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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 5TH, 1925

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VULCANISED AND CREPE BUBBER HOLES.

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WASHINGTON. AND CHINA. WHY. MR. MacMURRAY WAS APPOINTED..

AN EXPERT NEEDED FOR

MPORTANT POST... -

Niw Youx,, March 9th, In urging the appointment of Mr.

de distributed and retailed to the meres

WORKERS AT TALIEU.. Mr. MacGregor Knox, Propagandist of China at tabout 10'cents, it is impossi- |

OVER FIVE THOUSAND KILLED. of the FM.S. Rubber Propagsada Comble to say what the sales may amount to

The following account of the terrible mittee, proceeded to China in December per, annum. There are many hundreds Jof millions of straw sandals consumed last for the purposes of

(a) Estimating the possibilities of throughout China each year, and if earthquake and fire at Talife and sur- China as a market for raw rubber and these can be replaced by some form runding district, as reported by work- manufactured rubber goods; (h) Invest rubber sandal, a very large consumption of the China Inland Mission in the Jobi V.A. MacMurray to be Minister to Ultra-retail distribution city, has been communicated to the Press. China," writes the New York Times. gating the possibilities of introducing to will result. the millions of China some article or would be necessary, as straw sandals are any he stated that the CL.M. misectary Kellogg wishes to encourage articles manufactured from rubber; (c) obtainable in every city, town and villonaries in the city at the time were Mf the practice of promoting tried men of Inquiring into publicity methods in lage throughout China, and are hawked and Mrs. Hanna and Mr. and Mrs the Diplomatic Service, and to have the United States represented in Chinn by Mr. Hanna writes from. Yunnanfu, on

ond of its greatest experts on Far Eastern China with a view to a future rubber in the streets. The making of these straw Booth and their son."

sandals is a home "industry which pro-

Affairs. Mr. MacMurray, who is at propaganda campaigo.

In brief,! He visited among other places, the ful. vides occupation for many old men and April 2nd:--

You will be glad to get a somewhat present Assistant Secretary of State and women throughout China lowing centres: Shanghai and district: there is a very large market in China for Nanking, Hankow and district; Foo-a cheap rubber sandal,, if such a sanda: detailed account of the disaster that has in charge of the Division of Far Eas chow, Amoy, Swatow, Canton and discan replace the cheap straw articles now overtaken Tali and surrounding districtstern Affairs has sorted iz Sian and was in universal use and an organisation be on Sunday, March 15th, at 3 o'clock, for ɓre years Secretary of the American He also served for trict and Hongkong.

created for extensive distribution. Pro- Mr. Knox returned in March, and prepaganda may safely be left to do the rest. there was a slight jolt of earthquake Legation in Peking.

During Sunday night there were frequent several years" in Japan, and at the pared a comprehensive report on his visit

Vulcanised rubber soles are extensively shakes until about daylight on Monday, Washington Conference was one of the which was presented to the Committee... The report comprises 44 pages, divided worn by the middle and better-off classes 16th, when a rather severe shake ocenrr-technical advisers on matters of Enstern ed. This shake cracked walls and did policy. He is the editor of one of the of China in the principal towns from

most comprehensive volumes of treaties. These soles are into 36 sections and with five appendiers Foochew to Canton..

and agreements concerning China that consisting of 24 illustrations. The report onde at Canton, Foochow and Kowloon, other damage. The damage to one corner

"Few diplomatic posts are of greater under reference was a confidential doen. and are also imported from Singapore. of the Mission House was such that I bad has yet been published

importance at present than that "of ant, and the following notes are insout! In contrast to the popularity of vulcams the woman who slept there move to ed rubber soles in the South, there is a

Minister to China. The chaotic COD- for publication.

decided prejudice against them in Cen- another part of the premises.

