The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-28
WAR is PROVING
BOON TO CHINESE
For First Time Foreign Countries Are
Placing Orders for Factory Prod
ucts with Chinks.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The expor-
tation Of the products of Chinese fac
tories is made the subject of report
to the consular bureau by John r. Ar
mold, who is i'll charge of the Office of
the United States commercial attachc
at Peking. In his repart, just made
public, he says:
A curious development Of the war
situation appears in the report that
or the first time, so Ear as is definite
~ known, orders have been placed
rom n foreign country for the prod
lcts Of modern Chinese factories The
war has natural,y given a great i'm
petus to the domestic trade i'll native
manufactures of cotton goods, matches,
3oap, candles, etc, but now it i stated
shat several large orders have been
alaCed from Russia FOR the last three
items mentioned. In the case Of can
les and matches this may mean only
the re-eXport Of foreign goods, but the
alp is to be manufactured locally.
"a magistrate OF the district of
Yungcheng in Honan province has TAX
en- step toward providing that region
with practical educational system
by opening an industrial school The
Chinese name Of this institution, liter
ally translated, means certain living
school; that is, a school that assures
a graduate o. the means of earning his
living.
"The school is beginning with the
silk industry, a leading interest il that
part o. the province, but it is expected
that other branches will be added In
view of the primacy that China once
Possessed as a producer of silk, and of
/ the manner in which the position has
/ been gradually lost in recent years, a
movement Of this kind is especially i'm
/ portant. The great difficulty at the
start is to find competent teachers
The correspondent who reports the es
adjustment Of this institution refers
to the system set up by Americans in
the Philippines, and suggests that thu
government there be asked to assist
d" The purchase of eggs for establish
meats which preserve them in various
forms for export to foreign countries i,
becoming an important source of pros
pcrity tor man. districts in China
/ Extensive business is reported espe
ciallv from northern Kiangsu anC
Anhwci provinces. In the Pochow dis
trict Of the latter one factory employ,
more than loo persons, who buy III
10000 or 10000 eggs a day, and Their
are two or three factories in this on
town, which is not an especially impor
taut place. The price has gone N
rapidly, and is now five times what i
was Is years ago. Little or no effort
however seems to be made to cultivat
the poulty and egg business or to III
crease the output.
''Priecs of foreign goods in the prov
incc Of Szcchwau, about the head o
navigation on the Yangtze, arc soar
! ing. The usual sources o. supply fo
a number Of staples are now draine,
and the merchants are looking for ne,
: ones down the river Local judges b,
:, lieve it an excellent opportunity fC
the right foreign firms to enter tn
field there.
The Chinese Ministry of the int
rior is collecting statistics OF hosp
II tails, medical schools, druggists, dispel
saries and foreign-educate physician
II The inquiries are made through loei
II authorities.
II "Thc Chinese Young Men : Chr
II tiau association Of Shanghai has c
II abolished an employment bureau f,
II She special purpose of introducing
II foreign business men Chinese who a
H qualified for commercial office wor
| The need of such a bureau has bee
| felt for a long time, as the chanqir
| methods of Chinese trade and the d
n eroasing Importance of the comqrado
II who formerly had exclusive manag
| mont OF the Chinese staff of forcis
4 business Office, have greatly iucreas,
II the demand for such assistance. -