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SİLK PROSPECTS IN KIANGSU

FAIR CROP BUT DECREASED PRODUCTION

HOW THE TRADE IS DWINDLING

In spite of a successful crop, the output of Kiangsu cocoons this year is somewhat limited, fariners having been compelled to curtail production by the slump in the silk industry. It is im- possible to say to what extent this has been done, but the acreage of mulberry plantations shows that during the past few years there has been a steady decrease. Owing to repeated failure of crops and the bad market for cocoone und raw silk, Kiangsu farmers no longer regard sericulture as a profitable occupa- tion, and mulberry-trees have heen uprooted and the land has been turned into paddy fields or aised for other crops. ·,

now

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1933.

THE COLONY'S

FINANCES

Revenues for 1933 Suffers by Comparison

"

RAINFALL SINCE FRIDAY

Total of 6.75 Inches

་

During the past three days the rainfall has totalled 6.75 inches,

BIG DROP IN KUTIES AND bringing the total for the year to

IN LICENSES

over

This year the crop is highly suc cessful in regard to quality, but

The financial statement of revenue the output is believed to be less and expenditure of the Colony for than normal owing to restricted the first quarter of 1933-to the end of March reveals heavy decreases production and Wusih filatures under several beads of revenue com are collecting cocoons from neigh-pared with the corresponding period bouring districts to take up the of last year. anticipated shortage. The num ber of drying plants operated by buyers in Wusih greatly exceeds that of any other district in Kiangsu or Chekiang. In 2 normal year about 300 ouch plants are at work during the scason, but in 1931 less than 100 were open, and this year 219 plants were ready to start opera- tions at the end of May.

The excess of tasets $14,129,208,07 and by the end of liabilities on February 28 wae March, the figure had risen to $14,137,173.12.

37.58 inches, against an average of 39,98 inches,

This amount, during the week- end, as measured at the Royal Observatory, taking each day from

p.m., has been as follows.

Friday .........

3.36 inches. Saturday 2,30 " Sunday

1.09 ¥)

6.75

Total.

HOW TO COMPETE WITH JAPAN

The total revenue up to the end of March this year is given at $7,620,903.90

with compared 0,053,959.17 for the same period last year. The drop over a million dollars is shown in a table from Adopt Eastern Standards which the following is extracted.

Under the heading of "Duties" the revenue collected in $1,3036,970,70 this year while for the first three months last year the figure was 82,130,700.03, representing a drop of almost seven lakhs. Port and Har- bour dues are about the same as in the equivalent period in 1932, this year's figures being $208,510.00 as compared with last $100,307.28.‚'

year's

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BRITISH PAPER'S

CANDOUR

FLYING TRAGEDY

AT CANTON

Captain F. M. Deeds Crashes

ENGINE TROUBLE CAUSES FLIER'S DEATH

(From Our Special Correspondent)

Canton, July 2. Captain Ed. F. M. Deeda of the Canton Air Force was killed yes. terday morning while doing stunt flying on a Curtiss Hawks pursuit plane over the Shau Kau aero-

drome,

He was testing the new machine which was recently imported from the United States and performed some norial feats which were wit nessed by his brother officers below. Then he encountered engine trouble, and the 'plane dived from 200 feet.

Captain Deeds, who is an Ameri- ean from Kangas City, Missouri, died soon after the mishap, despite prompt treatment by Major Yan T. Tsang surgeon to the Air Force.

