London, Oct. 3.
The Far Eastern conflet is serious ly affecting Ulster spinning factories, China was a heavy purchaser of the material, and last year bought £456,000 worth of the cloth, which was re-exported to the United States, The closing of the port of Shanghai was a hard blow to the industry, and the Ballymena factory will dismiss nearly 1,000 employees a week from to-morrow.
Two hundred weavers have already been dismissed from a factory In Belfast—Havas.
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