Prosperity? Customers Asked to Buy Alleged "Native"
Wares From Our Own Correspondent, Kiangchow, Sha., Fob, 6.
Everywhero there ara now native manufactures, bat they are the kind that seldom require new premises. Goods of various kinds are being produced for lod use in outd-the way corners. Many of these products are imitations of foreign goods, and "Support native industry" is the motte.
Spinning, weaving, knitting and kindred industries "are mooting native demands.
The improvement of a rough kind of delf ware is also becom: ing a big industry in the hills and goods are being manufactured on scale which promises considerable development of the industries concerned. What a contrast, to conditions a few years ago! This provinces is surely stumbling along Kiangannetion is po [the Path of progress despite many is pre- ai fakes and obstacles
of small tule my at te on lin teasier than it years. Ready money even if only Victims to the habit, and that allicials and gentry" are above suspicion, know of course that, the Governor and his own immediate friends give no. countenance to slipshod procedure.
Bot even the most vigorous officials find it no easy task to gmapplo with the conditions in the villages.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.