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HONGKONG, THUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1920.

BRITISH TRADE-

PROSPECTS IN CHINA.

By HERBERT A. FLEET. A.M.1.E.E.,

in The Empire Mail.}

KAISER'S SINISTER

DIAMOND.

TRADIO STORY OF THE "BLAZE OF GLORY.""

CURSE OF THE AGES..

of the mill, were mostly manufactured in Arteries and supplied in a Chinese syndicate, the mill eventually being taken over by some Japanese, As the average Chinese coole is skilful, and with tactful supervision is quick) in learning to carry out methods in The writer of the following import-sequence, which finally produce a ant article is a well-known British satisfactory output, from the above it! electrical engineer who has travelled can be concluded that the Japanese

A great and brilliant diamond, said extensively in Europe, the Far East, find It profitable to ovest capital in by tradition to have been given by Australia South Africa, Canada, industries where cheap local labour King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba, America, and other countries, where can be obtained, and to-day Japanese which, after a career-of sinister in- he has been actively engaged in de-competition in cong piece goods influence, was incorporated in the Prus- veloping Beitish engineering enter-India is distinctly very serious. :

sian royal regalis, is the theme of a prises. Having recently returned OBSOLETE TRANSCORT METHODS,

wonderful romance forwarded by the from China he is in an exceptional With regard to hour, I am of New York correspondent of the position to supply information as to opinion theregle, likelihood of Central News. the huge requirements of that market trouble arising with wages. I was The story of the “ Blåze of Glory, and to show the lines along which engaged on the electr

ectrification of as the stone was called, is perhaps British Arms can help to develope the group of coal mines having an output the most fascinating in the history of country with advantage to China and of over 4,000,000 fans a year. These famous precious jewels. praße to themselves. He is con- mines employ many thousand. coolies. Engraved on one side of the dia- vinced that there is a rich barvest for and it surprised to learn the dis-mond, by the most cunning work, is those who join the movernment without tance a very large number of these the sacred sign of King Solomon, and delay. I

coolies walk to get to their work, any on the reverse a device atributed to whre within a radius of eight to mine the Queen of Sheba. The story goes One of the greatest problems which miles. On the winter evenings for that the wise King, carried away by England is confronted with at the pre-miles around the country would be the charm of Sheba's ruler, plucked sent juncture is the need for increased studded with their lighted lamps as the jewel from his turban and gave it production of manufactured goods and they came into work from the various to the Queen. machinery for exportation abroad. surrounding villages: there, being no

** RUIN) AND, BLOODSKED. Having recently returned from roads or hedges, they simply make a

Tales of the wonderful gem were car. China, where have been residing bee-fine from point to point. They ried by travellere into Persia, and the during the past few years, I am of are very industrious near their homes, greed of the nomadic King El-Hakin opinion that the prospect of British and round these villages there is ab-II. was soon excited. He marched Trade with China depends upon the solutely not a sabore yard of ground into the land of the unfortunate Queen. activity of British enterprise in this but what it is culated, and in many and robbed her body, which had been immense undeveloped country. Front cases they grow more milles and sweet mutilated by his soldiers, of the blood- my knowledge of the conditions I do car than they cause themselves for stained jewel. Two weeks later the wish our manufacturers would realise food, the surple being sent to the Shah was murdered by a subject in the possibilities of this market, are market. So long as aufficient his royal palace. teeming with people, most of whom rice is obtainable at a reasonable price are intelligent and skilful, who only to enable the Chinese coolie to get his require to be taught the use of many-fill. I think there little danger of factured goods. aher which the de-labour unrest, and the Japanese ap- mand would naturally follow, Machin-‡pear to realise this.

ery is also required to develop. China's. As there are neroads for transporta vast mineral wealth, from which the tion, in my option aeroplanes, will industrial nations the world could figure largely in the development of obtain supplies of raw materia), China, especially in the Interior, for So far as I can gather the present handling merchandise, as the present demand is so heathy in the home method, by camel trains is very slow. markets that manufacturers do not feel and the total weight carried is very that they should worry about the cubsmall for the time taken on the jour tivation of foreign fields. This isney. :: doubtless a very short-sighted poliøy,

And so, from year to year, the diamond wrought its evil influence on every ruler, potentate, ince, and family, sooner or later, which becaDC associated with in Possession of the sinister gem spelt ruin, and often bloodshed, to the owner, and recent history seems to have continued its fateful tradition of misfortune.

BRANDENBURG'S PRIZE

In the Middle Ages, the Margrave. (or Marquis) de Brandenburg, whose kingdom was the nucleus around which The Japanese at making very rapid sprang up the Prussian dynasty, in 1s in the course of the next two or headway in China, and while they are making one of his accustomed raids three years the home fields will probin possession singao, they have Silesia, captured a Jewish merchant, in the neighbouring country of

shly be approaching a point of satura excellent maiting for distributing their whose collection of goods contained non, and it would only be prudent il goods through the country. The the in-starred diamond. manufacturers made a cast iron rule Germans made this port where sleam Promptly the Kaiser's ancestor to set aside a limited portion of their ere can go direct to the Band or Quay seized the shining gem and swore to present production and regard this as to discharge their cargoes, the Bund make it adorn the crown of a great seed to plant in China. This being connected with the existing rail-kingdom, of which his family was to would in due time mature, and as the way cerwork of the country.

