Official Trip to Stimulate China Trade Interest Mr. Louis Beale, "Commercial Counsellor to H.BM. Legation; is proceeding to England towards the end of this month on an official visit.
It is proposed that he should make a tour of the Jeading industrial centres with a view to stimulating interest in the export trade from the United Kingdom to China.
During Mr. Beale's absence Mr. A.
George will act as Commercial Counsellor.
Mr. Beale will be accompanied by Mrs. Beale on his visit home.
In the neighbourhood of a quarter of a million records a month are turned out from the record press, a machine which uses two dies to manufacture the familiar "double-faced" recording. A label, a disc of paper powdered with resin and stone ground to tale-like fineness, is lapped on one die, a square of soft 'Aller placed, and a second paper dise and label' on top of the el, The press is closed, 90 fons of pressure applied, and upon its release, the latest version of melody is ready to have its edges polished prior to final Inspection. A mon-scratch surface results from the use of the paper ise.
One of every fifteen records is taken and subjected to a rigid wearing test to ensure long life, and freedom from flaws of every description—and by the scores, records provided with special Chinese word-texts are inserted into the familiar brown Paper covers and shipped out to retailers wherever Chinese music is in_demand.
Before long, hundreds are reading the words, and humming a new popular tuné—one more step in the evolution of modern music in' the Far East has been accomplished. And lest the westerners feel slighted, it is a fact that "Mothers" from the West arrive regularly with their recordings of the smartest orchestras ju Europe to Tend both East and West the joy of rhythms as up-tothe-minute as any to be secured in London or New York.
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