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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1924.

COMMERCE AND FINANCE,

TOBACCO GROWING.

AMERICAN LEAF IN SHANTUNG,"

crude.

MOROCCO:

PLIGHT OF SPANIARDS.

(Reuters Service.)

London, September 11.

occupied except Centa rind Melilla.

L. OF. N.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CHINA'S PRESIDENT.

LORD PARMOOR'S VIEW, (Reuter's Service)

"FRENCH PRESS COMMENT.

LU YUNG-HSIANG, ON HIS FAULTS.

“THE "JAZZ" AGE,

{BY DIANA BOURBON.J

to

a

LIVING FOR EVER.

IS IT NECESSARY TO DIE?

ENGINEER'S SECRETA

Atroplanes, too, have for

Aeroplanes,

London, July 29:--The big "Fly- ing Scotsman" locomotiva, which “A Parisian market gardener has Shanghai is being kept alive in has aroused so much admiration in A STRONG MANIFESTO, Genova, September 11.

made the discovery that carnations the warm weather by a discussion the Palace of Engineering at In the central part of Shantung

Speaking in the Third Committee province Chinese tobacco has been

A quos gluony view of the

and cyclamons "will tremble and on the question whether it is neces- of the Assembly on armament

Shanghai, September 6: In a

sary for folk to die. Under the Wembley, is an apt illustration of oxtonsivoly cultivated for poetries. Spanish position in Morocco is reduction, Lord Parmoor said that manifesto issued on September 3, turn the other way" when they hear heading "Man the arbiter of his the way in which engineers are The best product ponies from

taken by the "Manchester no scheme would be perfect as long Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang denounc jazz band. As a matter of fact fate a corresponent has taken up able by graceful lines to give an Anchou, Changyi, Changlo, and

Guardians Paris corespondents (ermany, was not a member of ed Teno Kun in no measured terms I would never have suspected the the question in a somewhat occult Impression of speed and power to Weibsien. Tobeco from these

who says that there is now hardly the League and subject to its and called upon the people to pay carnation particularly of having manner, but he gives the follow their mechanical productions. regions is highly valued and corn<

nny doubt that the Spanish defent obligations and benefits. When

the necessary price for a true and funds a good price on the Shan in the Riff is irremediable. The that time came, Britain would pre- the manifesto (as taken from the any hard thoughts I may have down to earth"

Ing quotation from the "Scientific lasting peace. The substance of such good taste. I apologize for American" to bring the subject mechanical engineer of the Lon- Mr. H. N. Gresley, the chief

leaves are small and of inferior Rinians are almost under walls of sent a specific proposal for con- Chinese Press) is given below entertained of it la the past, and lang market. However, the native,

don and North-Eastern Rallway, Tetuan. Communications with

Men of unquestioned scientific who designed the engine, told a sideration. quality and the method of drying is Ceuta are cut and the Spanish

Tsao Kun, having stolen the promise to be more considerate of standing agree that the essential" Daily Mail" reporter that its ap- Paris, September 11, Practically, all the lenf expeditionary force of from 70 to 80

Presidency by a bribed election,my judgment in the future. The tissues of the body are potentially pearance was not a mare accident. grown in Shantung is consumed in thousand are in a desperate plight bed at what they describe as the disturbing our country. When at may be in a minority, but we are cidents, we ought never to die! from a practical point of view I The newspapers are most grati- has been violating our laws and carnation, the cyclamen, and myself Immortal, and that, barring ac When I had designed the engine the province, as the demand for tobacco both for old-style pipes and/ and barely able to hold their own of Anglo-French rapprochement at Paoting, he expelled Hsu Shih-affinities-we do not like jazz.

narrow strip of territory plone, to

This is the newest evidence that tried to make it look as attractive cigarettes is large and growing the sea.

They hang and welcomed Li Yuan Geneva yesterday. The town of Shesha phasise the importance of the hung, pretending that he was gardener was experimenting in the evidence, not theory, Experiments Captala Adrian Jones, the

It is rumoured that this particular Science has to offer, and it is as possible," he said. especially for the milder ginder.

