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Show CIGARETTES FOR THE CHINESE Washington, July 14. America has taught tho people of tho Chinese em-plro em-plro to smoke cigarettes. In a report to this government on foreign trade, Consul General Charles Denby described de-scribed the class of foreign markets which may be created by American enterprise and then supplied, the consul general Kays: "One of the most conspicuous ex amplos of such a market Is the demand de-mand for cigarettes in China. Ten years ago tho cigarette was an article used In China by a small number of people, chiefly foreigners. The Held attracted the attention of a i?ronp of American manufacturers who examined exam-ined into" it and decldPd to Introduce the cigarette to the Chinese people by American methods. Tho result Is that now tho cigarette 1? popular throughout the empire. |