"During the day on Monday there conditions in that country are certain to The military and politient situation tral and Northern China, on account of

tinued to be frequent shakes, hut we result in profound changes in world, po-

litica. Not only is the immediaza i throughout many of the provinces of extreme variations of climate

Crepe rubber has been recently in-

ture of China. itself at stake-the pro- China is such that the present cannot be considered au auspicious time for the troduced to China and is likely to be felt confident that the worst was

popular amongst the better-off Tali had no history of severe damage by blem of China's administration is mar launching of any new commercial ven-come

The trading communities are con classes and there is a decided pro-earthquake. We were sitting reading in difficult to solve every day-but the in the sitting room downstairs, even thoughture relations of China. with Russia and

Japan are still to be determined. There, fronted with difficulties which compet bability that crepe rubber sales will re- them to regard the immediate future with place the vulcanised soles now used, 19 anxiety, chief amongst these dificulties us well become popular in the provinces we felt we should retire early on account have been rumours of sew alignments is that of transport by railways and where the vulcanised article is usem of not having slept well the previous during the last three years. It is un night, when at about 8.20 p.m. a terrific, derstood that the astute Bolshevist emis canais. The desultory state of civil war-ployed.

I blew out the candles ary, M. Karathan, has acquired andme shock occurred.

influence over some of the North China. fare which has existed during the past year in China has had many evil results. An increased demand for tyres of all and we both rushed for the door, and politicians. Furthermore,. Chinese hosti The outstanding one being the complete descriptions is contingent upon

China is probably more getting into the centre of the courtyard lity towards Japan has materially abat disruption of railway transport. Mer-

development. chants are finding the greatest difficulty backward in the matter of road develop we stood together while the earth" rocked ed, and ones more the possibility arises in distributing imports up-country and

ment than any other country.. There beneath our feet. Walls were crashing or of close-co-operation between the Chin godowas are carrying heavy stocks. Gens, no trunk road system in China: in all sides of us and to add to the terror ese and Japanese," eral native cargo is not coming forward

fact apart from the more important of the night a black cloud rolled over- with any degree of regularity as the Treaty Porta and the country immediate head, blotting out the starlight, and the result of the transport conditions out ly surrounding them, it may be said cries of the populace rose with every shake The people called 'Ao! Ac! Aal lined above, Central authority has al. most crased in China and the "Writ

as they do when calling a dog, the iden being that the dog element can control the earth element...

ture.

of the

TYRES AND INDUSTRIAL RUBBER GOODS.

road

over.

"So complex and difficult is the Chin- ese situation that only an expert is cap-

- MIXED UP WITH THE EAST.

"These matters are of vital interest la Whatever our real the United States... there are no motor roads in China.

Of late years, the value of roads has

er fancied isolation from the political mixed up in. the politics of the East of the Peking Government is disregarded dawned upon the Chinese, and discon-

turmoils of Europe, we are inextricably

throughout most

provinces tent, at the present unsatisfactory state

"The crashing of wails continued all So long as we hold the Philippines, wo Farrigu traders are unable, on this of road development is widely voiced. count, to obtain the helpful support from in Canton, Amoy, Swatow and Foochow, through the night. We could soon Inck cannot be indifferent to political car-

out through into the open from the rents in the. Pacific. So long as we can.. their respective Consular Services which old walis have been pulled down anu

not ignore radical changes in that coun would be forthcoming during normal notor roada constructed with the stone centre of the nurtyard as the walls were tinue our activities in China we can- try. Few Americans. realize that for times, and have no redress for irregu this obtained. 1 consequence, motor all down. Then to add to the terror,, fire larities perpetrated by local dictators. services have been established and the broke out in many quarters of the city. For example, 'likin' is often levied sever number of private cars has increased. It became so threatening that Ehud to years we have had troops and a firet the yard with the of gunboats in China, and that we have al times on the same cargo during the This movement for the construction of leave, my wife in

wers on numerous occasions, in Chinese course of a comparatively short trans

we have larga an example directly affecting the rub main roads is sure to spread throughout woman, who got out safely owing to bavatel, jointly with the other treaty po her industry is the likin of 315 (Mex. China, and although the unsettled mili-ing moved to the other room-ber for-

cary situation has checked developments met soon having collapsed, roof, floor airs. Furthermore,

to make demands on the Government. imposed by the Canton acfbarities on for the present, the future must ses a and all, and would surely have buried, trade interests in China, which are sure

With the her. The walls were all down, so that to

which cannot be ignored. all rubber goods distributed throughout very great development. the sphere of their influence

amount of cheap labour available, very get to the street it was unfer to climb over It is not surprising to find the commer-rapid strides may be made. An authority the stone piles and avoid going under cial community in China distinctly shy recently stated that China required sixty buildings. The fire, was in the second

Few are the Americans who really know in respect of new enterprise, and this thousand miles of railways. If this is block from us and coming our way. Iable of dealing with it satisfactorily. the East. We have had Rockhill and atmosphere of non-confidence and cautions, China certainly will require many returned and made arrangements to get would certainly militate against the suc-thousands of miles of roads to feed these away to the north should the fire reach Willard Straight, each of whom came essful launching of a rubler propaganda railways, China will eventually become our place.

