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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.]. THE IRISH CRISIS.
THE LAST CHANCE.
LONDON, September 18th. The Prime Minister's blunt decision cancelling the proposed frish conference, at Inverness, in consequence of the ob durate attitude of Sinn Féin, is approved on all hands.
TER HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17xx, 1981;
LATEST CABLES. THE ARBUCKLE CASE. DISTRICT ATTORNEY OPPOSES BAIL.
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́ LATEST CABLES. OUR LONDON LETTER. BRITISH TRADE SHIP."
A good deal of amusement was extract- EFFECT OF TAXATION ON THE od from the evidence of witnesses who ar EARL GREY'S HOPES,
LANDED CLASS.
peared before the House of Commons Com-
În & Chemises from Paria, opi LONDON, September 18th
DUKE OF PORTLAND'S LAMENT TO
mittes appointed to consider the Perform Telegraph. Company states that the
Sth, the correspondent, of the Exe SAN FRANCISCO,. September 18th.
Earl Grey, describing the British 'trade
HIS TENANTS,
ing Animals Bill. After the Grand Jury's indictment of ship scheme, said that two
The idea of the pro- publishes an account of a wirelses
Arbuckle on a
moters of this piece of legislation is to sage received from the New York [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) the Judge fixed bail at $3,000 cash, but charge of manslaughter,
indice Parliament to prohibit stage per in New York was reproduced and
in which the handwriting of the would clapse before the vessel could start the District Attorney declared that bail
LONDON, August 11th, formances in which animals appear. The if the recipient in Paris were des on her journey. He said that he did not PASSING or A BÓCIAL ORDER.
argument is that the training is neces Motin says: "If it had been force
over his correspondent's shoulder believe in quick revival of trade. was impossible, until the charge of mur-He was convinced that this ship, when the place to new," and it is hard to realise of showmen, like Mr. Sanger, of Cirous or that a treaty of the away, the
"The old order changeth. yielding Against this we have had a procession, could be appended to treaty by
sarily cruel and ought to be made illegal. that a diplomatic dor had been settled. "
signature, for inst time was ripe, would attract such attention which will be as complete when it is any cruelty. It is all done by kind.
that we are spectators of a social revolt-fame, ridiculing the assertion that there would have been that one spoke of tion that it would open the door on is finally effected as was the passing of bess. These experts held that if a trainer since yesterday
Yet all thin is actually par immense possibilities.
the Feudal system. The disappearance of inspires an animal with fear it will not to Paris wae as follows: The Je
The actual Commander R. W, Day, author, of the the county families is proceeding very go on the stage; and if anybody Times congratulates Le Matin upon ctual message sent from New scheme, said that, when in the East before rapidly, and this class, which has played treated a lion or an elephant his life These words were transmitted in
now method of wireless transmissi the war, he saw German ships running long have vanished for ever. The record
a large part in English life, will before would be in peril at subsequent perform minutes exactly in the form in which at a loss but paving the way for German of what has been going on since the end demonstrations by a dog that pretendedance by which this was
The Committee were treated to were written. The inventor of the to be drunk, a baboon riding a bicycle.
done engineer, M. Belin. and a canary that disapeared by means ally what is possible with ordinary
There is nothing really surprising of a clever conjuring trick. Imagine this graphic lines can also be done by wire
what has been accomplished.
Theore within the precincts of the Houses of transmission. For many years a dev Parliament without doubt an incident known as the "telewriter," has been THE EMPIRE CONFERENCE. unique in their long history!
commercial use in England adot countries by means of which the Ret bandwriting of the writer of a messe is reproduced at the other end of wire. The success of the operation this caso depends upon the simulta circuit by the pencil of the messag our use of two different electric currer which are automatically brought into What M. Belin has probably done is adapt this quite well-known method wireless transmission by the simultae eat wave length. ous employment of two currents of dife It has even bean z plied to the transmission of photograp and pictures.
It is noteworthy that the charges—men- Mr. Lloyd George's action has, untioned yesterday (manslaughter and mar doubtedly, been dictated by the recogni-der) relate to the single case in connee tion of the fact that the people of Great tion with the death of Miss Virginia Britain consider that the Government
Rappe. have gone to the utmost limit in their desire to attain a settlement. The dis,
appointment is even more acute in Ire "Iand than in Great Britain. A feeling of consternation has been produced in Dublin, where Mr. Lloyd George's step 'was totally unexpected.
