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More recently Hossain has been lecturing to audiences in Europe and America on political, economic, and cultural relations between the Orient and the Occident. Years of editorial experience in Asia and Europe make his knowledge of the problems involved first-hand and authentic. As editor of the "New Orient," America's latest magazine of Eastern affairs, he is bringing before western minds the Oriental's point of view in art, religion, and letters...
Customs Inspector John Sterling, whose duty it is to comb for drugs all ships arriving in Manhattan from the Orient, paused beside the British motor-freighter Raby Castle last week and sniffed. "Opium!" said he, and set about with his crew of 40 to find it. They went down to the base of the forward mast, deep in the hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch is known to U. S. readers as author of a realistic super-novel of industrialism ("?& Co.", TIME, Jan. 27, 1930). In this venture into a savage Orient he shows a power of historical imagination you may admire but will hardly find surprising. A Night in Kurdistan is the kind of melodrama an artist sometimes makes...
...Herbert M. Marler, head of Canada's embassy to the orient, has been sent to China on a great diplomatic and commercial mission. It is entirely possible that, arising from his visit, Canada will sell 100,000,000 bushels of wheat...
...Behind the wheat deal is a great project, initiated by the Hon. H. H. Stevens, Canada's Minister of Trade & Commerce, for the granting of a $1,000,000,000 loan to China, designed to reinstate the values of silver all through the orient and finally to place China on her feet so completely that she will become a huge and profitable market for British, Canadian and American goods...