It has produced one Minister of the Crown and several citizens © who have been prominent in public life, and its influence Is out of proportion to its numbers. Also it has not excited the animosity of the Burmese the way the Indian community has; the "Chinese are seldom. money: Tenders except in their capacity of pawnbrokers, and have shown tendency to'acquire land and to reduce the owner-cultivator to. the status of tenant, and the Burmese have no objection to their presence Jand to their dominating position in few professions in which they doubtedly supply the necdls of the public more eficientiy than any ther' community.
Of the imports from China Burma, silk was probably always the most important. Silkworm rearing is aga principles of the strict Bur udddhists, as it involves the ishing of life, and they were probably not sorry to Gnd in' their religion excuse for avoiding an occupation Fequiring more care and application than the easy-going Burman likes, and they preferred to buy their raw sill from China and weave it them= selves into the "brightly. coloured longyis which are such a feature of the national dress. Though artifeial has new become as popular in Burma as in Europe, the silk weaving: industry 4s still important and the trade in raw silk from. Szechuen ever the Jand frontier still continues.
At present there are ahunt 100 Chi-hose students studying in Germany, about half of whom are studying chemistry, machine building electro-technics with 4 per cent, stlending medicine lectures and Studying military science while the remaining {en per cent. are studying ational and social science, The first contract to be placed in connection with the London Pas senger Transport Board's £14,800 000 scheme 10 improve railway faellities in north-east London was placed son March 1. It provides for the boring tunnels for the extension of the Central London underground railway from Liverpool Street to Mile End.
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