CHINA’S AWAKENING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 895, 22 September 1910, Page 4

CHINA’S AWAKENING.

Some of the cities of China are developing at a marvellous rate. Shanghai is putting up factories and fouudaries, and is starting all sorts of new industries. It has silk filatures which are producing bales of raw silk for American weavers, modern flour mills equipped with Milwaukee machinery, and a cigarettefactory, owned by the American Tobacco Trust, and employing more than a thousand hands. It has eight great cotton mills with several hundred thousand spindles, and some which have eighty or ninety thousand spindles in a single establishment. In these mills over thirty thousand men, women and children are erupted, and they are spinning and weaving cotton quite as well as any of the American factory hands. Most of the mills are managed by Chinese foremen, who give some idea of how the Celestials expect to make their own clothing in the future. Shanghai affords an apt illustration of the awakening now taking place in China, and which is watched with interest by all European nations. «