During the German occupation of/-with a Spanish garrison of tenantions statement of Lord Parinoor upholding-the-Constitutional-prin effect of music on various plants. which point to this conclusion have sculptor told a “Dally Mail”. thousand is completely cut off at the question of sanctionsciples. Seeing through his dupli-at-ease one fails to understand been successfully carried out for a reporter yesterday that he did not Kinochow, says the. "Chinese Bronomic Bulletin," of Pulsing, the bally attempt to organise a general

General Primo De Rivera will pro-requid muideration-ne-on-teemally, we were the first to repudiate how he came to include a jazz band number of years, and we now have.

his action against which public in the proceedings at all. But the the final proof;

see how the Flying Scotsman" British Cigarette Company estah withdrawal from all territories still paint to arbitration..

locomotive could be improved. opinion in Hangchow and Shang- fact remains that he did, and that Hished an experimental plantation

The Petit Journal says that it hal strongly protested. This was the flowers took the opportunity of to keep alive by artificial means a "Were an artist to draw a picture A skilful surgeon has been able from an artistic point of view. at Pangtze, a railway station mid-

now appears that in case of war the first occasion on which the showing their superior discrimina- a bit of tissue for a longer time of an imaginary locomotive which way between Tsinan' and Tsingtao, after unsuccessful experiments at

France will be exnetly in the same people of Kiangsu and Chekiang ton.

than the natural span of life of the was intended to express the idea opposed Tsao.Kun." Weiling. The company obtained to help the farmers to destroy the position as in July 1924.

Perhaps, after all, this is the animal itself. "L'Oeuvre" points out that for

The remarkable of speed and power," he said, "it » the free Brid

When he forced Li Yuan-hung from

terman insects, administration, and seeds were

esh seeds from America" give the first time Lord Parmoor when flee and instituted a régime of beginning of the end of jazz. thing is that the tissue is no longer is quite likely that it would not do imported Front Virginia for experi- the best results, although soods using the word "sauction did not bribery and corruption, the M.Perhaps, after all the death subject to the influence of time, so as effectively as this engine.

"The appearance of mechanical ment. Fater the plantation was from plante which have been qualify it by word "economit representing Kiangsu and Che knell of this indigestible form and there is no doubt that if pro-

Matin ways that if Britain klang again preceded those of of music has sounded I Fancy, perly cared for it will live inde productions is improving generally. moved to Erb-shih-fi-pu, a sailway cultivated in the locility for one or

you can, the ballroom finitely-for ever, if you would Motor-cars are now graceful things, is really determined to lend the aid other provinces in coming down to station between Fangtze auf Wet two years stand the clinic of het famidable Beet to attack the south and exposing the proofs lyrical joy into which it is safe to Alexis Carrol, of the Rockefeller heepning once more a place of have it so. The surgeon is Dr. lien, where it new product has ditintis-better and give equally-good-

the scandalous

venture without ear pads. Fancy Institute, New York, and his ex- ioun developed, the sale of which results if they have been properly countries, it will put France and of bribes, to

Indignation of our whole country. DOW amounts -10 $2,000,000 selected and have not been allowed Britain shoulder to shoulder.

**Gaulois"

that Lord This was the second occasion when dancing all night through to the periment is with a bit of connec annually.

to mix with Chinese tobaccos.

The local farmers do not yet Purmoor's declutation is a valuable our people of Kiangsu and Cha. soothing lure of stringed instrutive tissue of the heart of an, the most efficient aeroplanes are

he has kiang manifested their oppositionments, instead of being harried embryo chick, which

desperate kept alive for eight years. This to Tsao Kun.

When Tsap Kun usurped the determination in which the ball experiment alone may not be conducted conclusive, but in connection with Presidential Palace, in spite of room marathon is

nowadays, by the tom tom. Sup- the work of other scientists its universal disapprobablon, 'Genova, September 12.

the The Assembly has referred to the Kiangsu Educational Association posing we have tune again without meaning becomes clear. Not only of the scientist, the statement is agenda committee a joint resolu passed a resolution fixing October noise, rhythm without syncopation, is it possible to cultivate artificially none the less significant.

an The remarkable development tion in the name of the British, as another National Humiliation Syncopation without the military the growing life cells of French and Belgian delegates Day to commemorate this dis tactics of Africa! I begin to believe embryo chick, but this has also cently brought about has been the

usurpation, while

hope for been done with cells, muscle observation that the culture is no inviting this Council to watch honourable attentively the events in Georgia patriotic M. P.'s requested us to civilization; that life may again cells, epithella cells from various fanger subject to the influence of and to seize the opportunity to despatch a punitive expedition capture some of that charm of locations in the body, kidney time. There is no apparent age enable the country to return to a against our national traitor to set tous leisure which this un-cells, and connective tissue cells.ing" of the individual cells, and "We may fairly say, I believe,” under naiform conditions the state of peace.

