The Chinese farmer has the ten dency to confine himself to raising tone crop and when this fails because of foods or drought, he has little Jeff to fall back on, Planting a fow dozen tung all trees where rice oF Wheat cannot be grown will not be a hardship to the farmer, but-may Be a great help in time of emergency.
Tung all 4s" to be purified and an attempt made to bring the quality to the standard of that in. other countries, The Chinese Vegetable Oil Corp, has a board of seventeen directors. Three of those are appointed by the Ministry of Industry, tone each from Szechuen, Muna Hupeh, Chekiang and Kuangsi and hine from shareholders or large subscribers to the corporation, hoped that the growth of the tung oil industry In Anhwei will make possible the opening of a factory in Wahu in the future, Ordinary rice ly between $0 and $10 a picul here at present, 'This is considered a good price, fair teo, for the former can make a' profit on his labour and this enables him to spend money in the city, "Business has been the up grade for some time. The river is very low, The dykes overy= where are in very good condition and the annual small repairs are being carried on.
Mr. K. Nishi, Japanese Consul General, is leaving for his new post Moscow on January 23. aecom= panied by Mrs. Nishi. "They will report at the Foreign Office Tokyo, before proceeding to the USSR.
Mr, John Hearne, Tsingtao's jockey has been invited to and leaves. for Hongkong on January 23, to ride in the spring meeting of the Colony, News has just come out that Afr.
Alexander, HIM, Vice-Consul here, has been promoted to the rank of Consul in Shanghat and that our old friend Mr, Kenneth Bumstead will be returning in his place. The transfer takes effect about the middle of February, Mr. George Bloom of Shanghai was here on a short holiday and is me tending to retire in si Quite number of Shanghai residents have ought homes here recently, for retirement, as Tsingtao has so much to offer that one eanmot find elsewhere in China and retirement at Home for the old China hand of limited means and China ways difficult,
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