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writing in the Secretary of the Chinese Customs, begins THE DIRECTORY

In his report on the Trade of China in 1921, al. J. M. argusson, Statisti-re Fork Excaing Post, says Leur selectary of the Maritime Customs, mors the tuilosing,reference to the trade

** Ma. Jongy !**

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his annual report on the Tende of Okina

in 1931 with the following general obser- vations ----

of the Southern Coast ports and the West I the predictions of those who follow Kiter ports:-

the dizzy" orbits of society's higber

The tea

clamation may very well take the place

S

More than three years have passed

Ne auteward events of importance occurred during the year at the thre#theres are correct, this cryptic, exsince the signing of the Armistice put na of bid spaces? ** in drawing rooms end to the Great War, and as tiine) along Park and Fifth avenues this advances the general economic conditions| spring.

From Palm Beach and Hot Springs improvement. In the preceding report) throughout the world show little sign of] peoples are retuming full of enthusinam for the new game of MaJongg. It is on the Trade of China, which covered the a game 2.000 years oh, played for cew-year 1990, that year was described as turies by Chinese philosophers in summer one of readjustment resulting from the gardens by the sale of runting waters, teadita in by the A period of It is an aristoematic game, very beauti rapidly rising prices, it wasbeckt, was ful, indeed, and well adapteil to the succeeded by one of recession, which con- leisured and philosophical,

tinued to such an extent that, at the

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Pukien ports, Sunture, Foochow and from The province was free Amoy.

and. political disturbances,

although brigandage was rife in aomo places in the interior, it did not greatly interfere with the regular course of trade. Benson opened about the middle of April, but, with indifferent demand, prices N001 Conditions, however, improved siderabis, tards the third quarter of the year, prices stiffened perceptibly, and in some cases, it is reported, the supply could not meet the large demand from abroad. 1t i is pleasure to be able to

So far Ma Jongg has only invaded one end of the year, it had culminated in a report that the bulk of the season's sup-New York store cue that caters to the serious trade slump involving most plies were disposed of at very, remunera moct select, trade, but already orders for branches of trade and industry through tive prices, leaving only small stocks on Ms Jongg sets have come in so fast that out the world. There was no interrup band at the end of the year. Timber con-

the proprietors of the store are planning tion in this downward movement at the คุณ tinues to be exported froin Foochow in

the manufacture of less expensive set beginning of 1921, and the expectation increasing quantities. Amoy reports an

many that the New Year would usher exceptionally briss import trade wing The one they have now retails for $250. of

In a period of recovery, was not realised. to the local market being well supplied

Indred wholesale prices persisted in with money as the result of remittances

Members of the English Chab in Hong their decline during the greater, part of the ent homeward by Chinese enante kong claim the credit of having wrested year, and it is interesting to record that while the cultivation of poppy in the

the lust

from China her exclusive possession of in May, 1991, the first signs of an upward few years is zuid to have enriched the

this fascinating game. They play a tendency in the price levels were fotice

THE DIRECTORY oovers the notable even, people, thus increasing their purchasing Jongg for high stakes there, and, as alable in Japan, where a year earlier the port and sities of the Far East, from Natner Power Striking advances are reported in

inatter of fact, the game, if played first break in prices, which was soon to reside.

landa India to Siberia, in which Europaans the importation of foreign piece goods. notably English shirtings, jeans, and correctly and for stukes, is only for those become univerzal, hud occurred. India

who en afford to lose considerable sms likewise moved to a slightly higher level in each case as it can be made, but each Colony, Not only is the Directory as full and complet Teloths; aniline dyes and foreign flour likewise did very well Indian yarn is

of an evening. The writer of this has at about the same time, but in the Port or Settlement is prefaced by's DESCRIP practically out. of demand, being supa powerful imagination for the simple United States, England, France, and in TTON, carefully revised each year, most of planted by the products of the Shanghai truth is that the gate is not played at must Continental countries the contrac-which will sorve as accurate GUIDE FOR mills. Amongst exports, brown sugar the Hongkong Chas. We can confidently tinn in prices generally proceeded un Toomas, giving every dalail in connection with and sugar candy should be mentioned. my that the game of Me Jongy or Muninted, although at a less rapid rate the places, their History, Topography, etc.

Swatow reports the importation of Chrub has never been played within the than before. Further deflation wax re abundant supplies of rice from Bangkok walls of the Hongkong Club-ED. cured during May and June. In Julying of a hundred interesting articles, poet.

