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Finance and Commerce
MORE JUNKS FOR CHINA'S WATERWAYS: REDUCING COSTS OF TRANSPORTATION
CHUNGKING, May 8 (Central-Encouraging the construction of new junks to help ease the burden and cost of transporting China's Imports and exports in the nation's southwest, the Ministry of Communications has set aside a fund of $500,000 as "junk loans" for Szechwan boatmen.
This money is to be distributed by the Hankow Navigation Burean, which has removed to Chungking and is controlling all shipping in the provinces of Hupeh, and Szechwan.
Ship-builders, when constructing extend far into Yunnan and Kwel- new Junks may apply for "Junk, chow provinces loans" from the bureau.
The
FOREIGN OFFICE “OVERTIME”
£554
Farouk's Wedding Present - £58
The wars in Spain and China have cost the British Foreign Office thousands of pounds in ex- træ expenditure-by diplomats and consuls and in the rescue
of
British residents. This is discio sed in the Civil Appropriation Ac counts for the year ending March com-General..
FINANCE
LABOUR SHORTAGE
IN JAPAN-
Grave Problem For
Authorities
TOKYO; — Asked 'wheinér there was not a shortage of labour in agricultural com- anunities in Japan, the Minis- ter of Agriculture, Mr. Saku- rauchl, stated recently that there seemed to be a shortagg of labour in many districts.
Besides the heavy drain on man- power in the provinces due to the war in Chinu, many farmers were becoming workers in munt tion and other factories owing to the higher wages paid by industry. This tendency was particularly marked in villages in close prox- imity to the big cities..
Mr. Sakuraucu revealed that the authorities had a plan
to
With the large fleet of new ships amount of the loan wij not ex-reinforcing the existing junks and 31, 1938, issued by the Auditor-organise labour corps," each con- ceed 80 per cent, of the total cost stomships, products and "of the ship to be built
medities in these provinces will be more cheaply transported to the outside world.
Interest on the man is fixed at The Ministry has four per cent. designed, with the help of shallow
water navigation experts. improved whose Junks DA better loading
snpa- city, and of greater speed and strength
11
CHEAP TRANSPORT
These junks, when completed.
now
sisting of some ifty men, and to One of scores of miscellaneous send them one village" to another items is £554 for overtime pay in to help, in agricultural work the Foreign Office.
Evacuation
The Canton Navigation Burent. from Spain cost £32.170, and the of British subjects
hend office is
repatriation of "distressed" Britons Icrated in Kwangs!, has also been 1.850. The Nyon and Parts con- ordered by the Ministry to encourage the construction of im-ranean cost £757 for the expenses ferences on piracy in the Mediter- proved junks In the southern
of British delegates. province.
"A small offset to this exper-
will ply on the Upper Yangtze, Meanwhile, the Ministry has inditure was a saving nf £800 owing the Kialing. the Fu, and the Min structed that 1,500 thirty-ton to the temporary vacancy of the Rivers. Szechwan province, as its junks, be constructed in eastern post of British Ambassador in name indicates has four important Szechwan 3g the first fotilla of Madrid. Repatriated Britons repaid rivers and numerous tribu- theflect of ships to ply the £1,170 of the "cost incurred in taries within its borders. The Szechwan rivers under the flag of sending them home. province's all-reaching waterways the Ministry."
Weekly Private Report
REYNOLDS AND GIBSON WHEAT
were
CHINA'S WARTIME |CARTOONS ON VIEW
A sum of £15,000 was set aside for the evacuation and mainten- ance of British refugees in China, but only just over £1,000 of this had been spent, up to the end of March. Telegrams relating to the hostilities cost £78981-nearly There was an attendance of 5,000 £9,999 more than estimated. Interested people in the main hall Special local allowances granted of the Central Theatre on Sunday to Consuls in China amounted to to see the exhibition of about 50 | £1,432, and the salaries of three stimulating sketches done by Chin- additional Consular probationers ese cartoonists on wartime toples totalled EPOO. which opened for a five-day dia- play.
si
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EMBASSY COST ONLY €186
the busy season.