The London Press, with few exceptions, comments briefly on the situation, owing to the lateness of the publication of the correspondence. The papers dwell. how ever, on the unquestionable evidence of fact that the trish outside the Sinn Fein Government are hungering for peace. The view is freely expressed that Mr. de Valera and his associates do not repre- Bent the present Irish feeling. It is thought that the short respite afforded by the delay mentioned in the Prime Minis ter's letter may cause this feeling to" be Coice vocal.
THE DELAY
LATER.
Th delay mentioned in Mr. Lloyd George's telegram to Mr. de Valera is due to the fact that Mr. Lloyd George is suffering from the effects of a chil! and will possibly be laid up for a few day's.
NOVEL LIBEL SUIT. MAYOR'S CHARGE AGAINST NEWSPAPERS.
New York, September 18th.. A unique libel suit will shortly be heard, in Chicago, where the Municipality Ja suing the thiengo Tribine for a sum of £2.500.000, also the Chicago Daily News for a similar amount, for criticising the Mayor's administrative and financial policy, which, it is alleged, has gravely impaired the city's credit. Unrepentant "the Chicago Tribune publishes a vigorous reply..
INDIAN AGITATORS.
ACTION BY GOVERNMENT.
SIL, September 16th. It is understood that a number of pro- minent agitators have been arrested.
OBITUARY.
LONDON, September 16th.. The death is announced of Sir John Bramston, G.C.M.G., C.B, D.C.L, who was Attorney-General in Hongkong from 1874 to 1870, and Assistant. Under-Secre- EARLIER CABLES.try of State for the Colonies from 1576
MR. DE VALERA'S FINAL NOTE.
LONDON, September 15th. Mr. de Valera's letter, which has been pablished in Dublin, accepts the invitr tion to Inverness in the terms of the closing clause in Mr. Lloyd George's let. ter of September. 8th, but re-affirms Ire land's independence as a sovereign
The
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to 1807. He was 50 years of age..
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS. ADMISSION OF "ESTHONIA" AND LATVIA.
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GENEVA, September 18th. The special commission for investigat. Mr. Lloyd George's letter to ascertaining the applications for admission into how the association of Ireland with the the League has unanimously decided to community
of anticus known as the Bri- favour the admission of Esthonia and tish Empire can best be reconciled, with Latvia, Irish national aspirations.
Dail Eireann has already been sun- The joint committee of the Council and
ratify to
the appointment of the Assembly has selected A. Beichmann representatives for the conference at (Norway) as tae final supplementary Inverness on September 20th:
judge of the International Court. A those selected as jadges are asked to com- municate acceptance or refusal before Sunday.
moned
Mr. de Valera deems it his duty in this final Note to re-affirm that Ireland has formally declared independence and re- cognises herself as a sovereign State, and, only as the representatives of such a State have her, chosen guardians the authority to act."
PREMIER CANCELS CONFERENCE.
LATER.
Mr. Lloyd George has telegraphed to Mr. de Valera cancelling the conference at Inverness in view of Mr. de Valern's reiteration of the claim to negotiate as the representative of an independent sovereign State, after the warning that this would make the conference impos-
Bible.
The Premier is consulting his colleagues in regard to the course necessitated by the new situation.
PREMIER'S TELEGRAM TO ME. DE VALERA.
State
The Joint Committee of the Council and the Assembly consists of the Coun- cillora, M. Hymans (Belgium), Dr. Well de Leon (Spain), and of the membora of ington Koo (China), and Senor Quinones the Assembly, M. Motta (Switzerland), Meinheer van Swinderen (the Nether lands), and M. Zahle (Denmark).
THE RUSSIAN FAMINE." INTERNATIONAL RELIEF COMMIS SION'S PROGRAMME.
PARIS, September 16th The International Commission of Relief
trade.
SOUTH WALES COAL.
