr. SHAW
sent voyage to Canada arrived makes another important suggestion. He
at may be needed to give the required out- deep ent, supposed to have been inflicted Victoria on the 31st May, having covered put are slipped over a central heating by a piece of a telephone cell which the notes that in the British leased territory of
the distance from Yokohama to Victoria tube and clasped firmly upon it The prisoner had secured from a box outside in 210 actual steaming hours, or 8 days 18 furnace is designed as a gas generator, his cell. Wei-bai-wet there is also an opening for
the fuel being gasified and conveyed to the development of the industry, as land which can be used for no other purpose is available for oak culture. There can be no doubt that there would be a very much larger future for the silt industry of North China if care were taken to cultivate it. It may be hoped that the authorities whose special charge it is to protect and promote China's industrial and commercial development will take warning from the
be
eachi
THE PLAGUE.
The returns for last week show a drop of about a hundred per cont. compered with the figures for the previous two or three weeks..
The total number of cases last week was 112, which included 2 British and 2 Indians, the rest being Chiness (5
ported). The deaths totalled 89. Since the beginning of the year there have been 1,784 cases, viz. 7 Europeans,
hours.
SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA.
then
sent
to the
the heating tube, where it is burnt with Dr. C. W McKenny said that in his
the aid of a suitable air supply from opinion death was due to asphyxiation, without Outside the rings there is a caused, by hanging. There was a small casing through which cool air circulates fracture of the skull, and superficial As to this parrot cry of boats for all," round the cold junctions of the thermo- cuts. He thought it possible that the it is a false hope, Fossibly ignorant pile, the object being to maintain as great clamour from land-people is somewhat difference of temperatura as possible wounds could have been inflicted by responsible for it. With boats of present between these cold junctions and the hot deceased with the piece of telephone cell dimensions it will not do. As to these junctions, which rest on the central heat produced, but it would have required a small rafts which may be thrown from ing inbe experinatal apparatus which the vessel's deck," what, may we ack, will In an experimental apparatus which man of courage to do it.
The jury returned a verdict in accord- he the condition of the unfortunate people has been built there are 10 rings, cach on board of them after half-an-hour in containing ten sections, the total numberance with the medical evidence, and that
The length the deceased committed suicide. even moderate Atlantic weather Beats of elements thus being 800.
The following changes in the American
effect: Mr. Jocelyn, Vice-Consul in Tien-
power of a mere worm's amazing production ing tes trade, and see to it that indifference have been 1,507 deaths, including one be practically under water. If rafts of metres. When lignite is used as fate in Consular Service are shortly to take continued wearing of silk garments and the practical extinetion of China's once-Heurish.25 Chinese and 51 other Asiatics. There will stand a good deal of sea if properly of the apparatus is about six metres, -its- managed, but these little death traps will width 0.60 metres, and its height 1.36 to withstand all the crazy notions as to to the maintainance of a high standard Eiropean,
large size wore admissible there might we amount consumed with the apparatus in dress etiquette. If one accurately judges of quality, which has been responsible for Aberdeen was the only one of the think-be something in it; certainly they! full operation is stated to be about 2.5kg tsin, is to go to Canton, and he will be a booklet written by Mr. NORMAN SHAW, the decline in the tea exports, is not allowed twenty health districts into which, the means like boats, but when affont they at 112 marks per 10,000kg is equivalent to would require launching by mechanical per bour per kilowatt, which with lignite B.A., dealing with the production of to kill the silk trade also, in view of the Colony is divided, which was entirely free would at least keep people alive for the about 1-3d per Board of Trade out for Manchurian Tussore Silk, Fashione fade
fuel costs alone. The total costs are great potentialities of that trade
of plague fast week.
three hours or so before rescue came.- and fancies have by no means harmed the
Fautical Magazine."
estimated not to exceed 2-3d. per unit.
succeeded by Mr. G. C. Hanson, who is at present Vice Consul in Dainy. Mr. A. A. Williamson will be transferred from Formosa to Dalny.