About a year ago we were told that American brewers, scared from their own country by the imminence of prohibition, prospected China as a field for fresh activities. Aad thereupon some of their nationals engaged in mission work here are believed to have said a few things not over complimentary. At any rate the matter went no further than the aforesaid prospecting, for it was found that, whatever foreign tastes might be, the bulk of the Chinese population knew nothing of beer and cared less, and even if their likings tended in that direction they would be unable to afford: the cost. Now after all that it is interesting to learn from a recent circular issued by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce that the str. Fushimi Maru on her last trip from America to the East took 2,000 boxes of brewery machinery, this, according to the Chamber, being the seventh brewery plant sent from Seattle to the East since prohibition became effective. Evidently, even if the masses in China are to remain unacquainted with the brewer, other people in the East are to have beer and that in abundance. The inner history of all this would be worth knowing, and some day we shall doubt. less get it. Japan may be taking the machinery, and if 80, are the Japanese brewers financing 's~ matter or do the big houses, formerly the pride of Milwaukee and elsewhere, have a quiet interest in the matter?
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