Season's Prospects Noi Good:
Distortion of British Strike Startling Results of Improve-
News Leads to Official ment Society Action and Fine From Ove OWN ConnssroNoest Frost a Conzsponcext Kashing, May 22.
Harbin, May 12
The silk crop is the topic of From the time of the British! interest in this section. Mulberry coal strike was inaugurated, the So-Teaves are sold forward—for} viet papers in Harbin, especially delivery year by year at from the Echo," entered into a cam. two to three dollars per picul. At} paign to show that the downfall of the crisis of the feeding _season, Great Britain had begun, distorting] those who have not enough leaves the facts considerably and adding for the ravenous worms, have to "news" concocted locally. For Pay exorbitant prices to get] these continued distortions of additional supplies. Speculators facts, the Harbin Chief of Police take advantage of this and some-has had the editor of the "Echo' times make huge profits on the carpet and fined him.
This year so many worms were On Sunday, May 9, every Russian diseased or for other reason failed Paper in the town published a tele-to eat more than half the usual Sram issued by the radio station quantity, that prices of the leaves and originally" circulated by the dropped to as tow as 20 oonts Nauen station in Germany, to the: yer pou! with few bidders. Rew following effect: ports to date indicate alow half! anon, May 8. Urgent radio tele or the us tial crop of cotoers gram. The British War Minister, The Silk Improvement Society General Denies, advises that the! had a branch here to demonstrate first division of the Continental Rethe new methods. Women serve Army has refused to carry out graduates of a school ear Soochow! the instructions issued in respect of were in charge. They had good jon against the—strikers." success, Their cocoons were large, None of the newspapers made in-white and firm, the country people quiries at the British - Consulate. who followed their lead also had and The "Echo" made capital of the good results, The old method in message by printing page-wide head-many cases producei a smaller ing to effect that the British cocoon, easily crumpled, $01 Army had become contaminated. times discoloured or light.
The news caused an enormous sensa-_ improved produce claims a high tion here and was capitalised by the price and this may induce mora) Communists as the beginning of the of the people to try it next year, end of the British Empire.
The experiment station cost about The "Harbin Observer," refrained $3,000 per yenr. If this district from publishing the message alte-adopted the inspected ens and! gether inasmuch as, in its Russian followed the new method, the form, it was difficult to understand, crop would be worth $300,000 However, the local radio station se: more than is mow realized. The} cured a repetition of the message, loss from ignorance and inertia is when its falseness became clear. immense.
The repeated message read:—Settlers on the waste lands accuse the native of being lazy, anon, Bay &—The British ut the medical mon report that War Minister denies any existence: of dissatisfuetion in the British: 8 large percentage of the tarmi fu this action of infected while Army in favour of the strikers, ete., work in the rice folds with ote. minute parasites that reduce vit This denial was apparently made Prompt treatment can cure but in respond to the attempts of the delay. is disastrous, The Chinese Soviet press in Bloscow to prove] are not as immune us some writers the existence of great. disvatisfacand observers intimate tion in the rank and file of the There was a time when Kashing!
British Army and the fact that Mr. was known to have a surplus of} Saklatvala had been arrested fo rice, but the number of junks attempted seditionary work, as_al importing this article of food, now ready reported by Revter's, has! pass the Custom House here in caused the Soviet agents to' work increasing numbers overtime.
The better grades of last year's The "Echo" not only made capital crops held over sell at from 12 out of all wireless messages re-to 14 dollars per picul. The imceived from Nauen and Russia, bat ported article can be had for 10 coloured and invented other news. to 12 dollars, The signs are The Chief of Police made it clear ominous for a food crisis daring, to the editor that s9 long az he rothe coming summer. The common mained in charge of affairs here, he people know they suffer, but! would nat. allow any propaganda they do not seem to realize just against a friendly nation. why it should be so The way is not smooth for Chinese industrialists inthe interior. A local paper mill equip-
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