The Manchoukuo Government has added ten more commodities to those whose export is Prohibited except with official permit. These are: soya beans, peanuts, perilla seed, bean oil peanut oil, perilla oil, castor oil, wild silk (including cocoons and wa: hessian cloth. and hemp thread, cord and rope).
It is stated in Tokyo that the main object of controlling the export of these goods is to restrict their exportation to the other' yen-bloc coürtties (Japat and China) and thereby cause greater export of them other countries; in order'to acquire {ore} n currency and to improve Mancpouküo's position in her international accounts, as she had r large unfavourable balance in last year's trade.
AZ the Japanese yen in Shanghai is quoted at "about 9d, it is stated here, Manchoukuo's exports to central and southern China enable importers in Shanghai to gain éxorbitent profits. Therefore it was felt necessary to find means of adjusting the prices of Manchoukuo products exported to central and southern China.
The export of castor oil is td be restricted because increasing quantities of the oil obtained from imported castor seed have been exported. Wild silk has been exported chiefly to Japan ahd China, but there is a growing demand for this product in Germany and Italy for use in the manufacture of automobile tyres. As these outlets are more advantageous, it will be exported mainly to those countries instead of to yen-bloc markets, The export of hessian cloth and hemp thread and rope is to be restricted for the purpose of fostering the gunny bag manufacturing dustry in Manchoukuo. In line with this, the export of textiles made by mixing hemp with imported jute and China hemp will be prohibited tive methods which give employment tê û lao number of workers This ice business is a very old trade, and has been described by foreigners who visited Peiping a century or more ago, but it actually goes back much earlier than that.
The process is as simple as it is effective. First of alla large section of the ice is marked off with a pick in lines making rectangles of about four by two feet. Thereupon men with ice-picks move along these lines working their picks up ana down in unison, until a block has been cut off. Other workmen pull these up out of the water on to the ice by means of long poles with iron hóoks at the end. The blocks are then cut in half.
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