DEMAND, FROM THE EAST,
LONDON, September 18th." There is an improved demand apparent for South Wales coal for the East Tonnage has been chartered at the Baltic Exchange to carry conls from South Wales to Sourabaya at 18s. a tón.
BRITISH ADMIRAL'S TACT. QUEEN OF HOLLAND CONFERS
HIGH ORDER.
THE HAGUE, September 10th. Quora Wilhelmina has conferred on Rear-Admiral Hodges, the Grand Cordon
lower grades. on four other British naval of the Order of Drange of Nassau, also
men, who were recently in Holland.
of the war is contained in the reports of eales of big estates all over the country The high cost of living and heavy taxa tion are the main reasons why ancestral properties are being disposed of, and the a more modest scale of comfort with owners are obliged to adapt themselves to
fewer responsibilities
This wook attention is particularly directed to what is happening by the Duke of Portland, who told his tenants at Welbeck Abbey that it was doubtful whether he or his family would be able to continue to reside there. He seemed cer- tain that those who come after him will be unable to do so, owing to the present enormous rate of taxation and the ex- tremely onerous incidence of the death daties.
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The system, however, has not been mito used for either purpose for the reaso that with the multiplied use of electricit for all purposes carth and air are fu one with an elementary knowledge of inducted currents-a term which an electricity will understand. These caus
A lot "of water has run under the bridge since Mr. Chamberlain made famous what we then enlled the Imperial dropped as denoting a military nexus, Conferences. The word Imperial has been and it was disliked by the Dominion Prime Ministers. The bonds between the Mother Country and the great lands over of interests as free-governing people seas are primarily based on a community with the same fellowship of race political ideals. The Conference just closed, with a message expressing devo tion to the Throne, permitted of the interchange of ideas on matters of
Swan Song
SWAN SONG OF DUCÁL SPLENDOUR common statesmanship. The note through The speech might be described as the right of the Dominions to be consulted ont has been the fullest recognition of the of ducal splendour as a result of the crushing burden of taxation on questions of Empire importance and which falls upon every one of us in Eng world policy. That was a right they alteration in the currents used t land, to-day Taxation is putting an end established beyond cavil or question by transmit the handwriting or picture, an
a social order which was an essential the part they played in the war..
produce distortion of farm. If the inter festure of English life. Great estates are being broken up, and the stately interest under discussion was the considerable that "the writing or pictur Perhaps the matter of most general forence of the induction currents is at al
appreciable this distortion becomes homes" of the old landed aristocracy are for freer means of communication bet maintain them. The class of people who vents more frequent consultations is dis being demolished, or allowed to stand tween different parts of the Empire and
quite unlike the original. Th empty, because nobody can afford to this country.
writer The obstacle which pre where, in the course of his optimisti
in the made money out of the war bave neither tance. It is believed that this point was says that the itfluence of earth or atmos Matin is in erro the taste nor the inclination to settle so strongly stressed by the Dominion pheric currents is Jess in the case
comments on M. Belin's invention, h down as country magnates, even assuming Premiere that the improvement of tele- wireless transmission than in that of that they could learn to fill the role ade-graphie communications can no longer morse signals soct over quately, which is a pretty large assump be delayed. tion. A comparatively small establish-bear it said in quarters well qualified and telegraph operator knows that the
graphic cables or wires
ordinary ment suits their purpose better.
Every engineer to speak on the subject that the Domin facts are A discussion has been started as to the ions have not displayed the interest in the chief obstacles to rapid and contin
exactly the opposite. One best way of preserving some of the fine British foreign policy that might have
Dus wireless si country houses that are vacant in many been expecter, considering what they did duced by so-called "atmospherics" that ess signalling is the effect pro- parts of the country. The feeling is that in the war. The Foreign Office in London it would be a thousand pities if they were would like the Governments overseas thousand miles away,
is stray electric currents, or the disturb The Premier, Mr. Meighen, has received to be destroyed, and the best suggestion have a say in directing policy, but no order day that an RDODcement was Ances caused by thunderstorms perhaps a seems to be that the County Councils
It was only the
EARLIER CABLES.
EFFECT OF VISIT TO HOLLAND.
