Comments on the Patched-up Peace: The Textile Trade Faom Our Own Comessroxoext London, June 27.
All the papers have published a great deal this week about the Patched-up peace in China between the Nanking Government and Gen-feral Feng Vu-hsiang. As indicated last week, everybody is relieved to notice the avoidance of civil war, but there is a certain amount of identical comment on the fashion in which this result has been reached. This is shown by the "Sunday Obss which states that the latest Chinese notion is sug-festive of a new fashion in wars, for it is reported that General has accepted £300,000 for himself and his troops to abstain from further war in China. Instead of seeing war made, as it seemed likely to be, one of the leading Chinese nation-the population can now go about its business undisturbed by guns. All the world has known for ages that war is the most unbusinesslike form of human waste. Tt has remained for the Chinese to put the matter of war on a commercial basis, The nation that is said to have first. used gunpowder very appropriately shows the rest of us a bright new scheme for doing without it.
The Overfed Poke The following amusing dog story taken from the "Daily Mail":—"Yang of Hoshigaura, winner of 160 prizes and many challenge trophies, had a humiliating experience at the Pekin Palace Dog Association's open show at the Ranelagh Club, Barnes. He left for the show ground after breakfast, with the complacence of a seasoned com-Detitor. It would have been better had he gone before breakfast, for a condition of the show is that dogs shall not weigh less than 51 or more than 10Ib. Yang wa ounces over-weight, and was thereby debarred from' taking his accustomed place in the ring!"
Lancashire and Japan I recently made inquiries of Sir Kenneth Dagald Stewart, the Chairman of the Lancashire Cotton Cor-oration, Ltd. with regard to the Operations of" the Eastern Textile Association, and I have received the following letter from him, which will probably be read with am afraid I have nothing fresh to tell You about the. the Wakiang Ri chow, have been inundated as a result of a severe flood. Thousands of homes have been washed away trid tans of thousands of people are {for the technical examination of pictures by modern photographic v1] processes. Any" retouching of old painting is readily detected, owing to the difference in trans. par ence between the old colours and the new. Each of the principal pi tures is being provided with a dos-sir, or set of records, comprising 'a full-size photograph of the whole, enlargements of the principal details, and X-ray photographs, which supply indisputable evidence' whenever the authenticity of a picture ig questioned. At present only 250 jctures have their dossiers. With allowance of only £24,000 a year from Parliament, plas admission fees, the Louvre authorities have hard work to make both ends meet. They can very seldom afford to buy any art treasure on the mar-Ket, and, but for gifts and legacies, they would be unable to add anything worth mentioning to the col-Yeetions. For the same season, the much-needed reorganization of the museum, recently begun, will occupy ten or fifteen years unless some generous patron of the arts comes forward and provides the money.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.