Much sympathy will go to Mrs. Deeds who arrived here only twò days ago from the United States. Captain Deeds was.

a quiet but energetic officer and had been con- nected with the Canton air force since March this year. Finding his work here to his liking, he sent for his wife and intended to remain in Canton indéfinitely,

Four days after the opening of the market, prices soared to 850 In Wusih, for instance, the for cocoons of the highest grade. It is computed that at this price acreage of mulberry plantations

The Morning Post" publishes has decreased from

the cost of producing a bate of 261,000

an article from its Yokahana cor- mow in 1930 to 34,000 raw silk will be at least Tis. 900,

respondent which declares that the in 1932. Previous to far above the current market

"only possible way to meet Japan ese" competition successfully is the silk slump, the normal yearly price. Fearing that high costs

for the standard of living in output of cocoons in Kiangan was without a corresponding improve- Läcences and Internal Revenue Western countries to come down to estimated at 545,000 piculs, as ment of the market abroad may against 1,140,000 picuts in Che cause further losses to the silk of 1933 and 1933 being $3,993,379.63 Japan's co-operative system of competition." Against kiany. This year's crop, though filatures, the Cocoon Merchants' and 84,509,575.42.

national industry" says the arti- more satisfactory than the pre- Association at Wusih has asked The Fees of Court, etc., und the cle, no degree of complaining and vious two or three years, is be for official intervention. A special Post Office do not suffer by com- no height of tariff barrier has any lieved to be much below this official has accordingly been apparison with 1832 while the Revenue offrit." figure, but the demand by silk pointed to visit the collecting year by the Kowloon-Canton Rail- derived over the first quarter_this

"The West will gain nothing." filatures is keen. With 113 centers and inspect the books of way is some $80,000 better than the the article goes on, by proclaim filatures in Shanghai and two or agencies and forbid collectors to same period last year. The item of ing the Japanese way as proof of thres score more in other cities offer exorbitantly high prices. Interest and of Miscellaneous" Re-a inferior civilisation and slave of Kiangsu and Chekiang, the Official action has had little effect, ceipts also show alight increases. quantity of cocoons consumed, however, and farmers simply re- according to a very conservative fuse to sell below cost of produc-

tion.

of five lakhs, the respective figures Japanese not otherwise specified show, a drop a level sufficient to neutralise Thirty years old, the deceased

SUNNING RAILWAY .

COMPANY

labour. The attitude that blames Japan for Western inability to compete with Japan in the same spheres is regarded by the Japan. ese na most unfair and unreason- able.

local aviation school. officer was also an instructor in the

WAR ON DRUG

PLANTS

SHANGHAI POLICE SEIZE MILLIONS OF RED PILLS

SHANGHAI, June 27. Another large plant for the manu facture of red pills was discover- "The secret of Japan's suped in the Settlement on Sunday REDUCED PROFITS LEAD TO em countries in the markets of the Road and seized a large quantity eriority in competition with West when police went to 8 Wuting

RETRENCHMENT.

estimate, is at least half a milliop piculs of dried cocoons annually. At Changchow the crop is not The demand is particularly brisk so good as in neighbouring dis- this season because. (with finan-tricts. Forty-five drying plants cial aid from the Government in are operating, and the price of the form of an export bonus) fresh cocoons ranges from 830 Shanghai merchants are gradual- for the indigenous to $45 for the ly clearing, their old stock of raw

"improved variety. At Kin- silk and dried cocoons which will tun certain places have been eventually compel filatures to be designated by the authorities the income of the Sunning inore active during the next few as a Model Sericultural District, months. This is recognized by where sükworms of the "im- buying agents in the Kiangsu proved". breed and up-to-date districts, who have offered prices methods of breeding are practised far above the level puggested by by the farmers. The crop is the Commission Controlling the highly successful and the output Silk Industry.

believed to be not far below In and around. Soochow the normal. The cocoons are large

Owing to the completion of new roads in many districts of Kwang

The monthly income is just Railway Company has decreased.

enough to pay the wages of the staff, and if these conditions con- tinne, the Company will soon be bankrupt.