M. Bontour for an example to our whole country. healthy thing has wrested from us.

I remember a friend once des says Prof. Raymond Pearl, of John tissues continue a. uniform rate of Franer, on behalf of the three This was the third time when the

that the growth. 'Blatter of fact as it delegations sud that in the face of Kiangsu and Cheklang people cribing Strauss's "Electra" as "an Hopkins, Baltimore, bleed it seemed desirable for voiced their opposition to Tsao epileptic. At set to music. But for potential immortality of all the sounds, it is a venture out into

some eight years we have been fessential..cellular clements of the the-sea-of-darkness as dramatic>- dining, dancing, teaing, gyrating body either has been carried faras, but perhaps more far-reaching to the musical celebration not of enough to make the probability than, the voyage of Columbus. After making some compliment one fit only, but every kind of fit very great that properly conducted Our bodies are potentially im ary remarks as regards the on-known to medical science. Unless experiments would demonstrate mortal. lightenment and progressiveness there is a new disease to celebrate, the continuance of life to any of the two provinces and the high beg leave to move: "Something Indefinite extent,” intellect and pure character of their new." ........ Something really

Couched in the cautious language people, as well as about these two new, mes enfants. We have pro- provinces being the centure of Kressed from Africa and the banjo culture and the necessity of as far as the saxophone and al preserving them from molestation spiritual home in the South Sea until the situation has cleared up, Islands. But I think we can do tle manifesto says that unfortunate better will. The something new, ly the higher the knowledge, the that is the cry of the age. Why more intensely the traitor desires not this time let it take the form of to crush them; the richer the prize, a beautiful thing-in the ballroom? the more covetous the orch robber becomes, aiming to secure it.

Reference is here made to the

Alter experiments proved to be successful, America tobacco was understand the importance of introdured to the farmers of the selecting the best plants for seed, region to promote the growth of and they often plant native leaf in better and inore marketable grodes. this field with that imported, Which Free seeds were distributed each means hyliridization. and lower year, and the best methods of grow-quality for all plants. The stuff of ing were demonstrated. Free seeds to the foreign company is trying to the value of $20,000 annually are teach growers not to mix the two imported from Aineries by the com- kinds of tobacco, but the effort to piny. Furthermore, promises and far Ims lügely been a failure, guarantees ore given tear the pro- The gates of a plant are divided ducts and oftentimes lous are into four elusses. The first three advanced for latine delivery. It is for four leaves from the bottom are

this encouragement that felled ground leaves.

The next

due to

BILVH

satisfaction to the French thesis but that it cannot repler the mutual assistance treaty...

SYMPATHY FOR GEORGIANS.

cultivation of Ausrican lend as four or five above are middle leaves, developed to its present prosperity. Those shave the middle are nature

The British Cigarette bu enves, and the top one are the Assembly to make a gesture. does not own any land or buildings leaves. At larvest the picking at Erslihlipu, or anywhere else in begins with those at the bottom gist which no state could take Shantung province except at About two weeks later the second rage. We heard talk of peace Here this company, inver is picked, and another wet blood was flowing, which is a part of the British-wooks puss before the natural that before they left Geneva Mr. Ramsay "MacDonald and M. Company's leaves are gathered, The sky

Herriot received an appeal from Georgia..

Tsingito-

American

Toharo

organisation, has the fallowing leaves are the last to be gathered. buildings: One power house. This there are Tour: pickings a three godowns' each with a floor sunson, with two weeks between space of 25,000 sq. ft., one buying them.

He mon-

HONDURAS OUTBREAK...

BS, SAILORS LANDED,

(Reuter's -American Service,)

Washington, September 11. A hundred sailors from the United States cruiser "Rochester" landed at Ceiba on the north const of Honduras, en route to Tela to guard the American Consulate.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