The Information in these Descriptions, cousin and Hongkong owing to the diminished H.D. Not that stakes are essential finally the Statist index-umber re quantities proourable from Wuhu. The to its enjoyment. One woman has locked gistered an increase in England of three facts concisely set out, and containing gradual revival of the amiline dyr inusi herself in her house just off the Avenue, points over the June level, while the port, would alont suffice to All a large volume.

statistics of the TRADE of each Country an neas is also noticeable. Chinese matches spending long afternoons teaching Marise in France was about 2 per cent. from Shanghai and Canton jumped from Junge to her children,

Aigist witnessed conflicting tendencies, 351,000 to 776.000 gross, while the Japanese variety showed a small loss at 48,000 gross,

ala Jongg is a combination of domi some commodities advancing in price, chess, Oriental allegory, and others declining: but this was evidently It is interesting to record the watinned moder

modera warfare. The Ma Jage set the turning of the tide, since, from this prosperity of the native weaving. try at Tenghai, already referred to in cuist of 16 peers, fashioned some-time up to the end of the rear, whole- last year's report, the output of which this fines, made of ivory and sale prices vacillated more or less about These pieces are the same levels, with a distinct, upward improved in quality and finds mounted in bamboo. arely market in the Straits Settlements in three suits, which are called "char tendency in some countries, although re They ductions continued to be reported in and Bangkok

The business in drawn acter," "baraboo," angi "dot. work and Trish crochet and filet face is

run from one to nine, and there are pos-Englah throughout the 1 months. At ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS ir growing in importance every year, the sibilities of four of a kind. There are the close of the year, while many held the Far East contains the names of over deman bring such that practically the also four pieces called North East that we were not yet out of the wood

20,000 FOREIGNERS, whole female population in the district South and West Wind, and three large and that worse was yet to come, signs round Swatow is engaged in these indus-pieces... the red "green and white were not wanting to support the view trie

dragons. East Wind" is banker. Each that the worst of the depression, had been arranged, with the Initials as well as the Sur player draws his pieces from the centre passed. The outlook in the United names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that and sets them up in frous of him in the States and the leading Continental coun;

any rame can be found instantly, shape of a miniaturo Chinese wall, East tries also gradually became more hopeful Wind then shakes dice to see whose wall thun, it had been since the depression shall be broken down and the owner of had set up.

The trade of Canton, white bampered by internal disorders, has nevertheless Acarished. A very fair business in silk WAY done. A steady demand from America, coupled with a slight impror ment at Lyons, caused prices to advance, and the year

Batisfactory suits, The Custom Tetris record an epi© LLC XZ{}}

export of white raw uk, stean

of 48.750 picals. as compared with 32,164 pirala in 1920. Metals exhibit very sub- stantial admoces, while the importation of foreign coal increased by 9,000 tons and that of kerosene of by. 5.000.000 gal lons; foreign piece goctis also did well. Wolfram ure (tungstent) and cassia fell of considerably. due to lack of support from the home markets; but fans, matches, and leaf tobacco were able to register pro Internecine warfare greatly an- gress. pered trade in the Two Kwang provinces. A notable event was the election on the 7th April of Dr. Sun as President of China by a specially convened Parlia mnt. He did not, however, ngaune office until the 5th May, which was observed as a general holiday.

the attacked wall shakes the dice to find. It is, manifest that economic disturb. out from which part of his wall a tile is unces, as described above, must have

to be taken.

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The Book is printed from Nay Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity is every arrangement greatly facilitates reference.

Baddes the usual Alphabetical List of Finns the Directory give the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres

n

The

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THE MAPS AND PLANS

of the principal parts of the Far East have bet engraved by one of the most eminent Firme in brought up to date Great Britain, and are annually corrected and-

The CHRONICLE covers the notable events. together with the Tests of all the most import ozí Treaties concluded with the countries of-

It is published at the Offer of the Hoxe KONO DAILY PRESS.".

The Directories and Descriptions are of je

CHINA.

Scochow Chinkiang Nanking

Peking

Tientsin Teitailio Chinwangtao. Waht

Kew kiang Hankow Tochow

Canton Whampca. Kowloos

profound bearing on all lines of husipers BRIDGE ENVLET ENTHUSIASTICO

activity and must of pecessity seriously The point of the game is to prevent of the countries concerned: there is no affect the population, in all walks of life, East Wied from blowing down one's need to enlarge up this point. But, tarn Asis the ons Customs Tarifle wall. Everything about it is done back above all, the fall in commodity prices Scales of Commissions, Constar and Court

Trade Regulations, Chamber of Cora.merc ward, from the Western standpoint. The was disastrous for intentional cole For Hongkong. Stamps butik sigand deal rans

counter-clockwise, and the relations, with which we are chiefly con- Codes,

Tables of Money, counting of the characters is from right cerned, and which suffered severely Weights and Measures and other Lom- to left. In place of chips, Ma. Jongg through the ensuing worldwide business mermal Information. players use long, dotted sticks, and, zu depression. In support of this statement the course of sa evening, so rumour it should be borne in mind that deßation Around the China Sea has it, as much as did not proceed at the same rate in the $22,000 has changed hands. „

different countries. The uneven reduc A New Yorker, who writes a long list. tion in price levels thus created resulted of clubs after his name in the Social in a change is the international price Register and who is known as an in relationship, rnich in turn disorganised veterate bridge player, enme back from the foreign changes. This, again, re- Hot Springs the other day with the suited "in" uncertainty and hesitation in The Kongincon and Lappa Customs Jongg complex. "It is the prettiest the foreign markets, which emphasised both report a satisfactory year, while

