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TOBACCO IN CHINA.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MAY 17 1911

The average Britisher or Ameri- can who has inade a study of the toneco market of Eastern Asia

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during the past fivo years cannot). J. W. Noble............ but have been astounded at the rapidity with which the foreign Notherlands Trading Socioty cigaretid has in many places beon Russo Asiatic Bank.......... universally neceptol. In China Whitenway Laidlaw & Co... this is particularly the ease. Cru-W. S. Brown............ sados against smoking m China J. Hoopor............ would imediately fizzle ont, for C. H. W. Kow...... the Chinaman is essentially. T. W. Robortson..... smokor. From earliest yours the P, R. Wolf..... child smokes the antiquated "bub- E. 8. Ford.. ble" pipe, and Intor takes to. Hyde....... stronger weeds; little girls not yet R. Packham... in their teens also "babble," wo-E. H. Neave... mon smoke, and throughout China | A. FI.-1[eron.!. the non-smoking mortal is a great K. Unsworth. exception; so that it may at once S. R. Ismail... be perceived that a great tobacco-S. Juman....... selling field is presented such as S. II. Seplror... is eclijed nowhere in the world.|O. S. Mooney. The effect of a successful cornor-C. F. Li........... ing of the tobacco market is also Leung Kain Lan..... at once apparent,

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CHINESE CIVILIZATION.

AN INTERESTING ARTICLE, A Chinese correspondent writes a splended article, which has found print in the "Straits Times" of May 10th-an article which is a vindication of the "Great Oriental People." He says:

"It has boon wisely and cor rectly stated that to tell the truth, rightly understood, is not to state

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citizen is not any happier or more contented than the average Chis noso. A civilization which has led China to wade through the

HE undersigned have been favored: crisis under which all her contem-with instrup.lous 40 sel for mo poraries, who were perhaps even count and risk of the vous ened by richer and better equipped mnte- rially, have fallen and passed

way cortainly, has something private sal which is superior to gold and at other materialistic standards.

It is truq that our civilization | .⠀ las defects and imperfections,

PUBLIC AUCTION (Unlos prviùusly illsposed of by

their Offices, No. 7 Qusi Du Yong King Pang, French, Concorsion,

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the true facts, but to convoy a We do not claim that we have The Wnck of the Pa-ifɔ Mail Stro") true impression. In recent years reached our highest, ideals of much has been written and said civilization, no, iar from that:

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about Chinese civilization by re- We admit that it has flaws and Rig. No Tounge 2016.; Gross Ton- turned missionaries, tourists and shortcomings and that there are ang 4640; Daill in 1883; Now others, yet it is a sad fnot that most in ourcountry social ovila, political Engines and Builors 1895; Length of the people of the western world corruption, and moral decadence; 40ft in.; Bondth 44fe. 2iu.;. D pt still do not understand rightly for, the fact is that we, as other 291. 2in. as she now lies on ench what Chinese civilization is; inuman beings, also make mistakes liland, Taicha Group.

fact, some evon question whether and fail to carry out what we know The Cargo and Merchandise now there is such a thing as Chinese to be best. But we are also con-abid will also be offered for sale at civilization. Consequently, the scious of our shortcomings and the same time and place.

TERMS OF SALE. estimation of our civilization in are fighting against all kinds of Crab on fall of the liaminor. 3 some minds is too high while in evil with irresistiblo forces. Thie

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spoaking about China and her above statement. many parts tobacco is a staple Fung Chow Ling.............................

people is to arouse Christian crop. Certain proportions of Also a choigne for $15,000 has sympathy so as to advance is what China has boen in the past land are specifically set aside been received from Mr. Clay Kai aionery enterprise. In order to will marvelmore yet at what China for the production of tobacco Ming on behalf of the Chinese do so, they generally paint is to be. On account of the rich for local consumption-not for community, a list of whose names the dark side of the Chinose and practically untouched re- export, for Chinn exports no to: will be published at a later date. people, show corrupt institutions sources of the land and the SECOND FLOOR of No. 81, DES bacco-but just sufficient to last

mid the condition of utter help virility of the people one may newly completed with Lift and Luva- the community for the year. Even

lessness, Words from the en rightly expect a great future Lowes. or lips of tourists and travellers for China Chinese political GODOWNS in MASONS LANE in famina tine ond sees those plots of land still bearing the "weed,

Sane mon havo large feet, and re frequently suporficial because future, industrial future, odue good for suraga of Wines and othe and it is as natural to tho Chinesa farmer to grow tobacco sane women smail feol, Converse, they usually do not stay longational and religious future. All uncles, Rant moderate.

enough in the country to aequains the formal and external features as it is for him to grow the ly, boware of the small-footed themselves with her people, hoof our civilization may pass careal upon which he will live man and the large-footed women: ancient history, traditions, law. away with the time, but its during the your. Tobacco is

fundamental principles will exist That, broailly speaking; is. the testoins and habits. To be sure an absolutely necessary conn-" modity to the average Chinese, upshot of a statistical paper by A. there are those otlier than Chinese as long as thore is, humanity; themselves who have given some while pouce, justice and con- and the lowest coulie would often Marie and M. MacAuliffe bearing fair opinions about our civiliza scienco have been the keynote go without a meal than without on the relation between feet and his smoke at regular intervals sanity, which has just bean read tion, but such men are indeed of our civilization, greater peaco, DOWN No. Da, during his daily labour. to the Paris Academy of Sciences very low and fewer are those higher justice, and more develop

in sympathy with the people. ed conscience will be the keynote Apply The above facts are mentioned by Prof. Edmond Perrior.

