1918-01-08 — Page 9

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

GERMAN TROOPS',

CHANGING “ÁTTITUDE.

Japan's Forelga Trade. Trade returns for the firet

by the Britlah.

decade of December show an Revanied by Diaries Captured excess of exports to the tone of "Y21,708,009; exporta and im ports amounting to Y59 100,000 and Y37,400,000 respectively. British Beadquarters in Fracor, A compared with the last ten November 7.-Illustrations of the days of November, exports show a obanging attitude of many Ger- decrease of 18 per cent. due to a man soldiers toward the war are decrease in ebipments of cotton contained in captured diaries. yarn and cloths and copper. The Describing the departure of draft exports of raw silk and babataye men from a depot town the

abow mere or less increase. I author of one diary writes: porta show" a decrease of 8.3/10

"First battalion is to supply

per cent, owing to a marked drop draft of ninety-nine men. To in connigements of beancakes, conduct them toatation 300 iron rails and reda. The imports men are detailed, some with rifles of raw cotton and wool show to escort draft, others to act sa increase. The volume of trade! sinos the year opened amounts Pickets. In the afternoon car to 1,502.778,000 in exports and are ready and waiting for their comrades of the first cop- 1942,828,000 in imparts, show valescent company, who at last ing a balance of Y559,950,000 in favour of exporta, Babe Heraldive Bal what a sight it!

In front marohes a squad - Philippines* Trade._

of guards with rifle and another The total irade of the Philip pine Islands during the month of quad in the rear to guard German soldiers, cur brevétlaða November just ended, hass mount( ed to P26,094 607, an agines in field gray who-sa the newe- P19,240,344 of the same month papers relate in such beautiful last year, or a total incresse of language-ars joyfully going. P7,748,233, according to figures forth to destroy our enemies, given out at the Bares of Cas inspired by love of the Fatherland. The draft is ready. The band tome recently. Of the total last mooth, -the- exports amounted to strikes ups march, and the P16.272,381 and imports P10- clams begins to move. Guarda 122,246, as sexinet P10,300,382, are so numerous that there is ons

for every two men. Is it pot &! and P8,945,962, of last your, res- pectively. Among the articles of Poundal that our boye in field import, manufactured cottons Bed gray are led out into the field fron and steel manufactures show to fight and give their lives for the Fatherland like crimi- considerable increases, while in the exportation of the principal pals to the bangman, or worse, like cattle to the slaughter ? Is in products, the following are the smounta to which the various not enough that hours before-in shipments last month have to fact, as soon as the departure of talled: Coconut oil. P4,437,742 draft men is announced-men * agsipet F251,743. of the 20 forming part of the draft

abeuld be prevented from going i Fame month, last year: copra, into town by pickets every five P1,948,082 against P2 078,742; hemp, P4,888,553 geinar yards in every direction. No, we P3,930,115; maguey, P352 164 at sisa endure the shame of | being escorted to the station by se against P163 545; Boger, P1.410.539-ainet P2,041,849; guarda,

"Do not the beautifal lying cigare, P1,359,344 A8 against stories of our German papers P517,913; cigarettes PLO 884 88

tobacco place our brave lade in feld grey, against P5,918; and products, P353 879 as against who for love of the Fatherland P139,956. The amount of gold fight and destroy the enemy, in s exported last month totally false light when such weighed 6,859 ounces, valued at thinge as this happen? Free P200.641 sa against 6,483 ounces sacrifice! Indeed!'

ballion

during the same month last year, valued at P187 499,- Manta Daily Bulletin.

Another diary related how the men of one company refused to obey the orders of their lieaten- ant and only did so when the Vegetable Wax Trade. An industry of Japan which captain declared he would have has made remarkable progress in one man in every four shot onless recent years is that concerned the orders were obeyed. An with the extraction of vegetable interesting tribute to the high wax, which is coming into grester morale of the Belgians in cocopied demand on foreign markets. The territory is contained in Brother output has been gradually in diary. The author on September creasing, and now stands in the 6 wrote:

Yesterday we had a long neighbourhood of Y.1,700,000, or about $850,000 per year. The discussion with people on whom work of extraction is being or we are billeted, Belgian refugees. ganised on a larger scale. The The old mother and the eldest principal regions of production are daughter of twenty-two bad a in the Island of Kyasbo, especial- long debate with Franz and my ly around the city of Fakaoka, self about war and peace. It is which secounts for nearly half strange that these people, whose of the total output. The product hesrth and bome the British have is used abroad principally in shelled to rain, who have been the manufacture of polishes, evocated by the German military pomade and soops, and in dress authorities because their lives. ing leather. Most of this veget-were in danger and who have stie wax is derived from the fruit bad a boase allrosted to them kernels of a tree peculiar to Japan, bere, are wishing sad hoping which begins to fruit at about 15 that the British will yet liberate beara Belgium and be able to drive "as years, and sometimes heavily when it is over 100 years Germans out, old. It rerchers height of 20 to 25 When we explained to the feet, and produces from 30 to 150 Rirl that we held our lines here pounds of note anouilly. The for three years while the British

had definitely hoped to breaki best wax is made from ants that bave been kept over the winter, through our front in 1917, and sad, generally speaking, the bad only ran against a brick wall, quality of the produes improves and declared that the British with the age of the nut. The would not break through, she wax is extracted by crashing and said, shrugging her shoulders: fteeming the nate, and then sub 1917 ia zat over yet another jeoting the mass to pressure. A four months remain," "

second wax is secured by represe

ing. One workmen can handle about 150 poinds of raw mass in

day, and thie producea about

18 pounds of wax. The crude

Alleged. Big Embezzlement, "The palio trial of twe Formosan

wax, which solidifies at 50 Chinese, father and son, who are degrees, is cast into round moulds accused of embezzling over a dollars from their of a little more than a pound million eaob. It is next refined, the employers, Mesra, Samuel and process used being a traditional Co., & British firm of Shangbai, one and peculiar to Japan. It is was resumed as the Nagasaki mixed “with wood er cha coal, District Court recently. Two! ah and water, thoroughly boiled, witnemce from Shanghai were and dropped into cold water, no heard, vis Mr. Kikuobi, legal! as to form what are called way adviser of the plantitis, and Mr. flowers. These are taken out and Yamaguchi, who is in charge of exposed to the sun for about 20 the Nippon Zaten Esiska's days, when the process of boiling, warehousing department there. making the flowers, SED NONEing The accused again admired;

The wax is then practically all the charges brought

a third time, and the best againstthem, but an adjournmert lify taken off the top while it was ordered to enable one of the ten' adition. partnere in the Shanghai firm 10 Taited States Commerce Reports appear Nagasaki Press,

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