With supplies of cocoons arriving from" Chekiang" and other cities Jaround Shanghai, all silk features here are {o resume operations this week, according to the Chinese press. The season's production this spring has been a little less than that of 106, "Extra-fine cocoons are selling Jat over $37 a picul, and ordinary ones $32 a picul. Many Matures here this season will try out the system of paying the workers according to work done, instead of by the day. fete 55 Len go. white Ca. throuch Reuter (CuNESE EXTERNAL LOANS, CE, May 3
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