THE HAGUE, September 18th. amenities here was greatly enhanced by The cordiality of the Anglo-Dutch Rear-Admiral Hodges causing the salute of twenty-one guns being fired from the warship Coventry on leaving the Ymuiden docks, although he was not bound by naval usage to do so.
CANADIAN CABINET.· PREMIER'S RECONSTRUCTION
SCHEME.
OTTAWA, September 13th.
the resignations of all the Ministers as a preliminary to the reconstruction of announced early next week. the Cabinet, details of which will be It is expected that Parliament will be dissolved immediately afterwards,
UPPER SILESIA PROBLEM. BRITISH FORCE OCCUPIES LIPINE.
OPPELN, September 13th. ments for Upper Silesia has arrived. The The first contingent of Italian reinforce British have occupied Lipine, and other places will be occupied shortly.
CRICKET. CHAMPION COUNTY V. HEST.
LONDON, September 15th.
At the Oval, the match between the land teams resulted in a victory for the Champion County and the Rest of Eng. latter by e wickets.
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similar bodies ought to acquire them and are indifferent. This sounds rather car adapt them as hospitals or schools for ious, but it is a fact, nevertheless. higher education. In years to come these splendid mansions will bo of the greatest SENERAL SHOTS AND IRELAND. possible interest as memorials of the great territorial Jamilles.
tele
made that Signor Marconi had, discovered a method of screening out
these inter ferances. That discovery, however, in still only what may be described a Inborntary experiment, and huse. When been brought into commercial use. it is the speed sad certainty of wireless transmission will be much improved, and it will, also, no doubt, be of value to h: Belin's invention.
One of the statesmen who attended the There is Welbeck Abbey, for instance,
Conference and gained great accession to vell worthy of the noble family who own General Smuts. which is an extraordinarily fine place,
his prestige, already considerable, is It was a stroke of it. The 8th Duke of Portland had a genins on the part of the Prime Minister intense dislike of publicity, and was to call upon him to act as a go-between
Without in any way belittling the constructed a wonderful series of apart proach the Sinn Fein revolutionaries or business. The exactly analogous appli determined to shut himself it from the in relation to Irish affairs. He was the French scientist's clever work, a doubt gaze of his fellows. meats underground, including a ball-room with the olive branch in his hand and ance for the transmission of handwriting Accordingly, he one man above all others who could ap and much application in either diplomacy may be expressed as to whether it will
between 200 and 300 feet long, and 51 at the same time completely escape a dreads of guests; a riding school, where to destroy peace proposals in Ireland the wireless adoption of the same prin-
pictures ever ordinary
and he used to take horse exercise, a picture namely, that the British Government, isciples is not likely to be extensively used. gallery, and many other rooms. gother the subterranean passages
Alto not to be trusted. The Boor leader, who The direction in which electricians look Welbeck extend to rather more than 29
was in arms against Britain twenty for important developments is in the Beld miles.
Fears ago and is now the loyal support of wireless telephony.. Here there is the er of the Empire and what it stands for, prospect of immense knows better than that.
extension and utility, and no one can predict what may be achieved in the future. Daily Tele graph.
And
feet high, capable of accommodating hun suggestion which has so often been ased lines has not been largely em telegraphe
SOME EXAMPLES OF HEAVY TAXATION.
де
convene a European conference of twenty- of the Russian Famine has resolved, te CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY of Bedford was writing to the Times, call-in his opinion the terms offered by the four States, including Germany, garia, Poland and the Russian Border States, also the Red Cross, at Brussels on October 8th.
Bul.
LATER. Mr. Lloyd George's telegram to Mr. de Valera says that he (the Premier) informed. Mr. de Valera's emissaries, at
Each country will be represented, by Inverness on September 13th, that the ono delegate with power to vote. No reiteration of Mr. de Valera's claim to further request will be made to the Soviet negotiate with the Government as the re-
for enquiry on the spot. presentative of an
I make a
sovereign impossible. NAPTHA STILL EXPLOSION. brought a letter from Mr. de Valera
re-affirming the MEN'S FATAL LEAP FROM UPPER claim. Mr. saries to warn Mr. de Valera of the very George asked the emis-
STOREY. serious effect of such a clause, and offered to consider the letter as undelivered, in order to allow Mr. de Valera time for Te-consideration.
