SILK INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1942, Page 3

SILK INDUSTRY

NATIONALISATION IN CHINA. The Chinese Government will start nationalising the production and distribution of silk in 1943, making it a controlled commodity for export like wood, oil, tea, bristles, and minerals, it was announced officially not long ago. The Government abandoned a partial control of silk production and marketing in 1940’because of practical difficulties. The new regulation is beilieved due to the outbreak of war in the Pacific which has brought calls from China’s allies for Chinese silk, especially for parachutes. Chinese silk has been moving by air to India and overland by the northwest route. A conference is now being held in Chengtu to decide upon effective measures for enforcing the nationalisation programme. Silk production in Free China is centred in Szechwan Province. stated that the death rate among the wounded was 10 per cent., which is almost double the rate for the first world war. Another war prisoner, Joseph Tani ner, doctor in an ambulance company j attached to the 112th Infantry Division, stated: I “As a result of travelling along the . | bad roads. 90 per cent, of those seri- | ously wounded in the abdomen died I and 95 per cent, of those with chest wounds. Nearly all those with skull I wounds died.”