"APRIL SHOWERS,”

room and assorting room in a build- The native method of drying is ing costing $60,000. #carpenter erude. Four or five leaves are and machine shop, a school build pucked in a wooden frame made of ing, two residences for foreign staff | free brunches and dried in the sun. and many residences for Chinese Drying takes ten or twenty days. staff. The total cost of the fore After the leaves turn greenish going buildings, including brown they are packed for the machinery, amounts to $1,500,0001 | umarket. The company buys the tobucto The British Cigarette Company: direct from the farmers, who bring has introduced methods of drying the tobacco into the compound by artificial lent, wing small brick rented by the company for the pur-houses with mud roof, usually pose of handling leaf tobacco, and native structures. In a house iron See it weighed on scales which pipes are installed and connected they have the privilege of testing at with a store outside. Coal is used any time. Then the iner is told has fuel. The hot air passes from by the company's buyer the price the stove into the iron pipes and the it is willing to pay. If the price room is kept at a temperature ol offered is unsatisfactory, the farmer about 100 degrees during drying. may take the tobacco a way and sell Four or five leaves are packed to anyone be wishes. Every year together in straw frames and hung the company imports fresh seed on wooden racks in the room. The from Ainecia, This is given to the leaf is kept in the room for three or farmers, who, however, are not four days, at the end of which time obliged to well their leaf to the the colar becomes brown. The compray.

cost of installing the iron pipes and When the farmer harvests, has stove is about $10. Although in crop and the leaves are ready, for 1917, there were only a few drying market, he goes to the company to rooms owned by the farmers, Kid McCoy and Johnny Buff, the arrange 11 appointment for present there are over 6,000 such delivery.

He receives a paper dryers built by the farmers of from the company's clerk with the Neilsen, Anefia, Chucheng, und date of delivery on it. He puts Changlo. down the quantity of leaves he has, The estimated cost of tobacco and brings them to the inspection production gu one mow of land is roon on the appointed fiate. The as follows: company's inspectors examine the Land Rent ...

.$12.00

18.00 2.00 7.20 9.00 18.00

leaves and sort them into grades, of | Fertilizer 550 kin of bean which twenty are recognised. A enke)

list of prices of all grades is issued Tax for agricultural goods.. Tabour (see following list) from time to time.

At the station the size of the staff | Deying expenses .......... varies, but there are in the neigh | Cont

bourhood of 20 foreign employees,

9 Chinese- helpers, 20 carpenters and 10 blacksmiths,

During the

The

season begins in September, and May, Planting

864.20

busy season the company employe At the present price of leaf, from 300 workmen in packing, dressing $18 to $20 per 100 pounds, a and redrying the leaven, During farmer must produce 500 pounds or the rest of the year the regular so in order to cover expenses. workmen number about 30.

The following estimato is of the daily wages for these workmen are inbour needed for one mow of land: from 20 to 50 conts, The 'busy

6 days* labour.

bdays' labour, 5 days' labour, | Jung. Destroying insects, During April or the first part of

6 days' labour. Moy, seeds are sown in beds and Aug., Picking leaven 4 days' labour. covered with fine soil. Protection Aug.. Drying. 4 days labour. is given from the high wind, and

luste till March of the following June, Cutting the top leaves, year

The output per day during the busy season is from 200 to 260 June. Weeding

tonu.

A carefully selected cast of Irish players contributed to making "April Showers" a true picture story of Irish folk, Those who claim association with the Emerald Isle are Tom Forman, the director, Colleen Moore, and Ken- neth Harlan, hero and heroine, world-pugilists who assisted in the boxing scenes.

|

Kun.

THE ARCH ROBBER.

into that state of

that there is yet

Not one of us, of course, would admit it in this life, but who has not sometimes satlistening through

incorporation of Tsang and Yang the early part of dinner to an in the Chekiang Army, which is orchestra dreaming out music- now used as a pretext to make even these same jazz tunes-and in wár: úpon Cheklang. As Tsang ] his secret heart been wafted away. and Yang hold principles dancing to that music as one borne diametrically opposed to the gently on a breeze? But when ülegal President Tsao Kun, of the proper time and the liqueurs course they could not be tolerated and coffee have arrived, it is to a for a moment, just as for a long vastly different enchantment that time Cheklang has not been tolerat- the dancing is actually done. The ed. However, without Tsang and. familiar blare of brass has brought Yang's coming some pretext or its restlessness to set feet tapping, another would doubtless be found while even the noisemakers them. to satiate the traitor's greediness selves sway and spring in a kind with regard to Chekiang

of agony of rhythmic unrest.

mon traitor.