The
Nevertheless, Mr. de Valera has now published the letter in its original form, Mr. Lloyd George must, accordingly, cancel the arrangements for the confer ence at Inverness for next week, and Consult his colleagues on the course of action netessitated by the new situation. Mr. Lloyd George emphasises the fact that the Government cannot re-consider its position. The Government's accept- ance, as the conference basis, of Mr. de Valera's claim would constitute an all- cial recognition of the severance of Ire- land from the Empire and its existence
an independent republic, and entitle Mr. de Valert to declare, as of right acknowledged by the Government, that, in preference to association to the British Empire, he will pursue a closer associa tion by a treaty with some foreign Power. and answer is possible to such a The great concessions which the Government made to Irish feeling, in order to secure a lasting settlement, says the Premier, deserved response, but, hitherto, every advance more generous has been made by the Government. Binn Fein have not come a single step to meet them, but merely reiterated, in phrases of emphatic challenge, in letter and spirit, their original claim.
(Continued at foot of next column)
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PHILADELPHIA, September 15th. Ten men were killed nad 28 injured in ma explosion of a Naptha still in the Atlantic Refining Company. Several building, and jumped 75 feet to escape were caught in the upper storey of the from the flames. Most of them were kill. burning of and were incinerated. ed on the spot; others fell in a pool of
CUT IN WAGES. NEGOTIATIONS BREAK DOWN IN
."LONDON.
LONDON, September 13th. as regards wage reductions of 4 to 11 Negotiations between masters and men shillings weekly, involving 50,000 work ers, broke down at to-day's meeting of the Joint Industrial Council.
The soap and candle", trades workers withdrew after the refusal of the employ ers" to accept arbitration.
ANOTHER RIOT IN BELFAST.
LONDON, Boptember 15th.
in Belfast this afternoon. Revolvers were The two rival parties came in conflict fired, and two woman were wounded. The military dispersed the rioters.
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guarantee
Recently Mr. Pre who is chair. accept the present offer for the rest of cational value (though I hate the phrase)
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Before General Smuts left here for I suppose it is merely a coincidence, but while the Duke of Portland was com- South Africa this week, I understand plaining of taxation and its effects in that he sent a letter of friendly counsel his speech at Wolbeck Abbey, the Duke to De Valera. He plainly intimated that
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN AGAIN. ing attention to the same subject. He Government to Sinn Fein embody the states that in the case of an agricultural highest possible degree of independence a four months' season of Gilbert and It is good news that London is to have estate in Bedfordshire comprising 18,000 Tacy are more liberal even than the Sullivan opera this Autumn. This will Journal of the Association of Chinese and The following notes are taken from the
acres there was & deficit last year of terms given to the Boer majority after open at the Prince's Theatre on October £2.518 after payment of Income-tax and the settlement negotiated by Mr.. Camp 2nd, and I believe its success may be re American Engineers:-
super-tax There is not the slightest ren: bell-Bannerman. Ulster has Hupeh section of the Canton-Hankow or to regard the experience of the Duke safeguards, and it is for Sinn Fein to performancea are not without their edu Construction has begun on the Hunan- son to doubt the accuracy of the figure, of Dominior Home Rule with adequate garded as assured. To the prezent gener Railway from Chuchow to Hengchow. of Bedford as exceptional.
ration of younger theatro-goers. thes The
length of line is about 80 miles. Tho first division extends from Chuchow men of the Land.
the country. and is himself Lukow.
a large landed proprietor, told the House RIVAL AUTOES.
as demonstrating the sound musical and In connection with this presunt exten of Commons that in 1990 the rental of
dramatic taste that held the public fast, sion of the Canton-Hankow railway, certain estate in Scotland amounted to
While the Times has found a "gilly in other days before we had heard of ninety tons of steel plates bave been re- £42,400. The cost of management and the virtues or evila of "Cocktails" as a body seems to have been able to capture
season" subject in a discussion about revue. It is a fact worth noting that noth cently ordered from the Yangtze Con- maintenance, not including anything for steady drink, and the Daily Telegraph or even passably to imitate the quaint and struction Co. of Hankow at $313.00 per amenities, for gardens, or for personal has started a serial story, the Morning delicate fantasy that porvades Gilbert ton, local currency.
