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AMERICA'S CHINA TRADE.
BETTER IN SPITE OF TROUBLES.
GREATER GREENOCK
JUNE 22, 1927.
WEDNESDAY,
TELEVISION AT 438 MILES.
MAN IN LONDON SEEN
OPPOSED.
PORT GLASGOW AND GOUROCK PLEASED.
IN GLASGOW.
moro
The following interesting in- The promoters of the Greenock Television was accomplished by formation regarding America's Burgh Extension Order have ex-Mr. John L. Bujrd in mail week in trade with China has been compressed surpriso and disappoint- test arranged specially for the pfied by Janet II. Nunn of the ment at the decision of the Select Daily Mail over. 438 miles of tele- Far Eastern Section, Division of Committee of the Houso of Com-phond line between Motograph Regional Information. Bureau of mons in rejecting the scheme for House, Upper St. Martin's-lane, Foreign and Domestic Commerce, amalgamation of the three burghs London, WC, and the Central. Washington, and deals with the of Greenock, Gourock, and Port- Hotel, Glasgow.
Glasgow. first quarter of the present year:
This eclipses the 200-miles test Although the adverse military The proposals, in so far as they in the United States in April be and political situation continued related to the annexation by Gree-tween New York and Washington, to curtail the normal expansion of nock of the adjoining burghs of and is a preliminary to an export- China's import and export trade Gourock and Port-Glasgow, were ment to be made shortly in accing during the first quarter of 1927, rejected, and with regard to the across the Atlantic between London some favourable conditions en-two County areas in Renfrewshire and New York.
Mr. Baird is the British scientist couraged tradera. General quiet which it was sought to add to the prevalled in areas outside of the Burgh of Greenock, that adjoining who first demonstrated television in and his achievement battle-grounds and depleted stocks Port-Glasgow has been refused, 1925,
technical im- of foreign merchandise ordinarily while about one-half of the other embodies many supplied from American sources County area, lying to the south provements, including a required replenishing. The settle-east of Gourock, will be added to rapidly obtained synchronisation ment of the Hongkong shipping the Burgh of Greenock subject to between transmitter and receiver. In the laboratory at Motograph dimeultles had also released for the adjustment of the boundarylouse were Mr. Baird, some tech-: exportation the products
between the respective Author of
"At Southern China piled up.
ities. Sir Josenh Nail, the chair-nical assistants, and myself. at. Canton and the shifting of the man, announced that the Com-the Central Hotel, Glasgow, were basis of military operations open-mittee had reached the decision Capt. O. G. Hutchinson, one of Mr. Baird's co-workers, together with ed ap the markets of North outlined above by a majority.
Professor E. Taylor Jones, Profes. Following the announcement of China.
The United States accordingly the Committee's decision, Mr. Wat-sor of National Philosophy at Glas- piled up a total trade with the said he did not anticipato any difcolleague of mine,
son, for the County of Renfrew, gow University, and a newspaper Two ordinary Post Office tele- whele of China aggregatng $80-culty in arriving at an immediate phone lines were used. Over one 143,000, including $8.230.000 for settlement between the County and conversation was carried on, while Hongkong and
the Burgh as to the boundary of Kwangtung which was a guin of the County area
to be added to over the other was sent the tele- 7.2 per epat. over $74.228,000 for Greenock.
vision transmission. the 1926 period. Exports to
Compact Receiver. The rejection of the amalgama- Ching amounted to $33,499,000, as tien Bill is a severe blow to Gree-fected is now so compact that it The receiver Mr. Baird has per- advance of 2.2 per cent.. while nock, and particularly to the Cor-stood on an ordinary table in one iniports footed up $16,614,000, anporation, who up till the last, were of the rooms of the Glasgow hotel. increase of 11.6 per cent. The confident that their case would go value of exports to Chinn proper through. The result is considered transmitter and, by means of 31r. I took my place in front of the remained practically unchanged, to be a triumph for Sir James
for $2,074,000
the increase depending wholly Lithgow, who was one of the lead-Bird's improved "electric eye," the Upon Hongkong and Kwantung'sing opponents of the measure. In image of my head and shoulders share, while Import changes were Part-Glasgow and Gourock, the de- was flashed over the telephone line distributed.
cision has given the liveliest satis and reproduced upon the ground- During the first quarter of faction. Port-Glasgow
glass screen of the receiver in Glas- strongly 1927, the United States sold China resented the claims of her big sow, where my colleague stood as a whole 92,024 bales of raw neighbour. That Greenock his watching cotton, or 300 per cent, more than been thwarted in her ambitionsim over the spare telephone line. "Did you see me?" I called to during the 1926 period, realizi will prove costly for the rate-Yes, distinctly,"
was his im- from the transaction $6.957.000, a payers..
mediate reply, and then as further gain of $3,660.000: Exports of The proceedings on the Bill have tests I turned my head this way and iron and steel, valued at $2,087, lasted for 21 days, and, allowing that, and opened and shut my eyes 000 also showed an advance of for the final sitting to-morrow and mouth, each movement being distant per cent, while shipments of will have occupied only one day
observed clearly on the automobiles, Increased 15 per cent. less than the Glasgow Bill two gasoline 500 per cent.. copper 164 years ago. per cent. and dyes 64 per cent. There were, however, lasses in- curred in sales of machinery, lumber, kernsene, cigarettes and tabacen, which reduced these gains [appreciably.
