The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-12
NEW TURN GIVEN ID
 BOYCOTT OF LAPS Seek to Stimulate Chinese
 Industries as Resort RATCTNC nE COTvTnN
RAISING OF COTTON
Efforts Being Made to Increase Mum. Ser of Spindles in Republic. Japanese Trade is Being Hard
 Hit by Tactics of Chinese

tne Associated rPeSS. )-. Chinese gOndS for China is the latest slogan in the new republic. It represents the boycott against Japanese goods in a modified form. form againt which Japan can of fer little objection.
 President Yuan Shi Kai's decree that there should be no boycott against Japan as result of the Japanese demands upon China, has had no effect In fact, boy cotting has become more marked, It is an affair wholly beyond the control of the Chinese government
 But the boycott has been given a new twist by the Shanghai Chamber of Com merce and other commercial organiza- tions which have started the "home made goods movement" The campaign is os- tensibly directed against all wares not manufactured in China, but the Chinese have shown a greater disposition to do without Japanese goods than the products of other nations.
 Cheap cotton goods and cigarettes have suffered more than other Japanese prod ucts, perhaps, as a result of the boycott. Japanese goods are sold in China through Japanese selling agencies. Consequently Chinese merchants have no trouble in avoiding the wares of the country against which they feel a grievance. The falling off in the sale of cheap Japanese cotton goods has been so marked that Japan is seeking amarket in India. commission recently visited that country and anothe Japanese commission is to go later.
 Efforts at Consolidation
 A delegation from the Osaka Chamber of Commerce visited Hongllong, Shany- hai and other Chinese cities in an effort fn Hat ha r. was announced that the feeling against Japanese manufa cturers was due to mis- understanding which could doubtless be removed by closer personal rela cons. Similar "get acquainted" movements have been organized by other Japanese com mercial associa tions, but apparently without marked success.
 Japanese shipping has been especially hard hit by the boycott. The ships of the Toyen Risen Kaisha, which formerly car ried several hundred Chinese in the steer age each trip, now seldom carry single citizen of the new republic. Chinese freight has also been diverted from the Japanese lines whenever possible Chinese coolies and Chinese commercial concerns of large influence are lending a hand alike in the boycott.
 One of the features of the home- de goods movement which may be of great interest to the United States is ths ef- fort to stimulate cotton manufacturing and cotton growing Japan formerly sup piled largely quantities of coarse cotton goods to China. The Chinese now hope to supply ths themselves and are striv- ing to interest capital in the enlargement of spinning works operating in Shanghai and Hongkong.
 No reliable figures are available concerning the cotton manufacturies of Japan. but 1t is estimated that the number of spindles In the republic varies from 900. 900 to 100000. Linn ited quantities of coarse cloth are made in nearly every province on hand looms. Coarse twist of foreign and home manufacture has been used in making this cloth. Printed cloth as well as plain. has been made-this printing having been done chiefly on second- hand presses purchased in Ja- pan. The wooden looms used by the primitive Chinese factories are mostly operated by hand and the output of each loom of this character is about three yards an hour. Machinery for ginning, spinning and weaving Is most " very crude and incapable of sup plying the finer grades of cloth now bought from England. the United States, France and other European countries.
 Imports of Cotton
 China imported about s105, ,000, 00G worth of manufactured cotton in 1912 Of this amount about ss7. 900 worth was coarse fabrics and yarns of sort which Chinese factories could produce The same year it is estimated China raised slightly more than 300.000 tons of native cotton, only a small percent age of the amount required by its own factories.
 Cotton Is growing in eight of the southwestern provinces and in the Yangtse province, but the cultivation is 20 clumsy that the yield per acre is small. Definite figures are not avail atle. but the highest yield per acre Is said to have been 176 pounds of cleaned cotton. Poor seed and bad cul tivation arc responsible for the short crop as much of the land is said to be admirably adapted to cotton grow Ing
 It is estimated that the amount of land in China available for cotton cul- ture is 27ooo.0oo acres. with a possible increase of 2,o00,o00 acres through ir- rigation.
 However, the successful extension of cotton manufacturing in China would necessitate a complete reorganization of its economic system About half of the central governments income is de- l yiveo from the import duty on manu- factured cotton.
 With the abolition of opium manu- 1acture the government endeavored to persuade poppy farmers to turn their attention to cotton This movement was not, as successful officials de- sired but the minister of agriculture Is endeavorng. through experimental farms, to popularize modern blows and make cotton more profitable.
 Since the presentation of the Japan ese demands upon China A popular de- fense fund of about S25.000, ,OO0 (gold) has been subscribed It is proposed to establish a bank with part of this fund which shall lend money to Chinese cotton mills and other industries which will make China more independent of other nations and keep its money at home.
 Dr. Wu Ting Fang and many other prominent Chinese are lending their support to this new industrial move rlent The Chinese honorary commer- cial commission. which has just com pleted tour of the United States. Is interested especially in inducing for eign capital to come to China and through its observation of American methods hopes to be able to direct Chinese industries into more progres sive channels.