The Hunsuese Eailway Association has £18,293. Thus there remained a taxable has been waged so long between those but once only, it would seem, and the expenditure of the owner, amounted to Post has fallen back on the feud that and Sullivan entertainments. They came petitioned the Government for the admin- net income of £23,207. On this sute the rival literateurs, Mr. Heary Arthur Jones secret of their creation has been lost. istration of the section of the Canton burden of taxes, rates, and other statu menced between: Chuchow and Hongchow, even of er there was left the princely round the latter's Socialist writings, wore counts of the life of. Mr. Burdett Coutts, Hankow Railway which is being con- tery charger reached the total of Exc00 and Mr. H. G. Wells. The earlier MELANCHOLY WITH A MILLION.
stages of the controversy, which centres The newspapers have given long ne waged in the columns of the Evening whose death is reported this week. Ho Standard
Mr. H. A. Jones has always was not a conspicuous success in Parlia been a fighter; and I am old enough to rent, or in anything else for that mat hopes are entertained that a new daily dramatist he wrote a play, entitled. The the husband
of his chiefly as paper representing Independent Liberal silver King, in collaboration with of the famous banking firm, and the ism will be launched in London in the Henry Herman (that weird person with mistress near future, I understand that although Wonderful progresa is revealed in the negotiations were carried to a point some a glass eye and a weakness for playing all of a million or more sterling
passing rich, Mr. Burdett ter 80 and were then held up, the artistically on his feet, and incidentally ment out of the vast fortune ho got with Shanghai us centre of the trade, Dow dead. The proposal has a vo started Wilson Barrett on his successful to melancholy, and he used to mope about
Coutts did not seem poker), which put him financially and
to much enjoy backing financially.
his wife. Ho was a sad man, inclined It would be an excellent thing if the career.
daily appeared.
the corridors of the House of Commons Independent From the columns of ironical advice and in and out of the division lobbiës Liberalisto is by no means well repre gratuitiously tendered by Mr. H. A sented in the Freas either in London or Jones to Mr. H. G. Wells the public found life scarcely bored to death and
Jike great centres of population in the are invited to conclude that the latter
scarcely worth the living Perhaps the fact that he suffered from country. The conduct of Parliamentary is among other things" a silly rantor," insomnis for years had something to do. business and the control of public affairs an excited imbecile," and "an out with it but his was certainly an instance generally would stand to gain if there and-out har" But the popular Socialist where the old saw that money is not Were & strong morning paper capable of and novelist who has described for us everything The China Hain Bus Vermicelli soding in the forefront the fundamental the War of the Worlds" treats Jones, nephew, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, wrote somo could be well applied. His Macaroni Manufacturing Co. was estab from politics, another newspaper would his eminent statistical Fabian brother, the Rakan Wars, and more recently as
principles of sound Liberalism.
Apart leniently in the discussion compared with excellent articles as a correspondent in lished seven years ago in Bhanghai- with be welcomed in journalism. $1,000,000 has now been incressed to tent journalists now out of work than literary Socialista love one another Appeared from the ranks of thosea
Owing to merchant. The original capital of other dereopments there are more compe intriguer, who ought to be killed by some on Gallipoli, in both cases for the Daily a branch in Hongkong by a Cantonese recent newspaper amalgamations and Sidney, Webb rotten little incessant the official correspondant with the Armira $1,500,000, and new promises have been has been the case within the memory
moral anitary authority." How these Telegraph, but he has for some time dis erected in Shanghai.
of the oldest veteran in F7
THE FLOUR INDUSTRY
IN CHINA.
With
The Journal of the Office of the High In- dustrial Commissioner (Chinese) anys: flour industry in China proper.
rapidly- manufacturing- four aro increasing
No. of: Daily Output. Location milli sacks (cach 50 lbs) Shanghai 22
94,000 Wasih
23,000 Hankow Tientsin Changebun
Tsinna... 3
13,000
12,000
14,000 19,000!!*
revenue £407,
RUMOURS ABOUT A NEW DAILY PAPER..........
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