It is a matter of scientific interest that the smallest shipment of any: substance which has ever been received by anyone in the world has recently arrived in America, The substance known as antineuritic vitamin, weighing approximately one three-hundred-thousandth of an ounce: was received by Dr. Roger Wiliams, professor of chemistry, at the University of Oregon, the latter november. Professor Wil-use it in his research work which he is now conducting: for the Fleischmann Yeast company, It is only in dealing with yeast that. such a small amount could possibly be of any use. The anti-neuritic vitamin was extracted from rice polish in Java and afterwards sent] to Amsterdam to be purified. Dr. R. R. Williams, who is a resident Amsterdam, became interested tthe substance and-forwarded a portion to his brother in America, The minute quantity which has been received contains enough vitamin for ten experiments on yeast, What the uninitiated would what happens to the yeast? inaugurated on the 16th instant.' The Companies' contracts are to terminate, we are told, on December 20, 1980, Another message in Kuo Min's same issue deals further with steps to be taken to remove foreign shipping from China's, coasts and rivers and increase the "facilities for Chinese shippin but this message is of a sort now too familiar to be worth reyroducing in full.
How much reality these reports we Chinese Ministers, when questioned privately, say that the public expect them." But to play up, to the public in this way Is a dangerous game. As a matter of plain common sense, What earth. ly good can it be supposed would b3 done by driving foreign ships off the rivers and cutting out the cable companies' None, but a great deal of harm, Of about 117,000,000 tons of shipping annually entering and clearing Chinese ports, some 20 per cent. is Chinese and the proportion fends to decrease. As for ables abroad, the recent combine in England between these companies and the wireless, is proof enough that the latter cannot displace tha cables, of which China has none and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.