JAPAN IS OPTIMISTIC
DESPITE DEPRESSION
IN TRADE CONDITIONS
TOKIO, Sept. 10. (£>)—'While Jap
anese trade conditions during the
first half of the present year were
not all that had been hoped for, and
the industrial situation just now is
extremely bad, the authorities, in the
official report of the Department of
Commerce and Industry, state that
not pessimism need be entertained
for the future. The report shows
that during the six months 22 ar
ticles out of 30 chief exports of the
country increased in value over the
corresponding period of last year
and only eight articles decreased in
value.
The report states that raw silk
valued at 334,845,000 yen exported
during the first half of this year
shows an increase of 70,913,000 yen
■over, the corresponding period of
last year. Cotton cloth exports to
taled 199,647fi000 yen, an increase ov
er the corresponding period of last
year of 46,385,00 Oven.
Among exports which decreased in
value from the corresponding period
of last year are counted silk fabrics,
which totaled 53,71S,000 yen so far
this year, a decrease of 5,040,000 yen
from the year before. Silk waste and
floss silk exports totaled 11,150,000
yen this year, showing a decrease
of 1,284,000 yen from 1924. Marine
prdoucts, machinery, beans, buttons,
iron, and beer also decreased in ex
port value.
As to import, the first half of this
year witnessed an increase of 14 ar
ticles out of 30, compared with the
■corresponding period of last year, and
16 articles showed a decrease in
value. Among the imports which in
creased in value are raw cotton, to
taling 601,070,000 yen, showing a
rise of 56.20 per cent, or 216,568,000
yen, over 384,502,000 yen of the cor
responding period of last year. Wool
imports totaled 84,635,000 yen dur
ing the first half of this year, an
increase of 13,70 per cent or 25,728,
000 yen over a year before. Woolen ,
fabric imports this year totaled 35,
050,000, an increase of 8,421,000 yen
over a year before. Rice and bran
imports totaled 65,796,000 yen this
year, an increase of 64.40 per cent,
or 25,587,000 yen, over the corres
ponding period of last year. Beans,
bean cake and crude sugar imports
also increased in their volumes and
value.
The fluctuation in imports is far
larger than the increase or decrease
in exports, which is responsible for
the adverse trade balance. Silk ex
ports were favorable this year, due
to the continued active demand for
this class of goods in the United
States, and cotton fabrics and yarn
exports were also supported well,
despite the recent anti-foreign agi
tation in Shanghai and other parts
of China.
Rome Newspaper Suppressed
Publishing Erroneous Item
ROME, Sept. 10. (£>)—Reformers
who urge that newspapers ne for
bidden to print gruesome details of
crimes or sensational news, tending
to influence legal investigations or
trials, won a signal victory recently
when the Prefect of Rome exercised
the powers vested in him under the
Fascist Press Law to suppress an
important newspaper which asserted
erroneously that the perpetrator of
a sensational crime had been iden
tified.
An edition of the Tribmia, one of
Rome’s leading evening newspapers
was seized and the next day the pre
fect announced the suppression had
been caused by thepapeFs publica
tion of a statement that a criminal
who had brutally killed a little girl
had been found. This, the prefect ex
plained, was untrue and its wide
spread publication, he asserted, tend
ed to frustrate the ends of justice.
British Students To Fly
LONDON, Sept. 10. (/P)-Two uni
versity air squadrons at Oxford and
Cambridge for the training of a cer
tain number of undergraduates, were
predicted by Air Minister Sir Sam
uel Hoars in a speech recently.
There are a number of young men
there who are intensely interested in
aviation and who wish to learn about
the technical and- scientific side of
flying, he said, and there is no rea
son why a successful scheme should
not be established and even extend
ed to other universities.
War Depression and
U. S. Film Embarrass
Swedish Producer
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 9. (jP)—A
long period of economic depression
which followed the World War, and
which still prevails in Sweden, and
the importation of American films
are the chief reasons given which
compelled Albert Ranft, owner of
seven theaters in Stockholm and
Gothenburg, to put his affairs in
the hands of a committee of his
creditors. Ranft started in the the
atrical business 25 years ago as
managing director of one of the lead
ing Stockholm theaters and gradu
ally increased his influence until he
obtained control over a majority of
the theaters in Stockholm. For many
years his theatrical ventures were
successful. The after-war depression
which materially decreased attend
ances, followed by the importation of
American films created competition
too strong for the Ranft theaters.
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WAR OF SHELLS MORE
BARBAROUS THAN GAS,
SAYS FRENCH DOCTOR
PARIS, Sept. 9. (/P)—The war in
Morocco—for it must be recognized
as war now that Marshal Petain, who
is really the commander-in-chief of
the French army, has been sent to
visit the scene of action—has reviv
ed discussion in the Paris press
whether gas ought to be used in war
fare.
There seems to be no question of
the state’s right to use gas against
individual disturbers of the peace, as
the police have recently employed or
prepared to employ gas to arrest
criminals, locked in their rooms, with
out any protest being raised.
A prominent surgeon, Jean Lou^s
Faure, who sawr much service during
the World War, writing to the Fi
garo, says that the use of poison
gas is extremely mild “if anything
can be called mild in warfare. It
alone allows a military object to be
gained without excessive massacres
nd bloodshed. Men will hold a posi
tion to the last against explosive
shells but a few well-placed gas
shells will oblige them to evacuate
before the losses are heavy.
“Gas does but little damage. The
famous flood of gas at Prosnes, the
most fatal case of its use during the
war, hardly made more than 200 vic
tims, less than a few we’l-placed ex
plosive bombs -would have made.
“Men who have been gassed, how
ever sad their fate, were not. in gen
eral, greater objects of pity than
those who had been permanently
maimed, trepanned or blinded.
“War is a terrible thing, but if
we have to draw a distinction be
tween two forms of barbarity, gas
barbarism is less than shell barbar
ism. It is less deadly and yet more
efficient.”
4.7 BEER IS FAILURE
MONTREAL, Sept. 8 (£>)—Four and
seven tenths proof beer is recognized
as a failure by both wets and drys in
Canada after a three months trial.
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Crusade Seeks To Restore
Religion In U. S. Home Life
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 9. (/p)
—Restoration of religion to its place
as a factor in American home life
will be the aim of the first Christian
Family convention, to be held here
October 1 to 10.
The convention is sponsored by
the Christian Family Crusade, un
der the direction of Rev. William
Garfield Holderby of Chicago. Gov.
Ed. Jackson and U. S. Senators Sam
uel M. Ralston and James Watson of
Indiana head a state committee which
is arranging for local entertainment
ol delegates from all sections of the
country.
After the keynote of the convention
is sounded on the opening day with
pleas Irom men of national repute
for restoration of worship and reli
gious training in the American home,
‘he meeting will be divided into three
periods, of three days each, devoted
to consideration of the relation of
the American family to the home,
the church and the nation.
Division or the United States into
20 areas is contemplated by the cru
sade for continuation of the move
ment to be launched at the conven
tion, with specific campaigns to be
conducted in each of theareas to
further the mobilization of the na
tion in the family crusade.
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