The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-29
CHINESE INVASION
 OF EUROPE BEGUN Wealthy Chinaman Starts In
 dustry in Paris ToULON SCHOOL STRIKE Pupils Rebel Against III-Heated Class Rooms--Last Census of 1906 Just Completed = State School
 masters. Win Case
ToULoN SCHOOL STRIKE

Paris, January 2s.-(Special. )-The Chi
 nese invasion of Europe has begun but
 this news is in no way connected with
 the much feared yellow peril. An inva-
 sion 1t is, indeed, but very peaceful one | Supplied with capital of s4o0,0Q0, raised
 in his native country, Lii Yu Ting, young Chinaman, who is an expert chemist,
 graduate of the Pasteur institute in this | city, and son of a former Chinese secre-
 tary Of state has come to France and has actually built the most modern and up-to-
 date factory this country has ever seen.
 None but Chinese will be given work at
 the factory, which is to turn out secret | form of concentrated food, somewhat on | the order of the late Professor Berthe- l lots nutritive pills. Not only are all the
 factory hands to be Chinamen, but every
 piece of machinery has been invented and built in China, from which country all the
 raw material is also to be imported.
 | u Yu Ting came to France just ten
 years ago, and. while studying at the Pas teur institute he invented and improved 1 a number of formulas for concentrated food, with which he expermented on himself and friends until convinced of his success. In 1909 he went back to China to raise the necessary capital, and In a very short time succeeded in raising S400,- 900 among his fathers influential and wealthy friends. A company was formed, according to Chinese laws, with headquarters at Tient- sin, and Ii Yu Ying then returned to France to purchase the ground and es- tablish the factory at Les 'Valees, near Paris It covers a vast area, and the machinery, as it arrived from China, was rapidly put in place. Special workmen, 24 in number all native Chinese, were brought over, and are now employed at the factory The products are extracted principally from the famous Soya beans, and the amount of allmentary substances extracted is astounding.
 A curious strike has broken out in the schools of Toulon.e The pupils of the Rou- viere Superior school surprised the city authorities by issuing the following man ifesto: "The pupils, annoyed because their demand on the subject of stoves has| not been acceded to, propose to come out on strike by way of protest. They Will remain on strike until the class rooms are properly heated.
 The scholars In the urban and subur- ban schools promptly Joined in the movement. In manifesto they de- clared that through lack of stoves they took cold and suffered from rheuma- tism. and bronchitis. They announced their intention of making common cause with the pupils of the Rouviere Superior school. The manifesto adds: we shall hold meetings every day. Then we shall see whether these gen. tlemen of the mayoral offices will condescend to listen to 'us. Are they themselves not warmed at the expense of the ratepayers? Why should not we be kept warm with the taxes paid
 by our parents? Comrades, unite. As- sert your claims It Is a long time since stoves were promised us Union is strength"
 The strike was declared and affects 11,000 cholars of both sexes
 The last census of 1906 which has only just been compiled, gives some remarkable figures regarding female labor in this country. Within the last 40 years the number of women work CTS in France has almost doubled. ris- ing from a little over 4,500,0O to near ly 7,500,000, an Increase of 65 per cent, whereas the figure for the men has gone up only "A per cent. from 15,- 5O0 900 to 13,000,000. The increase in female employment Is noticeable chief
 ly in trades and manufactures. The number of French women in business rises steadily every year. Regarding the liberal professions, evact compar- isons are possible only for the last decade. In that time the number of
 women artists and writers has in- creased by 22 per cent. that of wom- en actors by 21 per cent, and that of women employed in public offices by 1G per cent.
 In 1906 the active population" of the countrty-that Is to say, excluding children, women having no occupation save that of housewife, and all per- sons living solely on unearned in- comes, pensions. etc.-numbered 20, 750,- 900 souls. of whom less than two-thirds were men and over one-third women. Agricultural pursuits accounted for $500, 900 and nearly 3,500,000 women. Nearly 4,750,000 men and over 2,500,000
 women were employed in trade, and l., 300,000 men and not quite 100000 wom- en in the liberal professions and pub | lie services.
 In domestic service and women out
 numbered the men by 77O.00O to 170,- | 900. The totals show that female la | bor constitutes 39 per cent of the | working population of the country Tho | total number of the latter has risen from 15.0O0.o0O to 10000, 900 in 40 years, | the proportion of workers compared with the total population increasing | from 40 per cent to 53 per cent. All
 occupations have augmented except | that of dmestic service. which employs | under 100000 hands. instead of 1,250.-
 900 40 years ago. Trade employment | has nearly trebled and that in manu- | factures and the liberal professions | gone up about 75 per cent. The total
 augmentation Is to vely great ex-
 tent due to the increase in women
 workers. who now form more, than
 third of the French working poptila- | ton. The judgment of Rheims has been con- hrmed by the court of appeal, and the
 state school masters have won their case
 against Cardinal Lucon. This is the af- 1 fair: | When the bishops of France issued their
 pastoral letter condemning number of
 text books used in the public, schools as
 destructive to religion. the Sohoolmasters'
 association took umbrage, and Archbish-
 op of Rheims test case His emi- hence was fined 300 francs by the civil i tribunal of Rheims, but he lodged an ap-
 peal. The higher court has upheld, the finding of the civil tribunal, but gives other reasons for it's finding. It Is now
 held that the pastoral letter was libe- ous, and that each of the signatories is 1 liable. The matter cannot stand where 1t is, and a further appeal will be made