A GRAVER' PROBLEM It was also intended to increase the co-operation of women in farm work and to press into ser- children and secondary school stu- vice higher-grade primary school
dents.
An even graver problem wa> presented by the shortage of materials, due to Government control measures, Mr. Sakura- uchi stated..
Owing to the control of "trous, there was a shortage of agricul- tural implements, while a shortage of nails and wire was interfering with the manfacture of boxes for packing fruit.
The distribution of fertilizer was hindered by the shortage gasoline.
motors could not be
dras for the extermination worked for want of heavy oil, and
bught were not available,
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ot
Liverpool, April 95.
tions, the fact that some members Liverpool-U.K. demand show-
An item of £1.138 or medical | declined their salary Increase. "ed a welcome improvement at the
Mostly done in pen and ink and tendance is ascribed to "heavy neglect by two Irish members to commencement of the period un- some in charcoal and pencil, every expenditure in Hankow, Sharigra!, take the Oath and non-payment of der review. Several cargoes of
one of the exhibits stands out as Canton and Australian and Manitobas
Harbin." Establish- salary to five members under the disposed of and a fair number of cse people's will to resist and a cost only £186, and of a wireless
a vivid repesentation of the Chin-ment of an Embassy at. Shanghai Ministers of the Crown Act. 1937. parcels, mainly of Manitobas and powerful condemnation of Japan- station at the same place £193.
The Auditor-General's 500-page Plate wheat, changed hands. This ese aggression. Soldiers' life at the
report chronicles with equal pro- may have some connection with front received ample attention Abyssinia
The aftermath of the war in minence the Mint's £42,804 over-
enabled the Government's request millars from the hands of the cartoonists. Office to make some economies. and medals, and the refund of 39. the Foreign, time bill for striking new coinage to build up a four stock. There while children's obsession in want-"Salaries and wages at Addis Ababa 6d for private telephone has also been a better Continental ing to handle a gun to fight the riot required" accounted for a sav- made by officials of the Scottish enquiry. Sales of Australian to
Savings Committee, the Far East at full prices con-enemy supplied a theme for many; ing of $1,400.
this season 60% of Australla's
exhibits"
Among miscellaneous, expenses tinue, and it is said that so far A caustic attack on pleasure of the Foreign Office was £58 for seekers safe in their fank-holes z.wedding present to King Farouk shipments have been ex-European was Chang Kwan-yu's "Another and £25 for "presentations, &c.. destinations compared with 23% Kind or Man," and Chen Hsten-to foreign subjects for services Ini the previous season. Outside Cat's "Equal to Killing" strongly rendered." the interest, however, has been appealed for economic boycott, Broadcasting, for the first time, mainly conspicuous by its absence against Japanese goods. and quotations have moved within extremely narrow limits, finishing 1/4d. to 5/8d, down on balance.
has a separate vote. The B.B.C. re-
Two other sketches were a biting ceived £3.229,835, while £3,640 icicule on dissenters and strad-provided for the current year. The diers. The likeness of the person foreign language broadcasts are
estimated to cost £200,000.
exhibits were
Expenditure on ARP. during 1937-38 included £250,000 for the originally purchase öf sandbags. Initial
Reports of the US. Winter wheat depicted in the two sketches made crop continue to be favourable al-it impossible to mistake his iden- though it is stated that additional tity. moisture would be beneficial in The Texas, Oklahoma and South-Westmarked as not for sale, but Sun-orders for 43,000,000 of these were Kansas. Cold weather has delayed day's crowd were so enthusiastic authorised, and "further substan- operations in the Spring belt, and that it has been arranged to place tial purchases" subsequently ap 'although headway has been made all the sketches on sale at $20 proved.