Two commodities, raw silk and furs, were responsible for the bulk of the increase in imports from China into the United States during the first three months, of
WORK HARDER THAN SUPERSTITION.
WHY AMERICAN NEGRO IS LAZY,
screen.
Representatives of other people," and of various objects, were also "televised" from London to Glas-
gow with equal success.
"The technical, improvements I have now effected," said Mr. Baird, "make it mainl a question of greater power to be able to see a person or a scene" which is thou- sands of miles distant,"
Last month some of Mr. Baird's experts left England for the United States to arrange for a de-
1027. Purchase of silk wortli You must wear a silver coin as $15,400,000 represented an in-tached to your ankle if you would Crease of $1,814,000 or 13. per be protected from bad luck of allonstration of seeing, as well as of bearing, across more than 3,000 while furs valued- at kinds.
and New York. Transmission will
Icent..
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$6,652,000 showed an advance of You must, alternatively, carry miles of ocean between London $2,955,000. We also bought more grave-yard dirt, reptile dust, jay be by wireless and not by cable. tio, goatskins and bristles, but birds, and particularly the most legs wood oil, tea, silk fabrics and polent of "anti-hoodoos," the left huirnels,
hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, taken at midnight by a redheaded, cross-eyed negro riding a white
NINGPO QUIET.
VIRULENT ANTI-BRITISH
POSTERS.
Ningpo, June 11.
mule...
For Everyday Use. The first half-dozen Baird "tele- visors" which are intended for or dinary use are now in construc- tion. Experimental transmissions, in the form of a first regular tele-- These instructions and many vision programme, will be wireless- other similar ones, commonly ac- cepted among the Southern need from a special station: After- groes in the United States for wards it is hoped that by arrange- many years, have only begun to be ment with the British Broadcast- dispelled owing to the influence ofing Corporation vocalists singing. Since the departure for Nanking education, says Professor N. Not speakers viving an address will of "General Wang," there have Puckett, of Western Reserve Uni- also be transmitted on the "tele- visor," enabling people with re- been évidences of student and versity. radical agitation. This has been
Professor Puckett, in order to ceiving apparatus to watch as well directed almost exclusively against compile the material for a book, as hear. Japanese and British rms. All posed as a "hoodoo" doctor, there- At present on a comparatively advertisements put by these by learning all the superstitions small image is transmitted. But nationals have been smeared with and "miraculous" cures common bigger pictures are merely a ques- tar- or otherwise disfigured. There among the negroes, who still ad-tion of technical development.
The prispect opened out is that has been no really hostile outbreak here to the old beliefs.
however. H.M.S. Serapis has mov- The Professor describes also in course of time we shall be able ed from the A. P. pontoon to a certain powders which were potent to sit at home and watch, hundreds position farther up the river so in driving undesirables out of town for thousands of miles away, horse- na to be well placed in event of any by being sprinkled in the shoes, races, the beauties and wonders of
foreign lands! diffeülty, not that they expect any irritating the feet and compelling but simply as a measure of easy the victim to keep running in the evacuation of foreigners in case of hone of obtaining relief. trouble.
The negro has a much stronger There is a distinct connexion faith in the pulency of buzzard The Chinese are saying that between magic and the proverbial grease than elbow grease to bring General Wang was sent for by laziness of the negro, he says him what he wants. Chiang Kai-shek either for the
of taking away purpose
his power and dismissing him from Chekiang or else to augment his power and
strengthon his hand. He is on his way back to Ningpo now, which, they say, is evidbnec that he is to enjoy greater backing in his endeavour to preserve order. He is not well liked locally, but who is?
.Port Quiet.
10-
The port is quiet just at pre- sent and the strike of ten-boys has ended, although the Hsin Peking came up from Shanghai without Chinese passengers and with only a few foreign pasSSON- gers, Even without a firm straining hand upon them, the C. P. students and agitators have not broken out radically, Virulent anti-British posters have boon the main expressions of hatred. One sees a more hopeful prospect of settling down, here in Ningpo,
The Chinese American Hospital is crowded with patients and a spirit of loyalty and co-oporation exista. The local government has bean sympathetic and has not dis- turbed our work. The new hos pital building is slowly but steadily gong up and we have had no outside labour Inter- ferences,
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