Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1910 — NOTES OF FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF FOREIGN LANDS.

Furniahed in Consular Reporta and Gathered from Other Sonreea. A limited stock company has been formed in Berlin by leading German industrial concerns 1 for the manufacture of flying machines of the Wright system. Wilbur and Orville Wright have conveyed all the rights for Germany to the new eompany. eral Electric Company of Berlin and New York is interested. Schools are being established in every part of the Chinese Empire and are being put in charge of educated Chinese who have studied in Japan, Europe and the United States, says consular report No. 3636. Popular education is a strong feature of the new movement in China for the general betterment of the country and its people, all tending toward a limited monarchy in place of the centuries o.u autocracy. << The new dealer’s annual license tax of $Bl.lO imposed at Aden may injure the sale of American kerosene in that busy city, and force the natives to reBume the use of candles. Next to cotton goods, kerosene has for years been the leading American export to Aden after driving Russian and Sumatran oil out of the market. —: —— One hundred thousand dollars Is to be spent for improvements in the service of the fire brigade in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In the effort to reorganize the rubber factories of Scotland on American lines American experts are being put in charge of the principal departments of manufacture. The salaries are much higher than the British standard. The industry turns out about 6,000,000 worth of rubber goods yearly. American competition aoroad is forcing the change, says our consul at Edinburgh. Liberia, West Africa, is energetically calling for American goods even among the 2,500,000 aboriginal popu-' laticn. " China buys $2,000,4)00 worth of for-eign-made printing paper every year. The American share is insignificant. Why? See consular report No. 3635. The Euphrates river will probabljbe bridged at the three points where the Crossing is now done by ferries. The first bridge will be constructed next spring. * Mining concessions are being snap-' ped up in Turkey. The new governor of Adana is favorably disposed to concessionaries.