The most up-to-date factory in France, and perhaps int europe, has, states 8 Paris correspondent, just been established hereby a Chinese, and all ite employees are young Chinese. The factory aims at notbiog less than the production of semi-artificial food, something like the famous nutritive pills of the late Professor Berthelot. The factory ie established on very solid ancial basis, too, with a capital of £80,000, all subscribed by hinese imbued with modern ideas, All the machinery is of Chinese invention and manufacture, and the raw material for the foodstuffs of the coming willenniom is imported from Chins. Thus the sons of Confacias, when they come to Europe, intend to give os a real awakening.
The factory has been founded by a young Chinese, Li Yo Ying, thirty years of age, who is an expert chemist, en-giveer, scientific sgricaltarist, and a for student at the Pasteur Institute. He is the son of " former Minister of States at Peking and came to France in 1901. After spending some time at the Agricaltaral Institate at Chesnoy, near Montargis, he entered the Pasteor Institate at Parie. Here be studied rotary subjects from a vegetarian point of view, and developed © number of formalins for improved and concentrated foodstuffs, for the production of ch he conceived the idea of establish ing a factory near Paris. Two years go he went to China to secure the necessary capital, and at once obtained a sam of £80,000, half of which was subseribed by men in Government circles. 'A company was formed according to Chinese laws, with headquarters at and Li Ya-ying then retarned to France to purchase the ground and establish the factory at Les Valléoe, near Paris. It covers a vast ares, and the machinery, ae it arrived from China, was rapidly put in place. Special workmen, twenty-four in number, all native Chinese, were brought over, and are now employed at the factory. The produots are extracted principally from the famous Soya beans, and mentary subst toanding. We are told that they in-dade milk, cheese, caffeine, oil, jellies, floor, bread, biscuits, cakes, sauces, and a variety of vegetables.
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