Rationalization of Cotton and Silk Industries Wasih, Apr. 20.
Members of the German Industrial sion have arrived here from Chinkiang and are visiting the cotton mills and silk filatures. "Loc: industrial leaders, she are acting a3 hosts to the German experts, are showing the keenest interest in the Mission and have expressed their readiness to adopt feasible reforms leading to the rationalization of the industries centred in Wusih—Kuo Min, Tue Officer Administering the Government in Hongkong has provisionally and pending instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, recognized Mr, Tanichiro Yoshida' as in charge of the Consulate General of Japan in Hongkon.
Post thapes that handed over until there is peace in the country and no possibility of the money being used for anything but constructive purposes instead of destructive; or in any way putting it in the power of a ig for their own advancement, tions of the past three years, how: ever, continues our contemporary, have been such that we confess to tremors, and the appearance of Sir Miles Lampson and Mr, Teichman at Nanking with the avowed object of discussing further the abolition of extrality and, if Dr. C. T. Wang is correctly quoted, the handing over of the Boxer indemnity: just when this country is in the throes of the greatest civil war it ever seen, ennnot but arouse the gravest anxiety for the future, For three years blunder has been piled upon blunder, but a climax of this nature might well spell finis to h prestige not nut throughout
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