In order to save the situation, the Directors of the Company have de cided to reduce the number and the wages of the staff.

world is that, while the West bas of ready-made pills, morphine, given Japan the best means of cocaine, and machines for the mat manufacturing first-class goods and ing of the pills. Three persons has failed to learn from Japan how three more were taken into custody building the best ships, the West were arrested in the house and to avoid extravagance and luxury soon after. and to live at a level that makes of the world. competition possible with the rest

A sequel was heard in the First Special District Court yesterday when four of the arrested persons were arraigned before Judge Wu, the two other prisoners being con-

fined to hospital

The Court was told that informa

It is this simplicity of life and general existence that the West must learn, if it is to meet the situation. Such a appear retrograde in Western eyes, tion was received recently that

prospect inay indeed like throwing civilisation opium substitutes were made at 8 back a hundred years; but this Wating Road and removed to 32 need not necessarily prove true, Wuting Road, the residence of the had the advantage of Chris day evening. A search warrant tinn eivilisation for centuries; they executed on Sunday by officers of

was then applied for which ought, indeed, to be for capable than such a poor nation as Sgt. Warman.

Pootoo Road Station under. Det.- Japan of facing any sacrifice neces sary to regain supremacy in the world of industry and trade..

crop is highly satisfactory, and sized and thick-walled, and much Mr. Chan Lee Chuen, the Directors especially for & people who have owner of the plant, every Satur

last year.

at Wakiang is much better than sought after by merchants, most The prices offered of whom are agents of the silk range from 828 Ta picul for filatures at Wusih. About a cocoons of the indigenous variety dozen collectors are operating in to over 840 for the improved. Kintan City..

H

It is reported that the Chairman, Messrs. Tam Wei Ting, Wong Fung Chow and the General Manager Mr. Chan Yiu Ping are convening meeting to discuss this matter.

JAPAN'S MILITARY

EXPENDITURE

TO

but fariners are reluctant to sell.

In view of the prevailing silk In Soochow suburban districts slump the Government has done. the silkworms are mostly of the much to mitigate the hardships of improved" variety, and the cocoon and silk merchants. The crop highly successful. Very at Nanking-Shanghai Railway has Y.0,000,000 IN ADDITION tractive prices are

offered in reduced the freight on cocoons THE ORDINARY ESTIMATES Soochow city,

** improved from producing districte to cocoons being quoted as high as Shanghai to the following rates: 850 a picul and the indigenous From Soochow to Shanghai, 28.1 Tokyo. The main new items of variety at 830..

cents per bale of 40 catties of War Office expenditure on which dried cocoons; from Wusih, 32.9 negotiations with the Finance De partment will be opened shortly; cents, from Changchow; 37.2 are given as follows: cents, from Chinkiang, 44.8 centa 1-Arms and other

munitions re plenishment......

military educa tion

shan.

The Yangisze

The

more

WAS

When officers entered 8 Wuting Road, the Court was told, they found a man and an aged woman "If the West is ultimately de- in a room. Having placed these fented by the East it will not be under arrest, the officers went up. by armies and navies, but by stairs, where the plant was situat labour, a labour that is contented, and found three men were with life's necessities, and consi- engaged in making red pilla in a ders any wage better than none." room.

STIMULUS TÓ WORLD TRADE

ADVERTISING EXHIBITION

Upon seeing the police officers, the three men shut the door, and refused admittance to the officers. After forcing open the door, the officers found the thres, men had ascaped over adjacent roofs, but seized a large quantity of pills and machines. A, search made at 32 Wuting Road resulted in more ar rests and seizure of more pills, but the arrested persons all denied, be- ing owners of the plant.

A remand was ordered by the Court

The Yangtsze Delta is more of and from Nanking, 51.5 cents.. a cotton-belt than a silk-produc- Similar reductions have been-Supp.) e montary ing zone, because the alluvial soil made by the Shanghai-Hang- suits cotton-plants better than chow- Ningpo Railway. mulberry trees, yet quantities of licence for drying plants has been 3-Improvement of