"On going out half an bour Inter the to know the Chinese thoroughly. campaign.

a very large factor in the world's con

But While presenting comprehensive

southward. It was impossible to do much prising ability to inform themselves. scheme of publicity to the F-MS-Rubber suzuption of tyres, but China first must wind had changed and the fire was going Reinsch and Dr. Schurman showed sur-

have more and better roads....

neither waA a specialist in Chines Propaganda Committee, the Propagan-

The Minister to China shoul The demand for industrial rubber on the street as the people were too quickly about Eastern politics.

affairs. dist, in view of present conditions goods in China is limited but will in-panic-stricken even to save their own pro- throughout most of China has been com- pelled emphatically to recommend that crease with industrial development All perty. Wells were buried under walls this scheme be held in abeyance until industrial development has received aand water not available; people huried know China and the Chinese. This is

out our being able to rescue them." The conditions in China are considered more decided check for the present owing to under walls were burned to death with possible only for one who has lived years

the military and political situation. pportune. However, although China

The American manufacturers are well distress was indescribable. Thousands home is passing through a period of stress, represented in China, as are Dunlops, in the city, were killed. Hardly a change, and anatability, distinct signs

not entirely and the rubber manufacturing firms escaped of a brighter future, are

which operate from Singapore. absent; but it is necessary to take a long view. Malay is interested to know What amount of her products China may consume and to what extent it may be reasonably supposed that this con- sumption will increase.

THE PRESENT DEMAND.

or am

It

of rubber, and tubber products, and the present value of rubber imports is little more than £500,000 per slightly more than id, per capita of the population of all Chinese territory. in natural to suppose that there must be a vast unexploited market for rub ber products in China, and this ang position is reasonable, at the same time the consumption of rubler in China is contingent upon factors, which may be

CONCLUSIONS.

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in the East."--Reuter.

Dr.

STOWAWAYS' APPEAL. TWENTY CHINESE IN A WATER TANK.

"Being anxious about the Booths, my wife came with me to the Salt Office on the next street and and stayed on the It has been recommended that, although tennis court with Mrs. Berg and her

Six Chinese. siowaways, part of a the present time is pot considered appor-children, upon whom a wall had fallen, tune for any extensive operations in but who were uninjured, while Mr. Berg group of 20 who were found hidden in a water tank of a vessel which arrived auto China, the F.M.S. Rubber Propaganda and 1 visited the Christians and Mr. Committee maintain and develop con- Booth. We found that Mr. and Mr. Singapore from Swatow, appealed before ..At present China is a small cousuer nections established.in China' as the result Booth and Donald had gotten but safely the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice. over the roof of the house as the stairs Sproule) last week against a sentence of were gone and the walls falling.

twenty-one duys' imprisonment and a re of the Propagandist's visit; that the Committee be kept informed of all

"No haptised Christian in the city was patriation order, made by the Master developments in China likely to affect the

Mr. A. V. I Davies, on behalf of the demand for rubber goods; that certain killed, although many were injured, and Attendants circumscribed publicity be carried ou is members of their families killed. I have connection with crepe rubber soley; that not yet heard from the country Chris appellants, said that the accused pleaded guilty in the Marine Court in the belief "The fire burned out the entire busi- that if they did so they would only be the report presented (which contains tians, in China) be kept as a basis for future ness section of the city and scores of Rued and certainly not repatriated. They details and costs of a publicity scheme operations; and that the Committee rebomes, and on the third day the beat were respectable men, and were employed gard China as a future field for exploita was so intense that one could not pass by firms in Singapore. tion when the military and political along certain streets. On Tuesday, the His Lordship suggested that respect xituations are less disturbed, and when 17th, the dead were being carried out able men would not have been found bid- the prospects for trade and commerce are without coffins, wrapped in white cloth, den in five feet of water in a water tank,

and the charges were said to be $1 for an reached by a man hole. brighter than at present.

adult and 50 cents for a child.

