Instructive Talk Hit by Development Given at Rotary Tokyo, Apr. 18. Glub Meeting Increased exports of Japanese butter, Father E. Gherzi, director of the milk and cheese, in the struggle to Meteorological and Seismological Sec-conserve Japan's foreign-currencies tion of the Siccawei Observatory, reserves, have resulted in heavy price who is known the world over for his increases and a shortage of supply work in the Far East during the past on the domestic market in recent 20 years, proved to be an excellent weeks. This lack particularly affects and humorous speaker when address-the foreign communities in Japan, to ing yesterday's tiffin meeting of the whom dairy products are an essential, Rotary Club at the Metropole Hotel, whereas among Japanese they are on he subject "Meteorolgy in little used, except in the case of milk. China."
Ever since the outbreak of the China Introduced by Mr. W. S. Wolfe, Incident, the Japanese Government president of the Shanghai Rotary has been asking farmers to produce Club, Father Gherzi said that so com-more Milk, butter and cheese for ex-prehensive a subject as he had chosen, port.- Since the outbreak of the Eurcould hardly be discussed in detail in Opean war, shipments abroad have the 25 minutes which were at his dis-risen by leaps ahd bounds. posal. Even on the single subject of But the increase in exports does not typhoons, he added, he could talk for account for the whole of the shortage. much longer than the time allotted to Milk drinking on the part of the local him, citizenry is becoming almost a fad.
Without wasting any further time, The new-rich workers in munitions Father Gherzi immediately proceeded firms, it seems, are squandering some to tackle his subject in such a man-of their extra money on milk. ner that it became intelligible even Some of the workers, it is said, to the laymen in his audience. There have taken to the drinking of milk are four types of air masses which every day. account for weather in the Far East, The shortage of milk, in turn, has the speaker said. Firstly, the Siberian in part been a cause for the shortage air mass which proceeded in a south-of butter. south-easterly or south-easterly or Milk producers and wholesalers face easterly direction and which is dry other difficulties. There is a shortage and cold; the tropical air mass which of feed for cows, of soda' ash for the comes from Indo-China, Burma and production of milk-bottles and of cow India and which proceeded in a herders and delivery-boys.—Reuter. south-westerly to north-easterly direction, being damp and warm; the trade wind which centred over the Pacific Ocean extending westward and which was not so cold as the Japan Concentrates on Siberian mass but cooler than the tropic air mass although not so damp;
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