Taku It has the depression and used trade to s game 1 know of be said. trade

conditions generally at West taken the place of bridge in my affee une a more feculative character. It is River ports of Samshui, Wehow, and Nanning were much affected by the un-

tions. The excitement of watching your perhaps consoling, when reflecting upon settled political and military conditions. wall crutabled by the onslaught of the present bad times, to be reminded of An appreciable quantity of manganese Fast Winei provides a captivating thrill the fact that simuliar periods of reaction "or ore was exported from

I am sure that Ma Jongg will entch hold have followed every great Wachow

here and that every country elab will economic upheaval in history. After the The lifeless condition of the Yunnan haverits Ma Jongg experts by the time French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, tin market-tin being the staple export

the American Civil War, and also after summer comes," from Mangtag is due to lack of demand

the Franco-German, War, there was the Maybe he is right. It is fact that same stagnation in trade and disorgani and prices ruling and also to the one experienced bridge teacher is situation of foreign exchanges, the same competition of Straits tin in home ting up nights studying the rules of a alarming effect on currency, and issue of markets Export of this commodity from Jongg, and her rooms Hengtsz. therefore, cont

continues to contract. Billed with talk of dragons, winds,"

notes which depreciated in value through being, issued. excessive quantity. may be recalled, for instance, that the avigante daring the French Revolution became so depreciated that 600 francs worth of them were required to pay for pound of butter, as chronicled by Mill in his Principles."

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and it is reported that smelting at the and the sound of the crumbling of little Kokia mines, in Yunnan province, is only being done at a fraction of its normal walls. capacity. Untanned gont skinshowed.

recovery, "the export figures being

$14,999

Of

SIR J. D. REES' DEATH."

picces, as against 313,950 pieces in. , but the amount is

far short recorded in 1918. The value of im parts from Burma as recorded by the Tengysch Customs declined owing to lower prices ruling for cotton yarn and raw cotton; exports, on the other hand, registered an appreciable advance, which is chiefly accunted for by an enlarged exportation of Szechwan raw silks

THE ARABLE LAND OF CHINA According to the Sin Wen Pao, the arable land of China is as follows:-

Chihli

82.841,064 mów. Shaatung

£6,479,546 Bhansi

53,268,401 17 Honan

78,620,514 84,751,717

+

Kiangsu

11

Anhwei

74,078,023

48,918,797

Fukien

19,802,024

TEA CLOTHS, TRAY CLOTHS,

DUCHESS SETS, DOYLEYS, ETC.

Chekiang

40,412,026,

Hupeh

150,443,944

gian

31,301.273

Копли

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Szechwan

Kwangtung Kwangai Yinnsa Kweichow

20.842.012 23,630,421 46,381,000 24,393,900

8,380.179 19,317,700 3,995,400

Total 737,012,338 $104.

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**PROOF IN THE EATING,"

MAGISTRATE HAS A SNACK ON

THE BENCH,"

The inquest on the body of Sir J..D. Rees did not bring to light any evidence. as to how he fell out of van train.. Verdict of accidental death was return ed. Lady Rees, who was deeply affected, deposed that the health of her husband had been extraordinarily good. He was full of energy and had suffered from ne nervous break down. On Thursday they amed together, after which Sir John

Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Magistracy, departed for Glasgow by the night mail yesterday, was handed tray of train, Buying that he would "return on bananas from which he selected one and Saturday evening.

after eating bull of it pronounced it to The porter deposed that he found Sir be quite good.. On this test he decided John Hees a hundred yards beyond to convict a man who was charged with Chesterfield platform in the six-foot way, hawking bananas without licence. about balf past three in the morning; so The mas' excuse was that he had just a friend a bunch of he had been on the line for half an received from hour.

bananas which were considered to be Sir J. Hees was in a sitting position, in the act of taking them home in order unfit for human consumption. He was with his body bent forward. •He told witness that he was in great pain and would ripen when he was arrested by the to keep them for two days so that they added, "more me away from here." Sir

A.

John had a terrible gash on the top of Police. Mr. Hamilton after sampling one his bead but it was not bleading much of the baoazas, lost faith in the man's He said nothing as to how he came to story and fined him $1.

fall out of the traini

The hospital dactor described the ter

rible injuries inficted on the bend and

shoulder. Sir John Fees was semi-con | D.m. The compartment, after the acel cious and delirious. He said time after dent, was quite in order and there were time Lift me up. I am in great no signs of a struggle having taken place, pain." He died at twelve minutes past The rug was thrown back as if someone There are vast stretches in the interior eight.

lying down had got up. The coroner which could easily be reclaimed. Govern Other witnesses gave evidence to show there was no evidence in support of the suggested that it was possible, though ment investigators variously, estimate that that Sir John Bees, covered by a rug argument, that deceased, after waking up the number of mo now given over was sleeping soundly at full length whhad opened the ontside door in a half to cultivation could be increased in cer tain provinces five, six, and even soven

the attendant checked tickets at 45 dazed condition thinking that he was times.

(Continmed at foot of next column.)

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