in southern districts, the major each. Mr. Edgar Snow, the noted More than £5,000 was saved on portion of the northern part of Journalist and author, has also MPs salaries and travelling ex- the belt is still unseeded. Seeding bought one.
penses. This is ascribed to by-elec-.
in Canada is also said to be rela- tively slow,
Chicago prices have remained. BIMost "Stationary: Seilers are cautious in view of the European political situation and there have been reports of scattered frost in the Winter belt but no complaints of damage so far. The FS.C.C. has stopped offering, due, it is un- Gerstood, to the Government hay- ing falled to provide appropria-
China's New Tea Colonies: Development In South-West
CHUNGKING, May 8 (Central) With the exception of the wood gil Industry, perhaps no other Chinese industry has a more remarkable war, record than the tea industry which has not only survived, but has thrived in the past two years.
Contrary to the popular belief
.
tions. It has been officially that the war has deprived China timated that the export subsidy of the bulk of her tea trade, Chin- programme will be continued next yeason.
ese exports in 1938 which totalled 91.767.000 Tos, reached a five-year
sent, half of which is exported to Burma," French Indo-China and Siam.
FUTURE PROSPECTS
China's future. tea expectation Winnipeg quotations record a record. The export for January small advance, due to a fair ex-this year. totalled 5,877,989 lbs, of Coes not depend entirely on Yun- port trade to the Continent and which 5.300,000 The, went to Soviet nan Province. The hinterland pro- the UK, and a further Greek de-Russia with whom China has a vinces of Szechwan and 8ikang mand for Durumis. Canadian, ex-barter agreement.
have also an impressive annual production, Ninety-eight districts,
ports of wheat and flour trom Meanwhile, the Chinese author comprising more than two-thirds August 1, 1938, to March 31, 1939, tier are studying the possibilities of Szechwan's territory, produce amounted to 115.143.000 bushelf making interior China, par- tea, and tea groves occupy no less compared with 88,285,000 bushels ticularly Yunnan Province where than 100,000 acres of land lying in the corresponding period last more than 5,000,000 s. of the along the valleys of the Yangtze,, Camous. Pueul tea are produced the Kialing, the Min and the Uncertainty regarding the pon-annually. another tea-producing Golden Band Rivers, Szechwan tical outlook continues to restrict and tea export centre."
annually produces 10,000,000 lbs. of business, but we see no reason tu
tea valued at over $2,000,000, alter our view that purchases on
Chinghai is another important
season.
profitable.
P'UECI TEA-
about
reccasions should ultimately prove The China National Tea Cor-frontier tea district, its annual poration, has concluded an agree-production being over 8,000,000 lbs. ment with the Provincial Govern- in addition, the region. ment for intensifying tea cultiva-yaan, an Important city in Sikang tion in Yunnan, Only the approval Province, has a total output" of. of Dr H.H. Kung. President of the 1,500,000 lbs. each year, This elty Messrs. The General Electre Executive Yuan and concurrently is also Company, Limited, Magnet House,
trading centre through Kingsway." London, W.C.2 have Minister of Finance, who himself which 10,000,000 pounds of tea received an order from the London takes deep interest in improving pass annually. The Szechwan- and North Eastern Railway for the the popular Pei tea, for export. Siang provincial governments are complete electric-traction train awaited to launch the whole considering the possibilities of The National Tea making Kwanhsien, northwest of equipment in connection with the programme. multiple-unit rolling stock required Corporation is meanwhile estab Chengtu, the manufacturing and for the Manchester-Glossop-lishing a chain of tea improvement trading centre of brick tea for ex- Hadfield section of the 1,500-volt stations In Yunnan. Manchester-Shemeld Line electri fication scheme. it
The total tea output Yuchen a là 8,000,000 treat tr
of
nort to Soviet, Russia, and of mak- ing Yaan the chief tea market fo 6tkang and Tibet.
calis
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