PEACE-MONGERS DENOUNCED,

If such an arch traitor is not

We dance, but the joy has gone removed, our people can never out of dancing. We dance in a sleep in peace; our people should kind of "horrid, determined-des- exert their utmost strength to peration-like Sisyphus trundling punish him. As this is chiefly for his stone up the hill. Can it be the purpose of self-defence, they jazz has brought us to this? Or is need feel no hesitation, especially jazz merely the expression of our their army have all the right on having got there anyway? Is it, in Although “April Showers" con- their side

and are sure to other words, what they call " an cerns Irish folk, it was not made achieve victory over, their com epitome of our age? I for one- in Ireland but relates to one of

no, for three; the carnation and those communities on the lower

the cyclamen are with me in East Side of New York. The con-

It is natural for people In Klang-this-refuse to be epitomized by tagious fun usually associated 5 and Chekiang who are well jazz. Can anyone imagine a fate with life in tenements has been known to be well-off and who have more awful than to be handed bean accustomed to live in com- down to fame and posterity, in the truly presented in this picture.

How an Irish immigrant falls in fortable conditions for many years history and science books of some to wish to be left alone, without three thousand years hence, as his ambition to join the police, caring for the right or wrong of the The Jazz Age"? Like becomes a boxer and gets knocked-case which might well be left to carnation, at the mere thought I out, unwittingly enrages nis posterity to decide; but will" tremble and turn the other colleen by paying harmless atten- they always be left in peace? way. tion to a slum mission lady and Can they really expect to Bnally emerges triumphant from enjoy a true and lasting pence all his troubles is the theme of without paying any price? If the this unusually clever film.future generations should suffer "April Showers," a Preferred because of their forefathers' pro- Picture, is being screened at the crastination, would they not be Queen's Theatre at 5.15 and 9.15. beld equally blamable for their neglect of duty to their homesteada as well as for their lack of patriotism to their country?

1

STAR THEATRE.

Those who are still advocating peace at this late stage are not "THE WORLD'S CHAMPION." different from those householders who, when robbers have entered Kowloon cinema patrons have their premises, blame those who try been loud in their praises of "The those who let the robbers go as to capture the robbers, and praise World's Champion," the current peacemakers. The enlightened Star Theatre attraction in which classca, I hope, will guide the Paramount feature Wallace Reid, masses of the two provinces to the the smiling, versatile screen hero path of duty. We must endure who seems to have played in some momentary pain before we nearly every role imaginable. can hope to enjoy a permanent Thore is little that can be classed peace. as unusual in the plot but it is Wally's clever acting, his winning

Signed:LU YUNG-HSIANG,' mannerisms and Lois Wilson's charming smiles, which make the picture what it is.

water in applied frosly. In the The demand for this tobacco is course of 16 or 16 days the seed increasing, and those connected lings come out. When these are with the improvement work point strong enough they are transplanted with pride to the fact that the avor to a field where they are set two age value of leaf produced about feet sport. One mow of land may Tsingtao has quadrupled in the ten place from 3,500 to 4,000 plants.or eleven years since this propage After the first rain fortilizer is tion of foreign sced was started. applied, and when the plant has 14 With the increased price the pro- to 10 leaves, the tou part is cut off duction of tobacco itself has been to allow the lenver fail develophagely increased Beader the ment.

British firmette Company, there Insects are the greatest enemy to is the Nanyang Brother which the plante, A method of destruc started a plantation at Fangize in

Marchol Lu Yung-hslung, in des tion formerly much in use, and yet 1928, and a Japanese company in

ference to a joint 'request from his to be seen, is shooting into the air now buying tobacco in that locality disagreeable to be troubled with palos General Ho Fengine, assumed It is most anoying, as well subordinate officers, hended by over the fields. Sometimes big for export to Japan. With the in the stomach, and there is no need of the new title of Commander-in- fires are lighted near the fold et extending trade, the future of the it, for ane dose of Chamberlain Collo Chief of the United Army Fot night to attract the insects.As & product is bright, tobacco having and Diarrhoes Remedy will alley the Cheklang and Shangla tym, part of its programme the British already become one of the principal pain. Bold everywhere. Cigurette Company sends out men products of the province.

on September 4, at Hungchow.

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All these years, while we have observed' old age'creep upon a man and finally lay him low, and have said," It is inevites able-it is the fate of all," we have been wrong. The change in cell structure which accompanies old age is not the cause of old age, buts. the result. What, then, is the span of human Hfe? "Four score yeare and ten?" Actually the average is” less than that. So far the pro- bability that a man would die of disease has been so great that there was little chance of his Hving the maximum of years. Considerable progress has been made in the fight on disease, but we have been so busy with that fight that litle has been done in a scientific way to push back the hundred year mark which seema to have been the limit

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