The Deputy Public Prosecutor (Mr. "We held a consultation on Tuesday N. H. P. Whitley) said that the Master morning, and as the Mission property in Attendant did not suggest in his, grounds common with the homes of the people of judgment that the men were undesir was wrecked, chapel, dispensary, school abies, but there were regulations for and bouses, it was decided that Mrs. the purpose of keeping some check on the Hanna and I should leave at once for number of people arriving in the Colony Yunnanfu. Mrs. Berg and her two chil- and it was necessary to enforce them. dren accompanied us. We were shocked Mr.. Davies made an application to by the condition of the villages and the produce fresh evidence, and His Lord

hearing for this to be done.

somewhat low in developing.

POSSIBLE CHANNELS FOR INCREASE.

"Rubber footwear for China and India is a suggestion that has been much before the public of Malaya since the inception of the F.M.S. Rubber Propaganda Com- mittee. When considering the question of rubber footwear for the Chinese masses, it is only too easy to count heads rather than to examine the net purchasing power

of the masses.

CINEMA NOTES.

QUZEN'S THEATRE.

There are many more interesting de tails of the Pilgrims adventures in the From 73 to 80 per cent of the popula New World than is written in the usual tion of China are directly or indirectly history, Even those 300,000 or more who dependent upon agriculture for kidship with the

EDGAR ALLEN & Co., Ltd., vendo unit, the recessities sonnel will be surprised by the Amount road was lined with dead animals, horses, ship, granted this, and adjourned the

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about three times as many on the plain.

cows and buffalo...

"Hoa Kuan was shaken; but yery

light of life the struggle is bitter. The scof information revealed by The Court-

Charles Ray'sly, being in a corner of the mountain. cumulated wealth amongst the labouring ship of Myles Standish, millions is small, and spending power production which has its local showing range; Chaocheo was down, even the

pagodas and city gates. Hongai was the NOT ONE WHOLE BUILDING LEFT. per capita lower than in other countries at the Queen's Theatre The Chinese labourer is more liberally How many know, for instance, that same, and Mitu was reported destroyed. Mr. G. H. Booth also writes on March

crew of actual pirates brought the Fi-There is a new lake on the Mitu plain 28th, as follows:- endowed with intelligence than wil wordly goods. Extreme necessity, has grims to American shores? Or that Capt since the shock. We slept in the fields. The earthquake affected the whole made him a keen domestic economist: Thomas Jones, commander of the loop for the first few nights, until, we were plain. In Tallio not one whole build. and although it would not be difficult to had twice been imprisoned in England out of the danger zone. Mr. and Mrsing is left, and the large majority have convince him that rubber had superior for piracy and had been liberated Booth are living in a shack made with not a single sound wall remaining. There qualities in comparison with the materi-through the influence of persons with als now and in the making of big pre- political power and high social stand partitions and doors from the Mission were 1,300 people killed in the city, and "With regard to the property, little can As a foreign community, we bear grateful sent type of footwear (many millions ing, whose business fortunes were doubt House, and are carrying on. of Chinese ge barefooted), necessity will less closely connected with his

The popular impression is that the be done until after the rainy season and testimony to God's keeping of each of materials and labour become available. ns, each in some peculiar way being force him to be influenced by the factor of cost, and price will be considered first, Pilgrims brought their ship across the Prices will be very high. It is difficult preserved from, bodily injury, which came Atlantic as their own enterprise, whereas to estimate the damage. Framework

to so many, The Christinna also vo last and always,

If a market is to be secured amangat they were merely passengers on a ship that is standing is twisted and out of the been specially kept, but some have lost the millions of China for a cheap rubber whose company comprised three distinct sandal, the sandal must possess all the and bestilo ups These element there. On Tuesday morning I saw posts everything. We hope to help such as thes qualities of the present universally-used research department of the Bay organisa- being twisted in mposite directions dur Lord enables us Our Mission property straw sandal; be distributed as widely tion has discovered; supply what is said in a shake. At least $20,000 will he has all been destroved. Walls that did once because of their dangerous "condi and be as easily obtainable, and must to be a great amount of dramatic mate needed, and it will take several years not fall have had to be pulled down t

tion." (Continued at foot of next Column.) coat about the same price. This castrial as well as a certain amount of to restare the property." would have to be to the consumer Tot hambrous incident.

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