The Government once had great expectations: by Keeping out Butter= field & Swire's sugar, which is made in Hongkong, and that from all other places as well, complete control of the situation could be gained. At Suntso and Shitau, both in the Punye Disiriet near Canton, and at Pingtam up the East River, three refineries have been erected, and 2 fourth in the south-western' section of Kuangtung is in process of con-
Were the eyes of the Government too big? Perchance in the long run this monopoly will be put on a pro table basis; it is by no means on that basis right now. The trouble fs that the Government put the cart before the horse, and thought of the refineries first, not giving much Intellectual thought as to where it was to obtain the raw material.
Last month the plant at Suniso ran entirely out of sugar-cane, and Ht could get so little that it is not qyorth white fung the boilers to get Machinery moving. Walyang, an East River county, is the centre of sugar production, but the Pingiam refinery takes about all that the Waiyang farmers can raise. 'The plant at Shitau will have to suspend operations. before long when' its valuable supply will be exhausted, Little hope is held out for the recovery of the silk industry. Few fof the features are open, and much Jot the mulberry crop cannot disposed of and most of the mulberry farmers will be only too glad to switch over to some other line.
They will have to be financed 30 that they can afford to pull up the Jgrowing trees, to ferlilize the sell, fand to plant their fields with sugar-Jeane. Government pays a very fair price for curie, any Fung Yul, head Jof the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry, Is going to see to it that these agriculturists are not lacking jin funds to make the change in Soviet Aeroplanes Over
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