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home demand became weaker they The British at present have the be the head.

Aware of the curse the diamond

would then be established in the jurisdiction of large stretch of ter Orient in such a manner that what ritory in the Shantung province, their carried with it the merchant ven- ever output they were capable of headquarters being near & towns hay.tured to warn the marquis, bet for hig would be in demand in a field whiching. population of 200,000, situated boldness met his death by the ruler's orders on the castle walls the same e practically unlimited. From my on large bay which constitutes a

night. knowledge of electrical progress since natural harbours. This could accom-

WILHELM WARNED. 1900, during which period I have been modate the largest ships afloat and associated with large undertakings at lends itself to the construction of the treasure was handed down from Apparently without great incident, home and abroad, the development of Bund or Quay for the economical king to king until it came into the the use of electricity on the North handling of goods. It is within easy lands of the monarch now in exile at East Coast in the shipbuilding and distance for connecting with the pre- |Amerongén»– engineering industries, the electrifica tion of the North Eastern, Mersey, and London and South Western Rail ways, its application in the driving of textile mills and collieries in York shire, there is no doubt whatever that The Germans appear to have real-ed to the gem which adorned their at present, China is ripe for cultiva-ised the possibiles in China, some

The keeper of the Prussian jewel- tion in the use of manufactured pro-time ago, judging from the huge resi ducts and the development of indus dences which they have been able to house, the late Herr Graff Zunkel- build and matsrain. They evidently horn, a learned antiquarian, had, how- FIELD FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINERY, found it a very profitable field to clever, kept its fateful history in mind. To assist in bringing this about rivate. For Bome considerable time He knew that to the years between manufacturers should realise the im- during the war they were not so close. 1919 and 1922 was assigned the portance of having direct communica- ly confined to prevent them from climax in the awful record of misfor tune and ruin marked out by the tion and representation in the Orient, communicating with servants, and

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sen railway perwork in Chinx, andIt had gained the central position. is not more than one hundred and fly in the crown of the House of Prussia. miles from a caratation where abun Later heads of the dynasty appear to dant supplies of coal are available...

have lost sight of the tradition attach- INTEGRITY OF CHINESE, MERCHANTS.

crown.

whereby their products can be placed carrying through transactions, which in He implored his royal master to

in the various markets, and displayed some measure, would assist in keeping

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in the most suitable manner to meet the boat afloat, umil such times as sup- rid himself of the jewel when he was- the local needs and taste. In the case plies were again available. Therefore to be crowned King of Prussia. Wil- of industrial development, their re British manufacturers should feanse holm's reply was presentative should be capable of sub- that now is the time to cultivate this You must understand that I am mitting a comprehensive scheme em- market and introduce British produc-owned by the spirit of God and the No bodying meir latest manufactured pro tions, and I feel sure the straightforwill of my people. The Hohenzol ducts, the most modern methods of ward business, methods of British lerns must endure for ever. application, and the latest practice manufacturers would be welcomed and curse of evil can harm bar dynasty." relative to the particular nature of would appeat to the Chinese mer So he was crowned with the "Blaze the undertaking under consideration.chants, who are most intelligent, and of Glory," and is to-day in eclipse. The industrial demand for electric the integrity in business is unques- energy is certainly growing, and it tionable. They are keen, in making

only remains for the people to be a deal, but once the terms and con- THIEVES CONVICT educated in the use of Western ditions are agreed you, can depend

machinery and methods to realise the upon them to carry out their obliga- various uses to which it can be aptions. While an enterprise ray be.

EACH OTHER.

plied, when the, demand would in- started under British auspices, much At the Magistracy yesterday after. crease enormously. There is a wide of the capital required may be obtain- noon, Mr. Irving concluded the hear field for development in the large ed locally, ether at the commence- ing in the case in which ten Chinese native towns and villages, where there ment, or by the disposal of shares at were charged with unlawfully receiv- are numerous, well-built merchants a later period in this way British ing stolen property, to wit: a large stores and business premises. A sup-capital is freed to loster further opera- quantity of drapery, identified as the ply would here be welcomed and therezlons. As here are others already in property of a travelling draper would be no great difficulty in in this field endeavouring to obtain mono-whose premises were broken into Buercing Chinese to invest capital inpolies, and as a stern chase is a long the night of the 6th inst the development of Industries once chase," should other countries estab they realised the increased output fish themsetes before the British we by the defendants in giving which can be obtained by the use of shall And it very much more difficult

to overtake them.

machinery.

After a long time had been spent

evidence against each other, his Worship decided that there was no evidence to convict the 4th, 5th, 6th While in the Orient I was called in

and 7th defendants, and discharged in an advisory capacity regarding the

A FAMILY NECESSITY them, The others were convicted. lay-out and the apparatus in comec lion with an electrically driven cotton VERY fainly should be provided Sentence of three months hard with Charoberlain's Pain Balm at labour was passed in the case of mill having capacity of 25,000.

All times grains, tay, be cared in Nos 1. 2 and 9, whilst the other spindles This mill-le_now running much as time when manptly treated three Nos. 38-and-10) who had Itwentytwo hours a day and seven day: Lame to, laine siquider,, pairs in the previous convictions recorded against. -week supplied with quite a good as so thestr and rubratie pains are them, were sentenced to the months-

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