Hankow, Sept. 3.
A reporter of the Haħkow newspaper "Ta Kung Pao" visited the summer resort of Kuling in the fighting zone of Kiukiang on August 27 and stated in his paper yesterday that he found over 100 foreigners and about 10,000 Chinese who for several weeks have been cut off from the outside world, Although suffering from shortage of-food, they are otherwise in good health, the "Ta Kung Pao"
Trans-Ocean. discovered by Mr. Shizuka Miyakoshi, a Japanese science student Miyakoshi, who has applied for a patent, spent five years in experimentation before perfecting his process.
His artificial leather, he claims, is by no means inferior to real leather, while the cost of production is far less.
Plans for the use of Japan-produced substitute materials in the manufacture of 758 passenger carriages and 7,000 eight cars have been drafted by the stry of Railway The bronze formerly used in passenger carriages will be replaced by pig iron, cast iron or bakelite.
instead of Oregon pine or South American timber, Japanese wood will be used, while hand-straps will be made of chemically trested fibres instead of leather.
Paint formerly imported from China be replaced By Japan-manufactured paint.—Reuter.
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