Britain Gives Notice of difficulty encountered in handling sie {in the form of cocoons, a Japanese 4clentist placed a number "of silkworms which were in the stage where they had to begin spinning, on a flat tray, to see what they would do. Along the edges of the tray he spret fan electric current of low voltage. This prevented the worms from crawling out, After searching for an hour for suitable place to spin, the silkworms inning on the They continued until exhausted and entered employed in the. manufacture of The method has the further Advantage of reducing the time required for spinning to only two oF three days as compared with a week
tion, {nthe ordinary method of produc-In this connection it is interesting to note that Japan is intent of keep ing her supremacy in sill production, land if she cannot do so with natural alk, expects to do so by developing her' artificial silk industry. Accord-the total this year will amount to 210,000,000 Ib, " This will her closest rivals.
trainment of this distinction, will not be without its There is already a. great over-production of rayon and prices are very near cost. Asa matier of fact the mushroom-like growth of Japan's rayon Industry {s proving disadvantage than an advantage—suicidal in some cases—and there has been an outery for Government intervention to curtail production.
But this has mostly been from the smaller manufacturers. Members of the powerful Rayon Association are ut for a fight to the finish and convinced that if the government oes not intervene the smaller companies, which they regard as cancers to the industry, will soon be wiped out. The Association. is, therefore, advising its members to refrain from attempting to force prices up through restrielion in production.
Merger of News Associations One effect of the sudden and untimely death of the late Mr, Takejiro 'Tokonam!, Minister of Communications, tas' been to retard negotiations for the amalgamation of the two large news agencies, the Nippon Dempo and the Shimbun Rengo. It reliably understood that Mr. Tokonami had, less than a fortnight before his death, promised to act favourably on the merger. Now the negotiations must be started all over again this connection it is interesting to note that the Shimbun Rengo is il for the amalgamation while the Nippon Dempo 1s deadly opposed to an "o", that i, Manchukuo, as most newspapers do, reveals the ignorance of such Journals, he said.
The country, Manchoukuo, was in existence as far back as in 1600 A.D, according to Sir Reginald. As in the case of India, Persia and Russia, the adopted their own method English, in taking The people of Europe have the wrong idea that the Japanese changed the name of Manchuria to Manchou-Kuo when as a mater of fact it was they who changed the name Manchou to Manchuria, Sip Reginald said. The Japanese added the suMlx "kuo" or "independent nation" to Manchou but this also is nothing "new, for Manchuria was Manchoukuo as fat back as in 1600. This word was then in use as is attested by ancient documents.
Sir Reginald is at present in Manchoukuo, gathering material for a Rew book he is writing on the ancient history of the country. He said his book would cover the period from about 1600 to 1644 during the Years just before the Manchus enter= ed China. Little is known in Europe of this period in Far Eastern history.
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