Y.6,240,000

London.-Sir William Crawford, cocoons are also produced in such reduced to 81 per oven, and the

speaking at a lunchtop of the Ame the system Y.18,000,000 rican Chamber of Commerce in districts as Changshu and Kung business-tax on cocoon merchants Manchurian affair...Y.150,000,000 London gave details of the Adver Minister, the President of the At the latter place, this is fixed at a very low rate. The The military authorities are credit which, will open at Olympia on Brace, Mr. Bobert Brand, and, it These items exceed V.400,000,000tising and Marketing Exhibition Board of Trade, Mr. Stanley year's crop was damaged by un-Government is also making ared with the firm determination to July 17, favourable weather, and the out-tangements with the Chins Mer-secure the approval of the Finance

was hoped Mr. Herriot put was also small because Kun chants Steamship Company for Department for the above-mention- shan, is not a silk-producing dis reductions in freight for cocopus, ed estimate in its entirety, to

which they attach special import trict, and moreover, farmers have raw silk, and silk goods. been so discouraged during recent

ance. They are persuaded of the absolute "necessity of this parti. cular expenditure, in view both of the important international situs tion and of maintaining industrial

years that they greatly curtailed

production this year. At Chang

shu the crop is better though JAPAN'S NATIONAL' SPIRIT

here again the output is very

limited owing to farmers having no. capital to operate on a large scale. The prices offered for cocoone range from $30 for the indigenous variety to over 840 for the improved,*

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but many farmers refuse to sell, declaring that these figures are below the cost of production.

The Wash

Crop

CAMPAIGN

ÉDUCATION DEPARTMENT

TO LEAD 'NEW ORUSADE

A new crusade for the revival, of' planned by the Social Bureau of the national Japanese spirit ië being

the Education Department, sup ported by the Army Navy and Foreign Others

capacity at home.

The outcome of the impending negotiations between the authori ties of the War Office and the Finance Department is watched in many quarters with much interest.

CATHOLICS MUST KEEP OUT OF POLITICS

were.

He described it as one of the Major J. J Astor, M.P., said, greatest advertising experiments that advertising - interests that have ever been made," and making a bold attempt to help to suid that 90 per cent, of the avail-wards trade revival by organising able space had already been taken the exhibition.

Among the official exhibitors Times are bad," he added, "but would be:

it is in just such times as, these that Ministry of Education "Nation a bid for confidence can be of the greatest value. It is surely in al mark."

times of slump that initiative is Post Office-New methods of con- likely to achieve most, and that tact.

Ministry of Agricultura. Department of Overseas Trade. Australia. Canada, New Zealand, South Africa.

wise preparation is likely to pro duce the greatest ultimate retur Much can be done by good and skilful advertising."

Mr. L L. Tweedy, who presid ed, said that newspaper advertising There would be a "Hall of Seas the best medium through, which cess," showing how business houses

had been built up by advertising. People were reached. and a Shop of 1950 to show how goods would be displayed, packed.

and delivered, with new methods On the instructions of the city- of Kandling casha Kuomintang head quarters

HERLIN, July 1. THE offices of all Catholic socle

the The three chief aims are-ar ties and clubs in Prussin which he exhibition Sir William

Sir William conureau of public safety-will-ban Wasih is the chief cocoon pro and of the worship of foreign coun-are regarded by the police as tinged would be neither Bay the sale of superstitious vocabulary ducing district of Kiangan, and trien, worakip of the Sun Goddess polifical have been, closed, and all Benar nor Bell British it sheets offered in street salt. Dur in former years the output wig at shook, government offices and documenta seized in pursuance i would be international in its scope been selling these sheets 27/5/gul)-1 Ing the phat ten days hawkers invoi aboard Japanese vestely; more the Hifler Government's policy to Japanese glasies in, the schools. -

keep, the Church aloof from poli Teathers throughout

Charitable are to be enlisted in this

tiods are not, afected. –Better.

consumed partly by approximately two scores of local, flatures and exported to Shanghai.

organisa-

trade easier. The speakers at the dium et communication with the and it would make international ble people who use them sme exhibition would include the Prime “spirita in the Great Beyond.

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