Thus it is mainly due to nou-

of our civilization. merely to demonstrato how vitally

Out of a hundred normal men, representative and superficial important in China it is that the according to the report, eighteen lectures and writings that most of CHINA'S ENGLISH PRESS. Chinese should have cheap to-have small feat, and out of the Americans misjudge our bacco. During the past few years hundred insune men only twenty civilization. Through misunder One really encouraging thing in the great tobacco combines of the four base largo foot. The pro-standing and ignérance some have the situation of China is the hope- world have carried on a widely-portions for women are almost denounced our nation and people Jul spirit of its English press. increasing business of foreign-exactly reversed. Twenty-three made cigarettes from Chinese sane women out of a land rodas semi-civilized or oven without Unable to defond the old super- ciliousness with which the Empire | civilization although such judg. tobicco. This business has grown havo largo feot, and, on the ment has no truer, ground than still treats the outer world, and thore is a th such an extent that there are contrary, only 18 per cent. of men- the calling of all foreignors even admitting that plucos in North and Contral China tally deficient women have small "barbarians" by some ignorant paralysis in China's patriotism where ono might boliove himself feet. back in Bristol outside the factories The ancient opinion that a small people in China. Chinn to-day is just now," these foreign obser

a nation upon which the attention vera continue to find signs of ** foot is a beauty in woman is thus of the whole world is focussed, and progress in the highest circles In China the tobacco trade is proved sound. Even the Chinese the sooner she is rightly under- of the Government itself. In hind-to-month trida-that is, the may be justified of by reducing native trade. No man lays in a woman's foot you may increase stood the beltor for her and for all hard-pressed Manchuria, for in-

humanity.

stance, there is a riceroy "anxious stock; he morely buys in driblets her sanity. Hoine once sot lum-

From the very earliest time the above all things to do his duty." as he requires it. In Yunnan itself up as an authority upon the is the same, and the poorer the human foot. He said thai ho had taste for fourning was cultivated But he gets no support from short- province the greater is the value made a special study of feet in and has continued to be a dis-sighted Peking, which also re- sot upon ther tobacco plant. At general, first of the foot of the tinguishing characteristic of our fuses the resignation that he feels Chungking, the great commercial lessor quadrupeds, then, the feet Pooplo uninterruptedly through impelled to send in response to all its history to the presont such want of backing fron entropot of Szechwan, there is n of elephants, and finally the foet day. Centuries before Homer the central authority. The same large agency of the foreign tobacco of the women of Gottingen. But there existed in the country a experience befelt the viceroy companies, and an enormous busi-thon he had a grudge against Got literature which attests the very in Yuman. Nevertheless, ro Apply to Ross is expected to accrue if the tingen and gallantry was not his

highest state of intellectual attain nomboring that it was education. native tobacen is socured by the forte, so leine need not be taken and since then it had been that raised Japan, and seeing the INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO., foreign makers in any large jany, more soriously than the enriched till to-day very few tens of thousands of Chinese visi-Hongkong, 8al April, 1913. [159 quantities.

modern detractors of Chiengo.

Westerners who have mastered tors who go to Shanghai for the What the pouple will have to

our language have not echoed and one purpose of actual contact with say about the project, however, is

re-echoed sentiment that, untold the West, these expatriated quite another matter; and it is

trensures lie. hidden in the rich Westerners not only hold to their declared by travellers that if it

lodes of Chinese literature. It Iaith in the ultimate awakening of ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE. means dearer tobacco. disturb The fashionable craze of the unfolds the marvellous realna of the Chinese people, but regard. ances

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Chief Co0 THE ALEXANDRA

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JOHN THOMAS COTTON,

urging the people not to buy the tored a training home at Bow, in Chinese civilization-may also New York. foroign cigarotte, as the rumour the East End, happens to be the bo viewed through the moral OUR DIARY. had gaine currency that these Earl of Verulam's daughter. As characteristics of the poople, some cheap whiffs contained a certain a matter of fact, the peerage hus of which are rarely found in other amount of opinia and Yunnan supplied a good many recruits to races. In naming them a careful is well known as being one of the the profession of nursing in the observer will include in the list first provinces in the whole of last few years.

some of the prominent virtues, China to successfully stamp out Lady Esher's first-aid classes, such as dus respect to the old and the opium curso. How ridi-held ni her house in Tilnoy streat, venerable, ardent zeal in religious p.m. culous such an idon is is at once have given an impetus to the matters, contentment in one's lot, patent to anyone who knows movement, while the practical thorough training botoro ventur anything about the current prices interest in nursing institutione ing any task, love of work, grate- of opium in China; but the whch Queen Alexandra has re- fufnoss, optimism, patience, in-9.15 rumour was believed by the coupestely shown is also largely dustry, economy and others. The

on proplo, and in China those responsible for the hold which the moral code, which our great teach- Lady Lugard "At Home," 4.30 little things tell more than the vocation has taken on the minds er, Confucius, condensed from p.m. European can understand upon of women who are prominent wisdom and teaching of our Paper on "Steam Turbines" at the minds of the poorer classes. socially. Ono There can be no doubt, however, known society aurnes is Lady thing that concerns the re- Institute, 9 p.m.

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