Last year the Canadian Pacific ships won the silk-carrying honours from six competitive lines far this year they have carried the bulk of this cargo from the Orient to this coast. Figures just announced give a.good idea of the enormous value "of silk cargoes The estimated value of October's shipments of silk $56,178,000. No big liner crosses the Pacific eastbound with less than 700 tons of ilk, statistics show.
The exclusion or limitation of Orientals isa British Columbia issue that is either dormant or liv. ing with full force, Nothing ha deen heard of the thorny question of late but in Victoria the Oriental ion League is persistently quietly, in search of solutions. "The League now proposes refund of the $500 head tax to such Chinese as are willing to be deported. It is claimed that many Chinese are eager to leave Canada. The provincial and Dominion governments are being urged to adopt this course.
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