Experts Now in Japan to Visit Shanghai Shortly Osaka, Apr. 30.
Mr, Cheney, chairman of the American Silk Classification Committee, who had, owing to illness, postponed his departure, arrived in Yokohama to-day in the Dollar Line steamer President Jefferson. The conference of experts, which has been held every day since April 1 will end this week, after which' the committe wil visit the filatures in Nagano and then those in Nagoya_and Kyoto, Me. Cheney and the other members of the committee are leaving Kobe for Shanghai on May 16, in the Dollar Line steamer President Lincoln, May 1.
At Yokohama, to-day, the Japanese and Americans on the Silk: Classification Committee devoted' the whole of the morning to consideration of the methods of testing. the evenness of raw silk. A Japanese expert explained the Japanese methods of mechanical testing and visual inspection.
'Mr, Cheney, chairman of the American Silk' Classification Committee, who arrived yesterday, participated in the conference Reuter.
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